Strategic Transport Lead

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Public Sector People Full time
Band 7 Salary + monthly RDO and additional benefits

  • Influential role, reporting directly to Manager level
  • Cross organisational and community engagement exposure

Strategic Transport Lead

Merri-bek City Council:

Merri-bek City Council is a progressive council with a vibrant and energetic community of 180,000 residents.

We are proudly diverse and known for our array of fabulous festivals, cool pools, eclectic shops, and our community of artists and creative industries.

As an organization, we have been supporting our community through difficult times and have ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, community wellbeing, and creating great places.

Our organization's vision is "One team, brave and diverse, making a difference."

About the role:

Merri-bek City Council is looking to appoint their Strategic Transport Lead to join their team. Reporting directly to the Manager Transport, you will be responsible for leading the development of our updated transport strategy.

This is a fixed-term role to June 2025, with the possibility of further opportunities at the end of this term.

There's also an option for a 12-month secondment from another organization if that works better for you.

As the Strategic Transport Lead, you will have the opportunity to work with some great transport brains and courageous innovators while utilizing your transport knowledge, community engagement nous, and collaborative working style.

Merri-bek has a track record of high levels of active transport take-up, engaged schools with the Ride and Stride program, and an engaged community.

We are an inner city area with a diverse range of suburbs and pockets of significant transport disadvantage, providing a diverse range of career-defining challenges for a transport professional.

Come and be part of shaping our future and creating the future you.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and implementation of land use and transport policy, focusing on successful delivery/implementation of land use and development policy and strategy.
  • Provide expert advice on transport planning for all networks, particularly bicycle, public transport, and pedestrian network planning.
  • Manage projects, including scoping, development, and implementation, team planning, and resource management ensuring delivery of outcomes within budget and agreed timeframes.
  • Liaise with a variety of internal and external contacts, including the capacity to deal with and resolve conflict.
  • Prepare project briefs and project manage project resources within the approved budgets and timelines.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Tertiary qualifications in civil engineering, transport, urban planning, or related disciplines are essential.
  • Demonstrated skills and experience working at a senior level in the development and implementation of land use and transport policy, focusing on successful delivery/implementation of land use and development policy and strategy.
  • Knowledge and expertise in relation to transport planning for all networks and, in particular, bicycle, public transport, and pedestrian network planning.
  • Demonstrated project management skills, including project scoping, development, and implementation, team planning, and resource management ensuring delivery of outcomes within budget and agreed timeframes.
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise with a variety of internal and external contacts, including the capacity to deal with and resolve conflict.
  • Ability to prepare project briefs and project manage project resources within the approved budgets and timelines.

What this role can offer:

  • Monthly RDO
  • Extensive opportunities for training & career development
  • Salary sacrifice options and transferable long service leave within local government
  • A real sense of worklife balance & hybrid work options
  • Employersupported study assistance schemes
  • Wellness programs

Further support offered for our staff:

  • Up to 20 weeks primary carer parental leave
  • Up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
  • Purchased leave (ability to purchase additional annual leave)
  • Ceremonial leave
  • Gender affirmation leave
- family violence leave

For further Information:

Please contact Marcel Lafontaine at Public Sector People on
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or

Our Commitment:


In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality.

The statement recognises the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.

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