Employment Status: Permanent
Days & Hours of Work: Monday - Friday, totaling 38 Hours per week
Competitive Salary: Band 7 ($111,166 - $124,534 p.a.) dependent on experience + 11.5% superannuation.
Location: Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home.

About Us:

We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Customer Experience and Results Matter.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving – and excited about our future – as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

About the Role:

An opportunity has opened to join the Strategic Planning Team at Bayside City Council.

Reporting to the Strategic Planning Coordinator, you will use your creative urban thinking and land use planning policy expertise to contribute and lead the response to the State Government's ongoing planning reforms. 

With the recent announcements of the State Government’s Final Housing Targets, the release of Plan for Victoria, and expansion of the Activity Centre Program, Council is seeking a passionate and highly knowledgeable senior strategic planner whom will work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders regarding the shaping of policy and planning controls to appropriately respond to these major State government announcements.   

You will also help lead and support the development and implementation of strategies and policies to guide the future of the built environment in Bayside. As a senior member of the team, you will use your relevant qualifications, demonstrated abilities and experience to manage end to end projects and a project team. You will collaborate cross functionally, and support and mentor junior staff through active sharing of knowledge and by harnessing talents and strengths to deliver exceptional outcomes.

Key Selection Criteria:

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

• Comprehensive understanding of urban planning principles and processes
• Proven skills and experience in policy and strategy development
• Outstanding Project management skills
• Strong and effective communication skills are required as well as the ability to build influence
• Strong problem-solving skills
• The ability to conduct community engagement and translate community ideas into plans and strategies

Mandatory pre-employment requirements:

• Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check.
• Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check. 

What we can offer you in return: 

• A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
• Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
• Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
• A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach.
• Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel.
• A Green Money program, that rewards our staff for taking simple everyday steps to a more substantiable and climate aware living.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

How to apply:

1. To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description.
2. Provide a cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria and what has motivated you to apply for this role.
3. Click Apply to submit your application.
4. If you require any access or reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager – your customer experience truly matters to us!

Applications close: Sunday 6th April, 11.55pm

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or have any question, please contact Rachael Hudson, Strategic Planning Coordinator via email rhudson@bayside.vic.gov.au 

Bayside City Council prides itself on its values of Respect Each Other, Own It, Work Together and Find Better Ways.

Bayside City Council proudly acknowledges the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging as well as all Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community members with us today.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse and socially inclusive work environment. We actively encourage applicants with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with disability, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.