Ausvet specialises in working with a wide range of organisations to solve problems of animal disease. We pride ourselves on helping our clients to efficiently and effectively provide insight and solutions to these and other animal health concerns. Our team matches curiosity and excellence to ensure we can deliver high quality evidence-based advice. With our HQ in Australia, Ausvet’s work has taken us all over the planet, working with smallholder livestock farmers, businesses and governments at all levels. We work in a niche sector with the goal of ensuring healthy animals through epidemiology, improving the health of people and ultimately aim to contribute to a healthy planet.

If you’d like to be part of our goal to be the provider of choice for animal epidemiology and scientific solutions, we are looking for motivated early-career individuals to join a team of highly qualified professionals who aim for excellence, demonstrate integrity and embrace their curiosity to solve problems.

Working in partnership with the Senior Consultants and Consultants, the Project Officer will be required to work across all departments of the organisation with roles including but not limited to, managing a range of project activities including basic research design, literature reviews, exploratory data analysis, organising project activities, acquiring and managing confidential and private animal health data, drafting reports, contributing to project management and supporting the development of proposals to match client requirements. Travel may be required and applicants should be willing and able to travel to any destination Ausvet may be working.

This role is ideal for someone looking to gain professional experience in veterinary epidemiology to assist the team in achieving defined project and business outcomes in the biosecurity, food security and health security sectors. It would suit someone with a background in agriculture / aquaculture, and a Bachelor Degree in a relevant domain.