AddressDo you want your work to make a difference for NSW?
Together, we create thriving environments, communities and economies.
- Make a real impact: Directly contribute to the revitalisation and vibrancy of cities and towns across NSW through a new collaborative placemaking program.
- Temporary - Full-time position (currently to May 2025), with the possibility of extension
- Based in our Sydney CBD office with hybrid working supported
- Clerk Grade 9/10 - Salary relative to experience, and ranges from $120,859 to $133,183 + super
Great places are at the heart of public life. Through collaboration across local and state government, industry and the broader community, our programs aim to help reinvigorate public spaces including streets and transport hub precincts. Creating places where people feel welcomed, connected and love to be means addressing wellbeing, walkability, amenity and activation. Our programs support pilot and demonstration projects aimed at building capacity and delivering best practice place-led approaches.
The Cities Revitalisation and Place Branch are a team of strategists, policy-makers, place-managers, project managers, planners and storytellers that improve and shine a spotlight on public space in NSW.
As the Manager Place Programs, you will be at the forefront in the delivery of a new placemaking program to achieve quality walkable public spaces and places. In this leadership role, you undertake a dynamic range of activities to support the planning, scoping, and management of placemaking projects and initiatives for quality places across NSW.
About You
At the heart of this role lies innovation fuelled by collaboration. You will be part of a fast-paced team delivering high-profile programs to realise quality project outcomes for Cities Revitalisation and Place.
A highly organised leader, you'll be fostering stakeholder engagement with a diverse range of internal and external partners to achieve project outcomes. You will harness your skills in project management to orchestrate seamless execution across multiple work streams from managing the grant funding process to ensuring the schedule and timelines remain on track and delivering reporting associated with the work.
Essential Requirements
- A tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in creative placemaking, project management, urban planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Key Skills and Experience
- Demonstrated experience working in the delivery of placemaking projects
- Demonstrated experience in the design and implementation of grant programs
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working collaboratively to achieve successful place and project outcomes
- Demonstrated project management and coordination skills for the management and delivery of placemaking projects.
- Experience in the planning and delivery of complex projects in urban renewal, urban and regional planning or management of public spaces.
For more information read the full Role Description: Manager, Place Programs
For more information hit Apply or visit the iworkfor.nsw.gov.au website.
About Us
Transport for NSW keeps our State moving by providing safe, integrated and efficient transport systems. We put our customers at the centre of everything we do – and we do a lot. We connect people, communities and industry and manage how they use our road, rail and maritime networks and services, and active modes like walking and cycling. The work we do connects the journeys you take every day.
We are in the middle of delivering the largest transport infrastructure program in Australia's history. We work across planning, policy and procurement, harnessing data and technology to develop smarter and more adaptive transport solutions.
The Branch
The Cities and Active Transport Branch ensures our cities and neighbourhoods are integrated with transport and we make our streets and public places functional, beautiful, inclusive, and inviting for all to enjoy.
We do this through creating alignment across government on strategic outcomes and a focus on excellence in placemaking and quality design.
To Apply
Please note, the Department of Housing, Planning & Infrastructure (DPHI) currently provides recruitment services to Department of Transport
If excited by the information above, we look forward to receiving your application, including a copy of your resume and cover letter expressing your interest and suitability for the role.
Applications close 30 June 2024 at 11:55pm.
Should you require further information about the role please contact Senior Manager, Place Programs, Bob Whight **********@transport.nsw.gov.au or 0430 708 ***
A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.
Looking for more information or assistance in applying?
Our Diversity team can assist to:
- provide alternative formats to apply
- make adjustments to the recruitment process
- offer information about workplace adjustments and support networks
We encourage people with disability to apply. If you have disability and require more information on adjustments and assistance to apply, contact the Diversity team on *********@DPIE.nsw.gov.au (please include reference number).
If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander check out Our Mob on Country https://www.dpie.nsw.gov.au/premiers-priorities/our-mob-on-country to see the work we do and get assistance in applying.
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