Regional Transport Commonwealth Games Planning and

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Transport

**Salary**: $129,379 - $173,138

Occupation: Policy

Reference: VG/1709809

**About Us**

The Department of Transport and Planning oversees key planning, transport and land use policy decisions and management across the State. A life-cycle approach to planning, building, connecting and sustaining communities means our people can come together to; improve services, deliver sustainable projects, focus on customer engagement, streamline regulatory approval pathways, facilitate community consultation and better realise local economic opportunities for more liveable communities across Victoria.

The department is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds, including veterans, people who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a disability, are from varied cultural backgrounds and those who identify as LGBTIQ+. The department provides workplace adjustments for applicants with disabilities.

**About the Regional Transport Division**

Victoria is excited to be confirmed as hosts of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. In a Commonwealth Games first, Victoria 2026 will introduce a new multi-city model, bringing global sport to five regional hubs: Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland, and Shepparton. Each hub will have its own athlete and technical official village, and together they will deliver a multi-sport programme in world-class regional sporting venues.'

Hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games will create a legacy for Victoria that extends well beyond the competition period. This will include significant investment in community infrastructure in regional Victoria, including transport and world-class sporting facilities.

DTPs Regional Transport (RT) Division sits within the Transport Services Group. The RT Division is accountable for providing for the development and delivery of all transport with Regional Victoria

**About the Role**

**Position Outcomes**
- Stakeholder Management - championed close collaboration with key DoT stakeholders. Provided expert guidance to the Executive Director and Directors across the Regional transport portfolio on Commonwealth Games related matters, resulting in high levels of stakeholder satisfaction.Leading stakeholder engagement - Leads stakeholder engagement to adequately inform sound integrated transport decisions. Champions the importance of partnership through co-creation approaches to influence stakeholders through a formal/informal engagement process to ensure outcomes that deliver on technical, Government and Community requirements.
- Transport Planning - This leadership role will oversee transport network and project development activities for Victoria 2026, assisting with strategic direction and cultivating effective and collaborative stakeholder relationships.
- Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Is solutions focused, and utilises a broad range of technical expertise to work across government and at senior levels to develop and deliver sustainable solutions for Victoria 2026
- Flexibility & Adaptability - Capacity to design integrated transport solutions to existing regional network issues, while proactively solving emerging Victoria 2026 network interdependency issues.
- Effective People Leadership - has provided effective leadership, people management and support to their team. Staff are engaged with high levels of cohesion and commitment and are delivering on the services required.
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement - ensured innovative and best practice solutions are at the core of DoT's Commonwealth Games transport solution.
- Promote and support safe, inclusive, and flexible team operations.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Mandatory**
- Extensive relevant work experience in a policy role within government

**Desirable**
- Comprehensive understanding of the transport network and can operate in the strategic space
- Relevant experience coordinating and/or authoring documents for a wide range of audiences
- A relevant tertiary degree would be well regarded.
- Experience managing a team of professionals across multiple skills sets and expertise.

**Cultural Values**

At DTP, we are committed to building a safe, inclusive and high performance culture through shared actions and behaviours - aligned to our strategy and direction, that empowers our people to deliver on our goals in a constructive way.

To do this we engaged our people in a co-design process to create our own meaningful and fit-for
- purpose values. Our Cultural Values are a true reflection of what values and behaviours our people told us matter to them in the workplace and within our strategy and unique mission. We are committed to living Our Cultural Values - and these are reflected in our internal processes and all people focused programs. As part of the VPS, we also uphold the VPS values, which are reflected in the VPS Code of Conduct.

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