Where We Are

We’re located in regional centres, rural communities and capital cities.

Variety of roles available in the Department of Agriculture

• Science
• Biosecurity – plant, animal, environment and compliance and surveillance
• Veterinarian
• Policy
• Corporate Services
• Leadership and management
• Trade and Market Access – overseas posts

Size of Organisation

5000

Organisational Benefits

The Department of Agriculture offers excellent job benefits and tenable workplace conditions to its employees:

• strong commitment to diversity and inclusion
• health benefits
• learning and development opportunities including study assistance
• flexible work arrangements.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace. We value the contributions of people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. The department are proud partners with Pride in Diversity and has been awarded an AWEI Bronze Employer for LGBTIQ inclusion. We are also a gold member of the Australian Network on Disability and an active member of the Secretaries Equality and Diversity Council.

We have processes in place to support all applicants including those who identify as LGBTIQ. Feel free to reach out to the contact officer from our recruitment team if you have any questions.

Matt Flood’s Story

My name is Matt Flood and I work in the commercial fisheries section of the Fisheries Policy Branch.

My role involves the review of fisheries policies and the development of advice for new policies.

I think the most enjoyable aspect of my job is really the problem-solving side of it so trying to work out what works and what doesn’t work in policies and working with other people in other departments and in industry.

Jean’s Story

My name’s Jean Toogood and my family is Indigenous inheritance from the Cairns area.

I was 25 when my dad found out that we are of Aboriginal decent and him and his brothers and sisters all went around and sort of followed the family tree up to Cairns so we do have the tribe actually in Cairns. I’m a Biosecurity Officer, I work currently in the Client Contact group we take all calls from public and internal/external, enquiries to do with quarantine.

We’ve had some interesting enquiries; the other day I had one enquiring about a human shrunken head whether they can bring that into Australia. So you get the same enquires every day for the same product or different things and other days you get a few little obscure things that you would not expect to get on the phone.

As an Aboriginal person working within the department, I find that there’s no prejudice or anything like that, so I find the environment is just really pleasant to work in.

There’s so many different jobs in this space and within the department that you can learn if you’re actually doing, studying environment or anything that, that a lot of that stuff can actually be utilised within the department as well.

The connection between our department and indigenous communities and environment is very hand in hand because our essential role is to protect our way of life, to make sure there’s no pest and disease that can destroy that inhabitant that we all enjoy.

That my story.

Adrian Dinsdale’s Story

My name is Adrian Dinsdale.

I’m the assistant director of Operational Science Services.

My job largely involves managing the laboratory facilities here at the Post Entry Quarantine facility.

So managing the staff, the types of assays we do, trying to trouble shoot technical issues and to give scientific advice. One of the most satisfying things of my job is getting to do different and interesting and challenging things all the time.

We get new and interesting problems and it’s our job to think about them and solve them.

#Thatsmystory.