Manager City Futures

**Join us to c**hampion innovation in urban planning and environmental sustainability.**

Be part of an ambitious team that builds and shapes the city’s future. Whether you’re driving sustainable urban design, championing environmental stewardship and climate adaptation, enhancing open spaces, or managing transformative infrastructure projects, your work will leave a lasting impact.

**Why you'll love this role**

As the Manager of City Futures, you will lead a passionate team dedicated to designing and implementing forward-thinking urban solutions that enhance liveability, connectivity, and environmental sustainability. This leadership role is your opportunity to shape the urban fabric of tomorrow, ensuring our community’s evolving needs are met with innovative, sustainable strategies.

At Banyule City Council, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and future-focused workplace. Together, we’ll create an environment where everyone can live, work, and thrive.

**What you will do**
- Shape and implement a vision for future-ready urban development that aligns with organisational and community goals.
- Implement initiatives to protect and enhance natural assets, address climate change, and promote sustainability.
- Develop long-term plans to guide growth while preserving the city’s unique character.
- Integrate form and function to create resilient, aesthetically pleasing urban environments.

**What you'll bring/what we are looking for**
- Tertiary and/or post graduate qualifications in Urban Planning, Environmental Science, Landscape Architecture or a related discipline.
- Proven senior level experience in strategic planning, urban design, or environmental sustainability
- Proven experience in strategic planning, urban design, open space planning or environmental sustainability.
- Strong leadership skills to inspire and guide a diverse, multidisciplinary team.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- Expertise in delivering projects that balance environmental, social, and economic objectives.
- A commitment to creating inclusive, future-ready urban environments.

**Pre-employment requirements**
- Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) (Previously known as a police check)
- Current Victorian Drivers Licence
- Current Working with Children’s Check
- Psychometric Assessment

**We offer**:

- A leadership role where you’ll shape the city’s future.
- Opportunities to work on innovative, impactful projects that drive sustainability and community well-being.
- A collaborative, supportive work culture that values diversity and inclusion.
- Professional development to help you grow and excel in your career.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave - primary carer/2 weeks of paid parental leave - partner

**Ready to make an impact?**

**How to apply**

Applications close: Sunday, 2 February 2025 at 11:45 PM.

**Why choose Banyule?**

At Banyule City Council, we value innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. City Futures is where innovation meets sustainability. You will lead a department committed to designing vibrant, inclusive spaces and developing strategies that balance growth with environmental responsibility.

**Our Values**: Our employees align their careers with Banyule because they share our values of respect, integrity, responsibility, initiative, and inclusion. They thrive in our strong learning and development culture, and the positive way we work in partnership with the community. You will share our values and have a passion for helping a community of over 130,000 residents to live happier, healthier and more connected lives, all while growing your skills and advancing your career. We look forward to you starting the next chapter of your career at Banyule Council.

**Diversity Statement**: Our community is made up of diverse, cultures, beliefs, abilities, bodies, sexualities, ages, and genders. We are committed to access, equity, participation, and rights for everyone: principles that empower, foster harmony, and increase the well-being of an inclusive community.

To discover more about Banyule's commitment to advancing gender equality in the workplace, please find Banyule's Workplace Gender Equality Action Plan 2021-2025.

**Acknowledgment of the Traditional Custodians**: Banyule City Council is proud to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as Traditional Custodians of the land and we pay respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and emerging, who have resided in the area and have been an integral part of the region’s history.

Banyule City Council endorses the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full and accepts the invitation to walk with First Nations peoples, to a better future for us all.

**Child Safe Standards Statement of Commitment**: Banyule City Council is a child-safe organisation committed to the safety and well-being of children.

Council has a zero tolerance for child abuse. All