Science Graduate Program (Jan 2025)

About us:

DEECA brings together Victoria’s energy, environment, water, agriculture, forestry, resources, climate action, and emergency management functions into a single department to maximise connections between the environment, community, industry and economy.

Our challenge is to improve Victoria’s liveability with a population that is expected to almost double by 2050, while responsibly tackling climate change and protecting our natural environment, infrastructure and heritage for future generations.

The opportunity for you:

The DEECA Science Graduate Program is a two-year learning and development initiative open to recent graduates of science, natural resource management including ecology, conservation, sustainability, geoscience and geology, agriculture, urban and regional planning, computer science, engineering or related fields.

As a graduate, you'll:

• have diverse roles across the Department.
• work across metro and regional Victoria
• enjoy flexible work principles, including start times (7am-7pm) and hybrid work teams (mix of on-site and remote work).
• commence as an ongoing employee - with guaranteed job at the end of the program
• upon successful completion of the program, be reclassified to a VPS 3 salary of $74580.
• be supported with mentors and buddies
• participate in extensive learning and development - program guided and self-directed!

We recognise the significant responsibility our Department has as land and natural resource manager to support self-determination and create opportunities for Traditional Owners to care for the Country and provide opportunities to enhance First Peoples' connection to the Country. We are committed to creating a culturally safe environment, where individuals feel safe, valued and able to enable their culture, spiritual and belief systems.

Roles available for 2025:

We have 13 exciting postions available in our 2024 intake in Energy, Climate Science, Water, Natural Resource Management, Planning, Regulation, Geoscience and Software Engineering.

• Position 1. Policy Officer, Renewable Policy (Energy – Energy Strategy)
  Location: All in Melbourne CBD
• Position 2. Policy Officer, DER Markets and Networks (Energy – Distributed Energy Resources Markets and Networks)
  Location: Melbourne CBD / Melbourne CBD / Neg in Grampians region
• Position 3. Climate Science Project Officer (Environment, Climate Action and First Peoples – Climate Science)
  Location: All in Melbourne CBD
• Position 4. Policy and Project Officer, Water Licensing Policy (Water and Catchments - Water Resources)
  Location: Melbourne CBD / Tatura / Warrnambool
• Position 5. Project Officer (Graduate Recruit) (Forest, Fire and Regions – Grampians)
  Location: Ballarat / Melbourne CBD / Neg. Ballarat or Horsham
• Position 6. Planning Graduate (Forest, Fire and Regions – Loddon Mallee)
  Location: All in Bendigo
• Position 7. Project Officer (Forest, Fire and Regions – Hume) 
  Location: Benalla / Alexandra or Marysville / Melbourne CBD
• Position 8. Public Land Management Project Officer (Forest, Fire and Regions – Hume)
  Location: Neg. Seymour, Benalla or Wodonga / Benalla / Melbourne CBD
• Position 9. Fire & Ecology Project Officer (Forest, Fire and Regions – Policy and Planning Division)
  Location: Melbourne CBD / Neg. in Barwon South West Region / Neg. in Hume Region
• Position 10. Science Graduate (Forestry and Resources – Earth Resources Regulation)
  Location: All Melbourne CBD
• Position 11. Resources Planner (Forestry and Resources – Earth Resources Policy and Programs)
  Location: All Melbourne CBD
• Position 12. Geoscientist (Forestry and Resources – Geological Survey of Victoria)
  Location: Melbourne CBD / Melbourne CBD / Melbourne (Werribee)
• Position 13. Geoscience Software Engineer (Forestry and Resources – Geological Survey of Victoria)
  Location: All Melbourne CBD

Next steps:

Applications for the 2025 program open in June 2024 and close in July 2024.