Team Leader Statutory Planning

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $106,534 - $128,897

Occupation: Engineering

Reference: 4059

**About the Role**

**To access the Position Description, **please click here**

**Position Outcomes**
- Managing People - Applied. Communicates role expectations and purpose; recognises deviation from values, performance standards and provides timely and constructive feedback; Understands individual needs to optimise employee engagement.
- Develop Capability
- Applied. Actively seeks to improve others’ skills and talents by providing knowledge, constructive feedback, coaching and learning opportunities; Consistently develops team capability; Recognise and develop potential in others.
- Customer Focus - Accomplished. Identifies and responds to customer requirements; Use understanding of the customers’ context to tailor services and ensure outcomes are delivered; Effectively manages risks to service delivery.
- Interpersonal Skills - Applied
- Sees things from another’s point of view and confirms 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. Identifies issues in common for one or more clients or stakeholders and uses them to build mutually beneficial partnerships; Identifies and responds to stakeholder’s underlying needs; Uses understanding of the stakeholder’s organisational context to ensure outcomes are achieved. Finds innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues.
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving - Applied. Takes into account wider business context within business unit when considering options to resolve issues. Identifies recurring problems and prevents future recurrence by integrating solutions into work process. Delivers tangible business outcomes as a result of critically evaluating problems from multiple perspectives and delivering effective solutions.

**PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES**
- Flexibility and adaptability (Applied) - Accept changed priorities without undue discomfort. Responds quickly to changes. Comfortable working in collaboration with teams outside of own organisation.
- Outcomes Thinking - Applied. Works with sense of purpose within the team and enables others to understand the strategic direction of the branch and organisation; Creates 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; Engages other teams to share information in order to understand or respond to issues; Support others in challenging situations.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Mandatory**
- Tertiary qualification relevant to Statutory Planning and/or Traffic Engineering, and/or extensive relevant experience.

**Desirable**
- Experience relevant to the accountabilities and capabilities of the role.
- Experience in growth area planning.

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- 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
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise se the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Culture Value**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

**How to Apply