Development Manager

**Johnathan Thurston Academy**

Taking employment back to basics. We simply introduce jobseeker to jobs It's that simple.

The Johnathan Thurston Academy, with Lendlease as our major employment partner, has a unique collaborative employment zone. The goal and focus is to connect job seekers to all of our employment partners throughout the nation. We aim to ensure that all opportunities for potential connections are both exhausted and managed in the one zone. We have created a unique and sophisticated platform that streamlines all employment opportunities between job seekers and employers.

**Client: Lendlease**
**Location: Canberra**
**Position: Full time**

**REQ-7057003**

Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate and investment group with core expertise in shaping cities and creating strong and connected communities.

Being bold and innovative characterises our approach and doing what matters defines our intent.

We create award-winning urban precincts, new communities for older people and young families just starting out, retail precincts, and work places to the highest sustainability standards. We are also privileged to create essential civic and social infrastructure including state-of-the-art hospitals, universities and stadiums around the world.

Headquartered in Sydney, our people are located in four operating regions: Australia, Europe, the Americas and Asia.

We currently have an opportunity for a Development Manager to join our Retirement Living business in our Canberra office. The position is for an initial 12-month term, with the potential of further extensions to the term.

The Retirement Living business is transitioning to a growth strategy led by organic development growth. This will involve new developments which include villa built-form, low, mid and high-rise apartment living and renewal development of our existing villages for an exclusive owner-occupier market.

**THE ROLE**:

- As Development Manager you will initially lead and deliver the Gold Creek retirement village development in Canberra, a retirement living development (adjoining The Grove Retirement Village).
- The Development will include 45 Independent Living Units and facilitation of an Aged Care facility on an adjoining site.
- Leading the project team on site to achieve targets by safely and efficiently delivering the project
- Liaising with the community and local government, sales teams whilst optimising revenues and project KPI’s.

**ABOUT YOU**:

- You will have exceptional stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated experience managing relationships both internally and externally
- Building networks and leveraging relationships to maximise opportunities
- A genuine passion for retirement living and the value it provides to residents and their families.
- You will be a team player who will work with technical specialists and the wider RL development team to build success.

At Lendlease our vision is to create the best places not just for our clients and communities, but especially for our employees. With 71 villages currently under management we are Australasia’s largest owner, operator and developer of retirement villages. Lendlease is a diverse, flexible and inclusive employer of choice. We engage, enable and empower our people. Inclusion sets us all up for success.

Please note: The successful applicant must be willing to complete a Police Check

We embrace the value of a vibrant and diverse workforce and recognise that our people have different experiences and needs at different times. Lendlease is a diverse, flexible and inclusive employer of choice. We engage, enable and empower our people and support their individual needs. Inclusion sets us all up for success.