Assessment Officer

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Position Description**
**Classification**:General Officer Level 4/5

**Department**:Development Services

**Current Occupant**:Vacant

**This Position Reports To**:Manager Development Services

**Reporting To This Position**:None

**Location**:Nuriootpa Main Office

**Date Last Reviewed**:June 2023

**Approved by**:Director Development and Community Services

**Corporate Objectives**

All Employees of Council contribute to Council’s strategic goals and objectives. The Barossa Community Plan

2020 - 2040 lays the foundation for all strategic decisions made by Council and is supported by a Corporate Plan.

The Community Plan provides a clear strategic direction across a range of areas, as well as serving as an

overarching guide to measure our decision making and successful delivery of service. The Community Plan shows

commitment to the values of Land and Place, Community, Leadership and Achievement with targets that reflect

five key themes:
Natural Environment

and Built Heritage

Health and Wellbeing

Business and Employment

Community and

Culture

Infrastructure

**Customer Service**

Council values its customers and strives to provide the right people, efficient processes and systems to deliver a

quality customer experience. Every role within Council serves an internal or external customer and we are

committed to ensuring that customers are at the centre of everything we do.

**Staff Values and Vision**
- Our organisational culture is built upon our values of Inclusiveness, Progression and Resilience, with our ultimate _
- vision being that ‘Our service uplifts our community’. _

Inclusive We approach our work with a collaborative and respectful mindset.

Progressive We show curiosity and explore sustainable and innovative ways of working.

Resilient We are receptive and responsive to growth and change.

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**Position Overview**

The Assessment Officer - Planning is responsible for the provision of exceptional customer service and the

delivery of sound professional, technical and procedural advice concerning development matters to all

internal and external customers of Council. The Assessment Officer is accountable for ensuring the advice

statutory Acts, Regulations, codes, practices and Council policies and processes.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Development Applications and Administration**
- Perform a range of duties relating to development and planning activity for the Barossa Council by

ensuring sound and reasonable planning outcomes as aligned to organisational planning strategies,

relevant legislation and policies.
- Deliver sound, professional and well-informed statutory planning advice to the organisation and broader

community in alignment with the Development Act/Regulations and/or Planning, Development and

Infrastructure Act/regulations, other relevant legislation and the Development Plan/Planning and Design

Code.

to a final decision ensuring compliance with all relevant administrative requirements, Acts, regulations

and legislation.
- Ensure Council’s administrative processes are followed with a focus on thorough documenting of

correspondence and other relevant documentation and the completion of all records, reports, and

agenda items for the Assessment Panel and approvals within determined timeframes in an accurate and

efficient manner.
- Effectively utilise relevant software to its potential in order to assist in the streamlining of planning
- Contribute as a member of a multi-disciplinary team within Council by addressing and resolving a range of

development and planning issues.

and advice and to prepare quality documentation and correspondence as it relates to the development

and planning function of Council.
- Maintain awareness of changes to relevant legislation as it relates to planning to ensure best practice

activity is applied at all times.
- Actively participate in a collaborative team environment that ensures the efficient and effective operation

of the Directorate.
- Participate in a culture of continuous improvement with a commitment to multi-skilling across business units.
- Drive a culture of exceptional customer service to all internal and external customers through the delivery

of prompt, effective and efficient support services.
- Deliver accurate and timely recording, retrieving and actioning of documents in Council’s Electronic

Document Records Management System (EDRMS).

**Authority, Responsibility and Accountability**

**The Assessment Officer - Panning is authorised to**:

- Make decisions within the scope of relevant legislative requirements and processes.
- Make decisions which are consistent and meet with Council’s processes.
- Make decisions based on data, knowledge and research.
- Exercise initiative and judgement where practices are not clearly defined.
- To perform duties and responsibi