Directors required for Livestock Health and Pest Authorities
The state’s 14 Livestock Health and Pest Authorities are calling for people with suitable skills to apply to fill two appointed board positions on each authority.
The director appointments are part of the IMC report which recommended two of the directors be appointed to the authority on a skills basis to provide additional expertise to the organisation.
Livestock Health and Pest Authorities deliver the frontline livestock health and pest animal services in NSW.
Livestock Health and Pest Authorities State Management Council chairman, David Lister said the organisation is looking for people who have expertise, experience or qualifications in one or more of the following areas:
- Financial management
- Corporate governance
- Agricultural production including but not limited to:
- Livestock health
- Grazing management
- Pest animal and pest insect management
- Community and stakeholder engagement
- Business
- Law
- Issues within the district of the authority related to the functions of the authority
- Strategic planning and risk management
“This is an important opportunity for people, not necessarily landholders, to be positively involved in their region.
“The successful candidates will be selected on a merit based system and will join recently elected directors.
“The local directors will work hand in hand with landholders to safeguarding agricultural production from the biosecurity risks posed by disease and pests and I strongly encourage people to apply for a position,” David Lister said.
Successful applicants will be appointed through to 30 April 2013.
Expression of interest must be submitted to the general manager of the relevant authority by 31 July 2009.
Information on the appointed positions is available from www.lhpa.org.au/director-elections or contact the general manager of the local authority.
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