Local Land Services graduate program

The LLS graduate program offers a 12-month opportunity for university graduates to immerse themselves in the frontline services we provide, supporting regional communities, landholders and the environment. 

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Since the program’s launch in 2023, Local Land Services (LLS) has welcomed over 30 graduates from a variety of universities across the country.  

While LLS is not running a dedicated graduate program in 2026, we still have a variety of job opportunities you may wish to explore. We are always looking for variety of skillsets and experience levels, from policy, project roles to field-based positions in biosecurity surveillance, agriculture, and forestry.

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About the Local Land Services graduate program

At Local Land Services, we take pride in our Graduate Program - a strong commitment to the regions we serve. This program develops and keeps professionals in regional NSW, and brings the latest skills and knowledge into our communities to work alongside our experienced teams. ​

The primary purpose of the program is to support succession planning through attraction of highly skilled and qualified graduates from agricultural, environmental and veterinary science, creating a pipeline of talent into the future.  ​

Our graduates receive special support and chances to grow through: 

  • on-the-job experience
  • mentorship  
  • training
  • engagement with landholders and stakeholders. 
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Local Land Services Graduate Program

The Local Land Services Graduate Program provides valuable on-the-job training where graduates work closely with experienced Local Land Services staff to support landholders and communities.

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Local Land Services Graduate Program

The graduate program is kind of designed and inspired by connecting what we do now to our potential to do amazing incredible work into the future. It gives us a much better outcome for our customers and our farmers and our land managers, because we get that continuity of, you know, new ideas coming through. Plus the experience of the older staff. I've decided to join LLS as I was fortunate enough to grow up in the dairy industry surrounded by an amazing community. And I thought, what better than to try for this program and be able to give back to the community that supported me. Servicing local needs with local peoples as part of what creates, the point of difference for local land services. we're able to provide to our customers and rural land managers. They will get to learn on the job. They will get to experience some incredible joy and richness from delivering those services. What do I hope to get out of the program? As I said mainly hands on experience. On the field work. getting out there and actually contributing where it where I can or where it's needed, is certainly what I'm trying to do as early as I can. One of the values of this program that we've run over the last three years, this being the third year, is all of the recent grads have gained either full time employment with LLS or with other organisations.

 

Past graduate programs

In 2023 LLS launched the inaugural graduate program, welcoming 10 graduates to agriculture, district veterinary and natural resource management teams.

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Graduates from the 2023 program. Left to right: Back row – Cameron Kirk, Ashleigh Halligan, Luella Champ, Kate Jenkins, Ellie Ireson. Front row – Eloise Haigh, Brianna Carney, Lauren Adler, Claire Rogers, Divya LaBrooy.

 

The 2024 program was launched in Wagga Wagga where 13 graduates were inducted over 3 days.

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Graduates from the 2024 program. Left to right: Sarah Ireland, Rachel Faulkner, Tina Nguyen, Jazz Beddows, Maz Hoelscher, Savannah Kelly, Elizabeth Polley, Marlee Clayton, Tayo Jimoh, Brianna Hatty, Dan Siratkov, Carrie Evans, Elias Christofi.

 

I’ve had countless opportunities to learn new things and break out of my comfort zone. I have felt warmly welcomed into the Ag team and have had the privilege to learn from some of the best experts in their fields. The invaluable experience of learning to project manage, combined with the practical outdoor work on the farm and the opportunity to network with others, has been extremely rewarding.

Sarah Ireland 2024 Ag Graduate - Central Tablelands 

The success of the 2023 and 2024 programs led to increased interest in 2025 with over 120 applications received.

The 2025 recruitment round led to the employment of another 10 graduates across Agriculture, NRM and Veterinary Science in February 2025.

Local Land Services is now recognised as an employer of choice in our industry.  

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Graduates from the 2025 program. Left to right: Back row - James Mettam, Mikayla Cole, Bridie Mulligan, Emily Hegarty, Rob Grant, Front row - Ryan Cope, Danielle Fordham, Hannah Shields, Kaitlin Hutchings and Amelia Whyman.

Contact Local Land Services NSW

Our team welcome your enquiries, feedback and comments.  Contact our team

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Phone:1300 795 299
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