Are you looking for an exciting role where every day is different?

Do you love animals?

Do you have a creative mind and want to actually use it?

Do you look good in khaki?

Want to experience living & working in the Sunny Coast Hinterland?

Kookaburra Park is a boutique farm stay and wedding venue where no two days are the same! We’re seeking a passionate, hands-on manager to lead our small team, deliver unforgettable guest experiences, and bring creative ideas to life.

In this diverse role, you’ll oversee daily park operations, host weddings and events, care for our rescued animals, and create engaging social media content to showcase our unique destination. From styling our onsite shop/cafe to coordinating animal feeding and family activities, your creativity and initiative will shine.

This is a lifestyle role with onsite accommodation included, perfect for someone who thrives in nature, loves kids and animals, and enjoys variety. Strong social media and marketing skills are essential, along with the confidence to work autonomously.

Experience in the caravan park/camping ground or wedding venue industries is NOT required. Instead, your skills and personality are what will land you this job!

If you’re ready to make our guests’ favourite place in the world your office, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Role

Start date: early January 2026

Enjoy the beautiful hinterland rural lifestyle with a subsidised two bedroom house part of the package. This role is for an individual (not a management couple) however couples and families are welcome to live onsite and enjoy this incredible lifestyle.

This role is truly unique and the variety of tasks day to day will change. You must be willing and able to coordinate weddings and other events right through to cleaning amenities whilst having a chat with guests.

A love for animals is absolutely essential. We rescue and adopt our fury team members and they are a core part of the park experience. You must also be great working with kids, as young families are our target market.

You will operate extremely autonomously with a hands off management style from the park owners - ensuring the park is prepped and ready for guest arrival, managing guest bookings and their experience whilst in the park and managing the small team.

Experience in social media marketing is essential. You must have confidence in content creation, creating campaigns, branding, meta, TikTok, canva, email marketing campaigns and website edits.

This role will lead the planning and execution of themed weekends and events. A business development mind will thrive, with the objective to increase bookings through the quieter months.

A creative brain that will have fun and enjoy creating content and engaging our online community. Ensuring the key messages of the business are communicated in entertaining ways. This is a core duty and skills in this area will be highly valued.

Merchandising and creating a beautiful, on theme shop and reception environment that is ‘insta-worthy’ stocking the shop with beautiful local goods and ensuring the parks overall aesthetic is on brand. If you have a knack for styling, this is for you!

Your two days off will be week days, with most working weeks Wednesday - Sunday pending school holidays, events and the overall team roster.

Key KPI’s include the guest experience, feedback and reviews. We do NOT measure based on sales or dollar targets. We believe the business will continue to grow when we focus on all the important small and large details that ensure our guests have the most amazing experience, and tracking your success based on a dollar figure that is easily manipulated by outside factors (weather, economy etc) is not the best way to motivate you. We want this to be the best job you’ve ever had… even if it involves cleaning a lot of toilets!

Key Responsibilities

Manage bookings, emails, guest experience from first touch point to post visit communications

Run park activities with the guests including animal feeding and discos

Coordinate weddings and private events — from site viewings through to execution

Deliver exceptional guest experiences and build strong relationships with visitors, couples, and suppliers

Content creation, campaign execution and marketing

Manage the shop inventory, merchandising and displays

Park operations - ensuring consumables are stocked, bins maintained, animals fed etc

Lead and support a small onsite team including rostering

Ensure the site remains clean, safe, and aligned with Kookaburra Park’s eco-values and unique feel

Liaise with owners and assist with continuous improvement and park development initiatives

You must be able and willing to jump in to any duty from cleaning amenities, cabin changeovers, moving animals between fields, catching guinea pigs and many random tasks.

Planning and execution of new events and promotions

Required Skills

Must enjoy working with and interacting with kids

Have confidence speaking to crowds, with an outgoing personality ensuring all guests have a positive interaction during their stay

Must love animals and excited to handle guinea pigs up to full size porky pigs

Pro-active with initiative: If you prefer to be actively managed this is not the role for you! You will be working mostly with complete autonomy.

Strong organisational skills

Tech-savvy: operating the booking system, emails, messages on socials, canva/design

Social media and marketing

Experience and confidence leading a small team

Current blue card (working with children) or willing to obtain

Bonus Skills

Barista, extra bonus if you can make an epic hot choccy!

General handiness

Ride on mower/whipper snippering

First aid training

Experience with wix or similar website platform

Experience organising and executing events

Business development or sales

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Perhaps you have a skillset you feel will be valuable to Kookaburra Park that hasn’t been included - please highlight this when applying.

To apply:

If this sounds like a dream job and you can see yourself providing amazing value to the business and enjoying this lifestyle we would love to hear from you!

Email [email protected] with your resume, and a cover letter or even better a 60 second video to show us your personality and why you are the perfect person for this role.