Senior Statutory Planning Professional

This role offers the opportunity to lead a team in statutory planning and contribute to creating more accessible and liveable Victorian communities.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and managing a team to achieve our goals, working closely with stakeholders to identify and respond to customer requirements.

• Main Responsibilities:
• Manage People - Applied: Communicate role expectations and purpose; recognize deviation from values, performance standards and provide timely and constructive feedback; understand individual needs to optimize employee engagement.
• Develop Capability - Applied: Actively seek to improve others' skills and talents by providing knowledge, constructive feedback, coaching and learning opportunities; consistently develop team capability; recognize and develop potential in others.
• Customer Focus - Accomplished: Identify and respond to customer requirements; use understanding of customers' context to tailor services and ensure outcomes are delivered; effectively manage risks to service delivery.
• Interpersonal Skills - Applied: See things from another's point of view and confirm understanding; understand motivations, needs and wants of stakeholders and their impact on service delivery; tailor communications according to audience and/or audience preference.
• Stakeholder Management - Accomplished: Identify issues in common for one or more clients or stakeholders and use them to build mutually beneficial partnerships; identify and respond to stakeholders' underlying needs; use understanding of stakeholders' organizational context to ensure outcomes are achieved. Find innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues.
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving - Applied: Take into account wider business context within business unit when considering options to resolve issues. Identify recurring problems and prevent future recurrence by integrating solutions into work process. Deliver tangible business outcomes as a result of critically evaluating problems from multiple perspectives and delivering effective solutions.

• Fundamental Qualities:
• Flexibility and Adaptability (Applied): Accept changed priorities without undue discomfort. Respond quickly to changes. Comfortable working in collaboration with teams outside of own organization.
• Outcomes Thinking - Applied: Work with sense of purpose within the team and enable others to understand strategic direction of the branch and organization; create a sense of purpose within the team by establishing links between work and impact to the community.
• Working Collaboratively - Applied: Build a supportive and cooperative team environment; engage other teams to share information in order to understand or respond to issues; support others in challenging situations.

The ideal candidate will hold a tertiary qualification relevant to statutory planning and/or traffic engineering, and/or possess extensive relevant experience.

• Mandatory Requirements:
• Tertiary qualification relevant to statutory planning and/or traffic engineering, and/or extensive relevant experience.

We Offer:

A meaningful career that contributes to creating more accessible and liveable Victorian communities, professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services, a hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork, optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements, the opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs, and a commitment to developing a safe and inclusive culture.

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants. Our department prioritizes the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviors that align with our strategy and direction.