23rd August, 2024
Position: Contract Coordinator - Parks Start: ASAP
Duration: 3 months with possible extension
Salary: $68.00 per hour
Location: Sydney
Overview Looking for an experienced Contract Coordinator – Parks, to manage and co-ordinate the City's parks contracted service delivery and park assets, including parks and open spaces, irrigation, playgrounds, and Living Color Floral displays.
Primary Purpose of the Position Management and coordination of the City's parks contracted service delivery and parks assets, ensuring effective work systems and procedures to deliver optimum performance from service providers in delivering high-quality park management.
Ensure parks contracts, operations, and assets are managed efficiently, meet strategic and sustainability objectives, governance requirements, customer expectations, and industry best practice approaches.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities Ensure contracts are effectively planned, designed, procured, managed, and delivered at the highest possible quality standards, using best practice contract and asset management principles and delivered within the constraints of adopted time frames and budgets. Ensure service provider compliance with specifications through appropriate controls and effective performance management and ensure outcomes are monitored and measured. Deliver strong contract and asset management including contract administration and management of financials, relationships, performance, quality, risk, data, programs, timeframes for delivery, reporting, plans, proactive and reactive service levels, renewal projects, audits, and WHS. Contribute to planning, implementation, and delivery of the parks and open space program of the City's Sustainable Sydney 2030 Strategy, Greening Sydney Plan, and Asset Management Plans. Ensure park assets are well presented, sustainable, safe, and provide high quality amenity for the community. Develop specifications, technical investigations, contracts, procedures, and other service delivery arrangements for park assets and operations. Engage and manage contractors, service providers, and consultants in accordance with the relevant contracts and the City's policies. Ensure quality service delivery and value for money. Effectively collect and analyse data using City tools and systems. Monitor issues and trends in asset and service performance, act on data to ensure operational issues are addressed quickly and identify and address gaps in data required to drive performance. Research and monitor industry trends, establish appropriate service benchmarks, develop strategies and initiatives, and input into operations and systems to improve management of the City's parks. Meet the City's legislative obligations and contractual conditions in relation to delivery of parks assets and services. Provide effective risk management through proactive identification, prioritisation, treatment, monitoring, and reporting of risks and compliance with legislation and guidelines. Provide expert technical advice in relation to parks and open spaces management. Act as an interface with internal and external stakeholders, establish and maintain collaborative relationships, ensure comprehensive communication and consultation and build productive relationships with stakeholders. Co-ordinate and implement efficient and effective continuous improvement processes for the City's parks e.g.
quality management, performance management, work systems and procedures, program evaluation, best practice, and benchmarking approaches. Comply with and keep abreast of any relevant legislation applicable to the performance of the duties of this position. Adhere to all relevant Council policies and procedures. Essential Criteria Appointments are subject to the following checks/ clearances:
Reference checks National Criminal History Record Check in accordance with the Disability Inclusion Act 2014 Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012 Rights to Work in Australia All candidates are required to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated to apply for this role.
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