Park Ranger

Description

Protect, manage and restore ecosystems and landscapes, and enhance them via appropriate management and conservation, promote public understanding and awareness of the natural environment and help to develop and implement appropriate policies to achieve these objectives.

Tasks include

• Implements policies and organises activities in designated parks and other areas to conserve and protect natural and cultural heritage
• Participates in management planning by providing environmental information and making inventories of plants, animals and items of cultural and heritage significance
• Constructs, installs and maintains park assets such as management trails, signage, walking tracks and visitor facilities
• Undertakes pest and weed, marine debris, and fire management programs, and may participate in wildfire responses
• Conducts rehabilitation, restoration and threatened species management programs to conserve and maintain park values and assets
• Provides visitor services and education about the park environment
• Monitors for, and reports on, illegal activities such as illegal fishing or timber gathering
• May undertake compliance and enforcement activities