Place Manager
5 months ago
Work with an exceptional, high performing Place Making team at one of the largest local Council’s
- Work cross-functionally, across various Council business units on multi-disciplinary projects
- Gain experience and exposure in delivering a wide range of capital and operational projects
The Place Making team at City of Parramatta are about moving from ‘liveability’ to ‘lovability’. The spaces between buildings in our cities and around buildings in our towns and neighbourhoods are critical. When they work, cities work, and neighbourhoods work. **Connecting people to place through strong place-making is our bold vision. **It aligns the objectives of Council’s strategic objectives to our day-to-day work as place-makers, how we do it, and how we prioritise it. Place-makers are advocates for the human lived experience in our cities and neighbourhoods, they are advocates for local community engagement, for community involvement and ownership of public spaces.
The City of Parramatta is going through unprecedented change and transformation as it becomes Sydney’s Central City. The intensity of growth and investment in City of Parramatta means that Council, their partners, and community have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the City’s future and ensure it is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable.
**About the role**
Place Managers are driven to connect people to place, and take a data and evidence-based look at what makes an area liveable and loveable. You’ll have access to significant budgets to use your understanding of place-making to deliver high quality and distinctive capital projects, activations, and community engagement initiatives.
Place Managers lead, develop, manage and contribute to strategic, complex, diverse, sensitive projects and multi-disciplinary teams, contributing to the delivery of Council’s strategic outcomes. You will undertake a multi-disciplinary approach to the planning, delivery and management of all your projects through the integration of social, economic and environmental trends in order to achieve a place-based outcome for the community.
This role requires strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills, the ability to prepare strategic information, place and project plans, and deliver innovative and effective place-based strategies to fulfil the delivery of Council’s vision and strategic objectives within a place. You will engage in consultations with an array of internal and external stakeholders - including Councillors, senior staff, local organisations and community members - to plan, develop and deliver the place-making initiatives and projects as identified in Council’s Strategic and Management Plan.
**About You**
You’ll have exceptional interpersonal skills in leadership, coordination, negotiation, consultation, teamwork and change management, including the ability to build strong and productive partnerships within Council, with local residential and business communities, government bodies and local organisations to deliver on Council’s Strategic Plan. You will have experience leading, developing and managing strategic and complex projects and multi-disciplinary teams.
**Qualifications**
One or more academic qualifications or evidence of exceptional experience in a related field of expertise
**What’s on offer**
This is a contract opportunity up to 6 months.
We are offering an attractive total remuneration from $137,435 to $151,322 including super.
Participation in Council’s Motor Vehicle Scheme will be discussed with the successful applicant.
In addition City of Parramatta also offer excellent employee benefits which include:
- A range of flexible work arrangements including hybrid WFH arrangements
- 14 weeks paid parental leave
- Access to Long Service Leave after 5 years
- Central Parramatta location (Public transport at our door, discounted parking)
- Significant leave benefits (up to 12 days flexi-time, 3 additional leave days at Christmas, 15 days sick/personal leave, 2 days health and wellbeing leave per year)
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Health and Wellbeing programs
**Want to know more?**
Further information regarding the requirements of this role can be found in the attached Position Description.
**How to apply**
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