Team Leader Planning Services

Permanent full-time, with flexible work options available
- Circa $97,480 plus super (Band 6)
- Heart of Preston location, close to public transport

At Darebin, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of how we work. Our commitment to these values is unwavering, they are central to our mission, to our impact and to help us better serve our community. We know that having varied perspectives and lived experiences helps generate better ideas to enable a diverse, inclusive and connected community.

**About Darebin City Council**
Located in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, Darebin City Council is home to one of the largest, most diverse communities in terms of culture, language, religion, socio-economic background, occupation, and housing needs. The city has one of the largest populations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents in metropolitan Melbourne. Our Vision is for a community that works together to advance community life.

**About the Role**
The Team Leader is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of a team of administration officers to provide sector-leading business and customer services to the public and the Darebin Statutory Planning unit. More specifically, the Team Leader Planning Services will:

- Build a high-performing team with a strong culture of collaboration and service excellence.
- Ensure the team provides a positive customer experience.
- Contribute to and identify continuous improvement activities. - Play a key role in preparing for the move to Council’s new Enterprise Resource Planning system.
- Oversee and be responsible for the achievement of statutory processes and timeframes.

**Skills & Experience**
- Tertiary qualification and/or appropriate experience in business, public administration, land use planning or other field relevant to work in a local government office.
- Advantageous:

- Experience in the Victorian planning, building or construction sectors.
- Experience in the local government sector.
- Demonstrated, relevant experience including:

- Staff management and co-ordinating administrative and customer service activities within a busy customer focused department.
- Well-developed skills in administrative practices.
- Well-developed skills to investigate issues and solve problems.
- High level of attention to detail.
- Ability to identify and utilise technological solutions to issues to ensure quality service delivery, and provide on the job technology-based training and support to other staff.
- The ability to extract data from systems for the purpose of preparing reports for other government agencies and internal use.

**Culture**
As a progressive leader in Local Government, Darebin City Council is passionate about social inclusion, sustainability, engagement and service excellence. We are proud of the diversity of our workforce and recognise the strength this provides in meeting the needs of the community we serve. We are committed to upholding a positive and supportive work environment that values the contribution of all employees and treats all employees with dignity and respect.

**Benefits**
We offer a range of benefits to our employees including opportunities for personal and professional development, flexible work practices, Employee Assistance Program, recognition and reward program - Appreciate Great and a variety of generous paid and unpaid leave options.

**How to Apply**

We’re also happy to adjust our recruitment process to support your accessibility needs.

Contact Chad Griffiths, Manager City Development on 8470 8357 or 0472 661 532 for a confidential discussion.

**Applications close on 9 December 2024 at 11.30pm.**

Darebin is committed to providing a safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, and thorough ‘Safety Screening’ processes apply.

To work at Darebin City Council, you will be required to supply proof of work rights, a Victorian Employee Working with Children Check and comply with Child Safety standards. All employees are required to undertake an Australian Criminal History Check and may be required to complete a Functional Health Assessment.

Council requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as outlined in the Staff Covid-19 Vaccination Policy.