Senior Advisor – Environmental Strategic and Science Services Transition Officer
Core
Provide strategic advisory, executive coordination, and science communication support within a key environmental science function, while coordinating specialist science services and supporting transition to a new operating model.
Role type
Senior Advisor and Science Services Transition Officer
Builds
Executive briefings, decision papers, strategic advice, and consistent science service delivery
Domain
Government, environmental regulation, public health, and scientific operations
Required skills
Strategic advisory, executive coordination, science communication, stakeholder engagement, regulatory science knowledge, incident response coordination, workflow improvement, team leadership, change management
Preferred skills
Environmental regulation experience, public health background, laboratory services experience, project/transition coordination
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Prepare and quality-assure executive briefings and decision papers; translate complex scientific and regulatory information for executives; coordinate expert input on regulatory science and public health matters; manage executive requests, priorities, and escalations; support committees and executive meetings; coordinate stakeholder engagement across government, research, universities, and industry; triage and coordinate science advice and service requests; connect stakeholders with scientific specialists; coordinate advice rosters and service continuity; support specialist advice on sampling, analysis, and interpretation; coordinate responses to incidents and urgent regulatory matters; monitor workloads, risks, and delivery timeframes; support science and laboratory reporting; implement new workflows and governance procedures; document processes and support knowledge transfer
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
