Strategic Community Planning Lead

Community Wellbeing
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Closing on: Jun 26 2025
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- **High performing and innovative organisation - #GEProud**:

- **Employment type**:Full-time, temporary position from August 2025 to January 2026. (part-time negotiable)
- **Location**:Glen Eira Town Hall / Hybrid

**About the role**
The City of Glen Eira is seeking a dynamic and experienced community planner to step into a five-month temporary role backfilling an employee on leave. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to strategic planning across the Community Wellbeing Directorate and lead a high-impact project focused on the development of a Community Infrastructure Plan that will help shape the future of our vibrant and diverse community.

You will work within the Community Wellbeing Directorate, reporting directly to the Director, and collaborate to deliver strategic outcomes that enhance the health, wellbeing, cohesion and connectedness of our community.

Over the next five months, the key priority for this role is to continue the development of a Community Infrastructure Plan for Glen Eira, and specifically, tasks will include, but not be limited to:

- project management
- using an online modelling tool to collect data and create reports and undertake analysis
- engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather insights
- provide strategic advice and recommendations to senior leadership
- participate in and inform strategic property reviews and forward planning
- ensure integration of community infrastructure planning with broader wellbeing services and strategies

**About you**
You are a strategic thinker with a passion for social planning, community wellbeing and infrastructure planning.

You will have formal tertiary qualifications in relevant field/s along with proven and extensive experience in strategic planning, policy development, and project leadership ideally in community infrastructure planning.

You will possess strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, have the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality outcomes within tight timeframes.
- Not meeting all the requirements for this role? We value diverse experiences for positive community outcomes. If you're excited about the position but don't perfectly align with the criteria, we still encourage you to apply._

**Working at Glen Eira City Council**
The City of Glen Eira is a dynamic municipality located within the southeast metropolitan region of Melbourne, approximately 10 kilometres from the CBD. Council provides a range of services to over 155,000 residents from more than 160 cultural backgrounds and over 16,000 businesses.

Glen Eira City Council is a collaborative, values-based organisation that strives for innovation. Our 1,370 employees bring their diverse backgrounds and varied experiences and perspectives to an inclusive and flexible work environment, creating a unique and vibrant culture that is representative of the municipality it services.

Recognised as an Employer of Choice, we seek people who share our community focused values and have a desire to create positive local impact.

**Pre-employment checks**
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- Attach a cover letter (no more than one page)

**Closing date**: 26 June 2025 at 11.55pm

**Glen Eira City Council prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer and a child safe organisation. As a Council, we are committed to**:

- **Providing a diverse and inclusive workplace that values the safety and wellbeing of children and young people, as well as all our employees.**:

- **Reconciliation and supporting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aspirations.**

**We value the knowledge, skills and talents that all people can share with our workforce and community.