New Planning Scheme Spatial Analyst Lead

**Job Number**:
500736

**The details**:

- Permanent Full Time
- $153,824pa + 12% super (level 8.5 + 10%)
- Great news - EBA6 currently is underway, with a proposed increase of 5%
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Caboolture

Join City of Moreton Bay as a Planning Scheme Spatial Analyst Lead and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for spatial analytics and urban planning? The City of Moreton Bay is seeking a Strategic Planning Spatial Analyst Lead to provide leadership and technical oversight in the delivery of expert spatial services, with a focus on New Planning Scheme preparation over the next five years.

This pivotal role will lead a team of specialist Spatial Analysts, delivering high-quality spatial services to the Strategic Planning and Place Making (SPPM) team, and occasionally to the broader Planning Directorate. You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our city through delivery of spatial analytics and mapping solutions supported by governance and quality control.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead a team of specialist Spatial Analysts undertaking the delivery of expert spatial services
- Lead the delivery of complex spatial and non-spatial data analytics using tools such as ArcGIS, Python, SQL, and R.
- Provide expert advice on spatial data capture, mapping services, metadata creation, and data governance.
- Oversee statutory mapping and GIS layer governance for the New Planning Scheme and future planning scheme amendments.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to meet mapping and GIS requirements and track key milestones.
- Represent the department on various projects, offering strategic and technical advice.

**About you**

You are a strategic and technically skilled professional with a passion for urban planning and spatial analytics. You thrive in dynamic environments and are confident leading teams and projects that shape the future of communities. Your expertise spans across GIS technologies, data modelling, and stakeholder engagement, and you bring a collaborative mindset to solving complex spatial challenges.

You will bring:

- Expert knowledge of urban planning principles and experience in urban planning projects.
- Advanced proficiency in Geographical Information Systems (GIS), including spatial data capture, mapping, and governance.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using software tools for spatial data manipulation and presentation.
- Technical expertise in programming languages such as Python, SQL, and R, and familiarity with 3D modelling and ArcGIS Online/Enterprise.
- Project leadership experience, including risk management and delivery of complex spatial solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex planning concepts and negotiate sustainable outcomes.
- Proven ability to provide leadership through change and uncertainty in a rapidly evolving policy environment.
- A collaborative approach to building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Position Description_New Planning Scheme Spatial Analyst Lead.pdf

**Why City of Moreton Bay?**

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what _can be_ - for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

- **See it.** To build a city of the future, first, you have to _see it_. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our region. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- **Shape it.** You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters - and it’s yours to shape and own.
- **Live it.** Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

- Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training and Research Scheme (STARS).
- Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
- Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
- Get support when you and your family n