• Work with Australia’s leading environmental organisation and contribute to securing a protected, healthy and vibrant natural world.
• An ongoing permanent position with a salary of $85,298 salary per annum, plus 10% superannuation and great working conditions.
• Come and experience our award winning culture for yourself!

The Organisation

The Australian Conservation Foundation is Australia’s national environment organisation – over 700,000 people creating a world where forests, rivers, people and wildlife thrive.

A handful of people formed ACF 50 years ago when mining first threatened the Great Barrier Reef. Now the ACF community has grown into a powerful force for nature. We bring together people from community, government and business.

Our community advocates against pollution and destruction, and for our living world. We hold decision makers to account. We champion big ideas, and find common ground with unlikely partners.

We love and protect the web of life right across our continent, from the Kimberley to the Reef, the reef down the Great Dividing Range to Tasmania’s forests.

People power our campaigns. We are proudly independent, non-partisan and funded by donations from our community.

The Role

In recent years, ACF has made a significant investment in its research and investigations capacity to punch through the opaque and seemingly intractable threats to our environment. Our Environmental Investigations Unit works with ACF campaigners, policy experts and the media team to develop and execute long-run primary evidence gathering about environmental damage, corruption and mismanagement.

ACF has begun testing the concept of crowd-sourcing investigations solutions - using technology and people power to expose environmental harm. The successful candidate for this role will be taking the reins on the project and will be involved in the process of product development (working with consultants) as well as with the rollout of pilot/s to test the scalability of the product. The role will involve forming productive relationships with our community of participants, motivating them, and communicating actively with them throughout the process.

The role will also involve your own investigative work. It will involve cultivating networks across business and government, sorting and analysing data, conducting field investigations, coordinating technical assistance, and pushing regulators - all with the aim of exposing the root causes of damage to the Australian environment. ACF’s Lead Environmental Investigator will mentor the successful candidate in NGO investigations and they will ultimately take on a small caseload alongside the crowd-sourced investigations work.

Your Skills

This role will suit a community minded person with a strong investigative, research and primary evidence gathering background.

Our ideal candidate will be a strong communicator and an experimental problem solver capable of building and leading a community of participants. They will be self-starting, attentive to detail, persistent, courageous and strategic.

They should also be able to get across cutting edge data and technology and understand how it can be wielded in an environmental context. A tertiary qualification or trade certificate in investigations, journalism, law enforcement or similar, or at least three-years of relevant work experience, is preferred.

If this is you, we want to hear from you! Don’t miss this exciting opportunity.

Apply now!

• Submit your application including a cover letter, a resume and a brief address of the Key Selection Criteria in the Position Description combined in 1 document (word or pdf) to Annica Schoo, Lead Environmental Investigator, via our website by the close date.
• View the full Position Description attached below and on our website

Applicants may be contacted to progress to the next stage of recruitment prior to the close date, so get in early! We want to hear from you!

ACF is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We actively encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from CALD backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ people, people with disability and others who have diverse experiences of our world to apply for this opportunity. Applicants must have the right to live and work in Australia to be considered for this job.

As part of ACF’s recruitment process, a criminal background check will be conducted.

We request no agency contact please.