About the role
In this role you will provide an effective and efficient planning advice to service and facilitate the assessment, review and issue of planning permits and approvals. 

As a key member of the City’s Growth Areas Team of statutory planners, you will play a front-line role in the delivery of new and emerging growth area activity centres, subdivisions, housing, and infrastructure approvals.

Work type: Permanent Full Time
Classification: Band 6 $90,263-$97,365 pa plus super

Key responsibilities include:

• Facilitate the assessment and issue of planning permits and approvals for land use, development, and subdivision proposals, including within growth areas.
• Providing a professional and customer focused planning advisory service, in a team environment.
• Represent the City in public forums, legal proceedings and appeal hearings.
• Mentoring of student planner and other junior staff as required.

About you
To be successful in this role, you will have a tertiary qualification in Town Planning, Urban Studies or similar related field and substantial experience in local government town planning.

Essential Experience:

• A good understanding, practical knowledge and ability to interpret town planning legislation and practices and associated legislation to interpret their meaning.
• Well-developed analytical, investigative, interpretative and problem solving skills.
• Ability to resolve conflict and negotiate outcomes.
• Ability to effectively plan, organise and manage own time to achieve targets within a set timetable.
• Strong teamwork ethos.
• Willingness to mentor staff.
• Preferred candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check as part of the recruitment process (funded by the City).

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

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Diversity and Inclusion  
At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.  

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
Join the City of Greater Geelong, a community-focused workplace on Wadawurrung Country. We deliver over 130 services to our growing population, striving to make our city a great place to live, work, and study. Our central location for Central Geelong-based employees is the Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal, a modern, sustainable, and inclusive workplace, along with our outreach locations.

If you're passionate about inclusivity and community, apply now – we’d love to meet you!

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Applications and Enquiries

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Enquiries:  Steve Roussac | Team Leader Statutory Planning | SRoussac@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

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