Statutory Planning

**Employment Status**: Permanent, Full Time
**Days & Hours of Work**:Monday - Friday totalling 38 hours per week
**Competitive Salary**:Band 6 (starting at $98,867) + 11.5% superannuation
**Location**:Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home

**About Us**:
We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do**:Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**, **Customer Experience** and **Results Matter**.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving - and excited about our future - as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity exists to make a real difference to our beautiful Bayside municipality where you will be working to ensure proper and orderly land use, development and arboricultural outcomes within the Bayside Planning Scheme and related local laws and strategies.

You will be responsible for:

- Supporting the department via managing and providing advice to planning referrals for landscape requirements and tree removal or retention.

**Key Selection Criteria**:
To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

- Proven ability to provide accurate, specialist information and advice to customers regarding various facets of statutory planning and arboricultural related matters.
- Demonstrated ability to use word processing, spreadsheets, as well as planning process administration and records management tools.
- Demonstrated ability to provide a very high standard of service to customers.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute effectively in a team environment.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Town Planning or associated fields of expertise (minimum Certificate V in Arboriculture or equivalent) and/or experience that will enable the successful undertaking of the requirements of the position.

**Mandatory pre-employment requirements**:

- Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check.
- Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check
- Be willing to undertake a premedical assessment check (if applicable for the role).

**What we can offer you in return**:

- A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
- A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach.
- Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel.
- A Green Money program, that rewards our staff for taking simple everyday steps to a more substantiable and climate aware living.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

**How to apply**:

- To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description.
- If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager.

**Applications close**: Monday 17 February, 11:55pm
- Bayside City Council prides itself on its values of _**_Respect Each Other_**_, _**_Own It_**_, _**_Work Together_**_ and _**_Find Better Ways_**_._
- Bayside City Council proudly acknowledges the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging as well as all Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community members with us today._