City of Melbourne (View other jobs from this organisation)
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$106,988 + 9.5% Superannuation
Temporary to 30 June 2019
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Our Urban Strategy Branch is seeking to engage a Senior Strategic Planner to join their team.
How this position will Make the Difference to City of Melbourne…Reporting to the Team Leader, Planning Policy, the Senior Strategic Planner provides strategic, creative urban planning thinking and expertise to areas of significant change in the city, contributing to strategies, structure plans, planning policy and projects that shape the city. The Senior Strategic Planner will translate visions, strategies and plans into formal planning policy, engaging proactively and expertly with established planning processes under the Melbourne Planning Scheme to ensure Council is in a strong position to leverage high quality place and development outcomes. The Senior Strategic Planner will also support city shaping strategic projects such as land use and infrastructure planning.
As a senior member of the team and branch, you will take a lead role in ensuring the work of the branch delivers high quality places and outcomes for people, adopts inventive, best practice and multi-disciplinary approaches to city change and is an advocate for the work of the branch and its role. You will manage end to end complex, multi-disciplinary cross-organisational projects and will lead project teams, along with managing an element of infrastructure planning. You will collaborate across the organisation to propose evidence-based planning policy to enable the delivery of a world class city, precincts, neighbourhoods and places into the future.
This role will work in collaboration with a range of internal and external stakeholders, therefore strong and effective communication skills are required as well as the ability to build influence, problem solve, negotiate and resolve. Planning expertise, project management and relationship and stakeholder management are core capabilities of this role.
You can bring… (Selection criteria)
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How to apply…
PLease visit our Careers page, and as part of the online application form you are required to:
Please address your covering letter to Robyn Hellman, Team Leader Planning Policy
The position description for this role will not be provided at this stage of application.
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