Principal Planning Officer

3 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

About the Role
As a Principal Planning Officer with the Strategic Planning team you will:

- Undertake a range of infrastructure planning activities including monitoring the impacts of annual student growth, inform the development of planning for new schools
- Work with teams across the department and in partnership with external stakeholders to source, validate and analyse information to information to provide investment recommendations for senior leaders
- Lead initiatives designed to provide a robust an evidence based growth program, informing and supporting the delivery of annual budget submissions
- Provide strategic advice on land use planning and site selection to inform future allocation or acquisition of sites for new schools

**Within the scope of the duties, the ideal applicant will**:

- support analysis of complex options and provide advice to senior executive
- facilitating ideas through to firm investment recommendations

What You Need to Succeed
- Effective communication, consultation and negotiation skills with a proven ability to meet client needs, represent the department and maintain mutually productive partnerships with stakeholders including local government, other state government agencies including QGSO and other internal and external stakeholder groups
- Demonstrated high level analytical skills with the ability to develop conclusions using varied sources of information and a willingness to test assumptions through collaboration
- A desire to improve systems, services, policies, practices and processes to ensure that departmental objectives are achieved and to be accountable for the course of action taken to create this improvement
- A positive and collaborative approach to complex issues and enjoys working as a team to develop solutions

More About Us
You will work for an organisation that values its people and promotes leadership and innovation. We respect professionalism, embrace diversity and a balance between work and life commitments. You will be actively supported as an individual and will have access to a range of flexible work options, an employee assistance program and learning and development opportunities.

**Contact Name**: Paul Benedek, Manager (07) 3034 5278

**Closing Date**: Sunday, 19 March 2023
How to Apply

**Please attach the following**:

- a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history).
- a maximum 1 page written statement about how your achievements and capabilities meet the requirements of the role.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE) #LI-PRIORITYThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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