About Us
Healthy Land & Water (HLW) works with community, industry, and government to deliver innovative and science-based solutions to challenges affecting our landscapes, waterways, and biodiversity. We help people understand the values and condition of South East Queensland’s environment so we can ensure the sustainable use of our natural environment long into the future. We believe that maintaining healthy landscapes and waterways is not just important for wildlife and ecosystems. A healthy environment also supports a vibrant economy, strong livelihoods, great lifestyles and the happiness and wellbeing of the community. Through our work, we encourage people to examine and change their behaviours for the benefit of the natural world and for the people and places we love.
The opportunity
Play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and delivering Healthy Land & Water’s strategic priorities through effective portfolio management. Working across the organisation, you will partner with leaders and teams to manage the portfolio pipeline and strengthen portfolio management practices. You will drive robust governance, performance monitoring, financial oversight, benefits realisation, and risk management, while providing clear and insightful reporting to executive and governance
forums.
This role is ideal for an experienced portfolio professional who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about translating strategy into measurable outcomes. You will have the opportunity to build organisational capability, champion continuous improvement, and help ensure Healthy Land & Water delivers meaningful and sustainable results for the environment.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing the portfolio as an integrated set of programs, projects and activities selected, prioritised and balanced to deliver HLW’s strategic objectives and portfolio outcomes.
- Applying fit-for-purpose governance, including clear decision rights, escalation pathways, approvals and accountability for portfolio-level outcomes.
- Monitoring and reporting on portfolio performance, including strategic contribution, benefits, delivery health, financial position, risks, dependencies, resource capacity and required actions.
- Supporting portfolio strategies and opportunity development by testing strategic fit, expected benefits, value contribution, scope, funding, resourcing, risks and delivery feasibility.
- Collaborating with Program Leads, Market Engagement, Finance & Assurance and other enabling functions to manage the portfolio pipeline and recommend sequencing, prioritisation, and trade-off
decisions.
- Supporting portfolio financial planning, analysis and forecasting to align investment decisions with strategic objectives, available funding, and organisational priorities.
- Tracking benefits, value contribution and resource utilisation to inform portfolio balancing, affordability, and long-term planning decisions.
- Identifying, assessing, responding to and escalating portfolio-level risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints that may affect strategic alignment, value delivery or delivery
continuity.
- Providing input to portfolio risk governance, controls, and assurance matters for the Executive Leadership Team and Board’s consideration.
- Promoting continuous improvement and mature portfolio management practices that strengthen decision quality, data integrity, delivery governance, and organisational capability.
- Sharing lessons learned and practical guidance to improve planning, prioritisation, reporting and benefits-focused delivery across HLW.
About you
We are looking for someone who shares our vision to lead the change that will deliver an environment for future generations to thrive. To be successful in this role, you will have all or many of the following requirements:
- Ability to meet portfolio-level demands, including senior stakeholder engagement, while ensuring that project and program delivery structures are sufficiently mature and effective in delivering performance, visibility and accountability.
- Ability to set a clear sense of purpose and direction that achieves organisational goals and connects others.
- Ability to effectively utilise and interrogate data to inform decision making and measure impact.
- Strong on-ground project and program management experience (including complex multi-year arrangements) with a demonstrable track record of delivering within scope, budget, and time.
- Strong understanding of, and ability to collaborate effectively with corporate support functions including finance, IT, sales/marketing, procurement, governance, and risk.
- Tertiary qualifications in either Business, Engineering, Environmental Science, Project Management or relevant field.
- Professional qualifications in project management, or ideally, program and/or portfolio management.
What we offer
We’re a diverse team of experts, who enjoy sharing knowledge and learning. We recognise and celebrate our people and teams for affecting real and innovative change in our communities. We value integrity, collaboration, care, innovation, and courage. Some of our benefits include:
- Flexible working arrangements
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to
support your mental, nutritional, and financial wellbeing
- Novated leasing
- Annual individual professional development
budget
- Annual life & wellbeing reimbursement
- Paid Birthday leave
- Monthly staff social activities and events
- 3 days paid Gifted leave over the holiday
period
- Purchased leave
- Cashbacks and discounts via online store
Healthy Land & Water is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), and we strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.
Applications close midnight Sunday 2 August 2026.
