Development Manager, Precincts

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time - Flexible

Organisation: Development Victoria

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Property

Reference: 795

**About Us**

At Development Victoria, we’re passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government’s development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

**Your New Role**

If you are a proactive, self-driven professional ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role, we want to hear from you.

Reporting to the Development Director, your key responsibilities will include:

- Coordinating and directing development activities and consultants to meet Development Victoria’s objectives.
- Prepare financial feasibility models and monitor financial performance.
- Manage project costing, cash-flow, and delivery against budgets.
- Direct internal and external project inputs, including planning, design, marketing, and sales.
- Oversee project staff, consultants, and contractors through the complete project lifecycle.
- Administer development agreements and land sales.
- Resolve divestment strategies and negotiate new development deals.
- Implement risk management practices and ensure legal compliance.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**About You**

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in property, project management, civil engineering or finance (postgraduate desirable).
- Experience in property project management.
- Ability to navigate the complexities of legal compliance and development contracts.
- Effective negotiation and communication.
- Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and self-management skills.
- Proven ability and experience in planning, organising and coordinating development, design, construction and marketing of projects.
- Experience managing and directing people to generate successful results.
- Experience in the preparation and analysis of financial feasibility studies, budgeting and tight cost monitoring to achieve profitable outcomes.
- Experience in developing project procurement documentation, scpecifications and overseeing the administration of procurement processes for civil related consultant and construction contracts.
- Experience in overseeing the administration of civil contraction works.
- Managing a team of consultants to undertake design development and investigations in a tight time frame.

**Employee Benefits**
- We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.
- Professional development opportunities available including;
- Study support
- Mentoring programs
- Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
- Novated leasing
- Purchase leave
- Paid parental leave
- Technology salary sacrifice
- Employee referral bonuses
- Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
- Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
- Modern onsite facilities

**Application Process**

**Please note: The interview process will not commence until the new year.**

**We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.