Address- Detail-oriented, proactive, customer focused and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment.
- Full time limited tenure role until June 2025 with flexible hours available.
- Rewarding remuneration Band 5 $76,940 plus super with a monthly RDO.
The City of Casey is one of Victoria’s largest, fastest growing and most diverse cities. The Council plans and delivers quality services and infrastructure for the more than 400,000 residents who call Casey home.
Our workspace is located within Bunjil Place, a must-visit destination nestled within Narre Warren in Melbourne’s south east. Bunjil Place reflects and enhances the city’s rich diversity by providing an energetic and cosmopolitan atmosphere through a lively community meeting place.
Benefits | City of Casey
- A supportive learning culture where you can grow your career and even your qualifications.
- A hybrid and flexible workplace.
- Multi-award-winning architectural office building with equipped Kitchens, onsite Café, Library, and so much more.
- 2 minutes’ walk to Westfield shopping centre, free onsite carpark, gym/pool with discounted memberships and free workout Wednesday.
We live our values of dreaming big, empowering each other, and making our community proud.
A bit about the role
This role will support with the implementation and administration of Statutory Planning controls.
You will provide front line resolution and assistance for customer enquiries, while assisting in ensuring the provision of efficient, high-quality Planning and Subdivisions services to the public.
What you’ll deliver
- Assist other Planning staff in providing efficient and quality Planning Services.
- Prepare draft Committee and Council reports, and reports on matters delegated to senior officers, together with appropriate recommendations for consideration by the Manager and/or Team Leader.
- Provide advice to the Team Leader and Head Of on Statutory Planning issues when requested.
- Act as a solution focused customer experience specialist to resolve customer enquiries and complaints.
- Prepare correspondence relating to reports, enquiries and practice notes for The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
- Assist senior staff within the Planning Department with research and administrative support as required.
- Provide administrative support to the team.
What you’ll bring
- Substantial progress towards a relevant Degree or Diploma desirable.
- Current Victorian drivers license.
- Excellent customer service.
- Ability to work in a face paced environment.
- Willingness to undergo pre-employment background checks including National Criminal History Check, Working with Children Check & Eligibility to Work check,
- A curious, collaborative, and inclusive community mindset.
What’s next?
If you think this role might be for you, we would love to hear from you.
Please apply by following the links and attaching a cover letter and resume. We do not require any selection criteria to be addressed.
Position Description: Planning Assistant - PD 2024 04 22.pdf
To find out more about the role, please contact Louie Chen, Principal Statutory Planner, on 9709 9419 and ******@casey.vic.gov.au
Applications will be accepted until 11.55pm on 16 May 2024.
We encourage people with a disability, lived experience of disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this position.
The City of Casey has zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is embedded in the everyday thinking and practice of all employees, contractors and volunteers.
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