Consultant - Smart Places and Environmental Planning

2 days ago

Melbourne, Australia URBIS Full time

**Who we are**:
Urbis is people focussed, and we want the best for our team, our clients, and our communities. Our mission is about helping people create meaningful, sustainable cities & communities. We are a community of passionate problem solvers, sought out by clients for our fresh thinking approach to their city-shaping projects. Here you will make a tangible difference and positive impact, while gaining incredible industry experience and broad ranging exposure to the most exciting work.
We pride ourselves in empowering our employees and supporting them to be the best they can be. You will have the benefits of salary continuance insurance, generous parental leave policy for both primary & secondary carers, work life balance, health & wellbeing programs and much more.
Urbis shaping Futures your way

**The Opportunity**:
Urbis has an exciting opportunity for a consultant to join the Smart and Sustainable Places team within the Planning Unit in Melbourne/Sydney. This is a great opportunity for a motivated individual looking to contribute to the creation of liveable, healthy, and resilient communities.

**You will**:

- Provide a range of services including advice relating to smart city and innovation frameworks, land use advice, development capability, due diligence assessments and planning approvals.
- Respond quickly and communicating in a clear, concise, and transparent manner to internal and external clients.
- Work alongside other professionals on a range of multi-disciplinary projects, working to specification, to deadlines, within budget and with a commercial outcome.
- Providing input into tenders for projects.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of quality assurance initiatives and Planning's Business Plan.
- Promoting the firm and its services to create business opportunities.

**About You**:

- Experience in smart cities, statutory or strategic planning desirable, ideally gained in a consultancy or local government environment.
- Tertiary qualifications in Urban Planning/Studies; Creative thinking and innovation; City related technology or a related discipline
- An appreciation and understanding of the impacts of technology, digital and data issues on land use, planning and development.
- Demonstrate a developing appreciation and understanding of strategic policies, processes, and influences.
- Demonstrate a capacity to integrate, analyse and interpret data. Advantageous to have experience with Power BI or Tableau or similar.
- Demonstrate a developing appreciation and understanding of statutory planning frameworks, controls, and processes.
- Emerging skills and experience in preparing for and presenting effectively in a variety of forums;
- Demonstrate a strong solutions-focused approach to work.

Why Urbis?
Urbis is committed to fostering a work environment that is inclusive, supports flexibility, and welcomes diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.
How to Apply?
Recruitment Agencies - thank you for thinking of us. We do endeavour to fill our opportunities through direct channels wherever possible, however, if we find that we do need agency assistance, we'll be in touch.

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