About the Role: Our team in Tasmania needs an Extension Advisor who will work closely with dairy farmers and regional networks to ensure engagement with Dairy Australia's Research, Development and Extension programs.
As an Extension Advisor, you will encourage participation in events and foster opportunities to discuss emerging issues across regional areas, supporting the facilitation and delivery of capability building.
Your experience in planning, evaluating and reporting, combined with technical knowledge of dairy feedbase, nutrition or agribusiness, will support your success in this role.
You will bring strong facilitation skills to support farmer led discussion groups and deliver key objectives.
The ideal candidate is open to exploring issues impacting farmers across Tasmania and the dairy industry broadly, and finding available solutions.
This opportunity is a fixed term contract until December 2026.
Our Ideal Candidate
We believe in equality and treat everyone with fairness, consideration and respect. We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds.
* Degree qualified in agriculture, environment or equivalent, or extensive knowledge of the Australian dairy industry.
* Demonstrated experience working with farmers and groups of farmers, including delivering information and programs.
* Strong communication skills.
* Understanding how technology can make an impact in extension and using our CRM (Salesforce) to promote events and capture data that will guide and support our programs and innovation.
About Dairy Australia
Dairy Australia provides services that benefit and advance dairy farm businesses and the industry. These services deliver value by enhancing farm business management, supporting farm employment needs, driving herd and feed innovation, managing climate and environment, promoting Australian dairy and commitment to sustainability, supporting policy development, growing international markets and responding to critical issues and events.
Vision and Values
At Dairy Australia, our vision is to be leaders in shaping a profitable and sustainable dairy industry. Our values include:
* Farmers First - Farmer needs guide our purpose.
* One Team - We work together to achieve great things.
* Innovative Thinking - We embrace new ideas and learning as we go.
* Decisive Action - We make informed decisions and move quickly to implement.
About Your Work Life with Us
We aim to provide benefits that promote the overall wellbeing of our employees. Joining our team will give you:
* A flexible working environment.
* Being a key member in our small supportive and high performing team of experts in their field.
* A caring and innovative culture.
* A fully maintained vehicle.