Staff Feature: Alex Griffiths
Our staff feature for the month of May is Alex Griffiths.
Alex Griffiths is the current Healthy Environments Project Manager at Wheatbelt NRM having been part of the team for the past seven years.
Starting out as a Project Support Officer in 2018, Alex has worked in every level of the organisation up to where she is today.
Alex said it was seeing the opportunity to put her Conservation Biology and Botany degree into action in a new environment that encouraged her to join the team combined with the chance to be exposed to new experiences.
Having grown up in Perth Alex moved out to the Wheatbelt for the position and now loves advocating for the underappreciated beauty of the region.
Alex said one thing about her job most people might not know is that because it is a small organisation sometimes you need to be a jack of all trades and able to jump in and help out across the board where needed.
“The role itself demands a wide range of skills from being the technical expert of the team, to managing across finances, logistics, the team/people, getting work done on the ground, responding to exciting opportunities that come up as well as securing funding and contributing to the strategy and direction of the organisation,” Alex said.
She said she that while she can be ‘a bit of a perfectionist’, she has learned being practical and focusing on getting the job done well was the main goal.
“I always aim to do my best and look for ways to keep growing and improving along the way,” Alex said.
Alex said when things get challenging at work she stays motivated and focused by thinking about the bigger picture and why WNRM do what we do as well as who we do it for.
“My favorite part of my job are the connections I’ve made with landholders and being able to share a passion for our unique wheatbelt environment,” Alex said.
“Our role at WNRM is helping people achieve their conservation goals so that’s enough to help me push through.”
Alex said if she could have any superpower to make her job easier it would be the ability to control time.
“Whether that be slow it down when you need more time to fit all the work in, or speed it up when something exciting is on the horizon and you just want to get there already,” Alex said.