Executive Advisor, City Shaping

**Executive Advisor, City Shaping** **-** **(**2401170**)**
- Actively contribute towards the achievement of strategic projects and priorities
- A unique team creating an extraordinary city.
- Full time, permanent opportunity

**About the Opportunity**

As an Executive Advisor within the City Shaping portfolio, you will provide high-level support and advice to ensure effective management and achievement of strategic goals. Your role involves proactively seeking information on sensitive, complex, and political matters, acting as a key point of contact for the Director, City Shaping and coordinating responses across the portfolio.

The City Shaping Portfolio comprises the Park Lands, Planning & Sustainability and City Operations programs. The portfolio leverages and celebrates our role as a Capital City Council and delivers the services that protect our heritage, Park Lands and urban environment, demonstrating our environment leadership now and into the future.

Through the maintenance and fostering of relationships with internal and external stakeholders, you will contribute to the management and delivery of a broad range of projects, and assist the Director City Shaping through researching and preparing high quality briefing papers, reports, presentations, and speeches.

This role is an opportunity for you to play a significant part in helping shape the direction of our City Shaping portfolio and having a significant impact on our city.

**About You**

To be successful in this role you will have:

- The ability to analyse complex, politically sensitive information and formulate measured responses which minimise risk exposure.
- Demonstrated experience in working in a high profile and often sensitive and political environment requiring professionalism, diplomacy and confidentiality.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise and be flexible when responding to changing priorities and demands.
- Substantial experience in managing the development and delivery of high standard, cost effective and timely Executive advice services, procedures and policies that contribute significantly to the achievement of corporate goals and objectives.
- Proven experience in the development of a range of professional documents, including but not limited to, correspondence, presentations, submissions, briefing papers and reports.
- The ability to effectively lead and manage projects in a highly accountable environment.

**About Us**

Located in the geographic heart of Kaurna Country, the City of Adelaide celebrates its cultural heritage, unique natural surrounds and structures its footprint in a way that allows it to adapt to the changing needs of the community and a dynamic global landscape. Our focus is on our community’s wellbeing and quality of life - investing in city improvements and on future planning, so we continue to design a liveable city where future generations can continue to live authentic and meaningful lives. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and be a bigger part of our amazing city

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At the City of Adelaide, we thrive in an environment that is welcoming, inclusive and safe, and celebrates difference. We value and embrace our diverse perspectives and recognise the value diversity has in fuelling innovation and enabling brilliant experiences for our diverse community.

**For Further Enquiries & How to Apply**

All enquiries regarding this position will remain private and confidential and can be directed to Ilia Houridis, Director City Shaping on 8203 7324.

Please submit a Resume and a Cover Letter expressing the skills, experience and qualities you can bring to this position addressed to Ilia Houridis, Director, City Shaping.

**Applications close at 11.59pm, Sunday 8 December 2024.**

Please be advised this is for a full-time, permanent opportunity with a starting salary at the Level 8 classification commencing at $127,346 + 11.5% superannuation. Please note that there is a 3% enterprise salary increase to $131,166 commencing the first full pay period in January 2025.
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**Position Description**: Click here

**Primary Location**: Adelaide - CBD

**Job**: Executive Leadership

**Program**: CITY SHAPING

**Employment Status**: Permanent

**Hours of Work**: Full-time

**Job Posting**: 20/11/2024, 3:35:10 PM

**Unposting Date**: 08/12/2024, 7:29:00 AM