Senior Transport Planner

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About Us

The Department of Transport & Planning (DTP) brings together all transport modes to design, plan, build and operate Victoria's transport system. Our job is to further integrate the transport network and improve the delivery of services to Victorians for simpler, quicker and safer journeys that connect people and places and support Victoria's prosperity and liveability.

We are focused on outcomes that deliver more choice, connections and confidence in our travel, ensuring the whole transport network works as one to deliver better services and outcomes.

DTP is committed to building a culture where we say 'yes' to flexible work arrangements, provide personal and professional development programs and support ways of working that help employees balance work and life.

DTP is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds, including veterans, people who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a disability, are from varied cultural backgrounds and those who identify as LGBTIQ+. The department provides workplace adjustments for applicants with disabilities.

Job description:

Transport Service is a Group within Department of Transport & Planning, and is responsible for delivering safe, reliable and accessible transport infrastructure and services to all Victorians.

Regional Transport is a Division in Transport Services Group, and is responisble for provideing better transport experience connecting regional communities, businesses and visitors.

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About the Role

Places of work - Benalla and/or Bendigo (Flexibility may be available)

The Senior Transport Planner will coordinate some key activities of the Department's Regional Transport Strategy team in shaping the future Regional transport system to deliver a prosperous, connected and liveable Victoria. The role will consist of proactively partnering across the transport portfolio and with other government departments and agencies, Regional Partnerships and local government stakeholders to advance integrated land use and transport planning outcomes in Regional Victoria. This role will ensure the transport system delivers on the intention of the Transport Integration Act. Particularly ensuring users are at the centre of multimodal transport planning and that this planning is done in an integrated place-based manner across all modes.

Role Specific Requirements

The role necessitates a valid driver's licence and a shift work is required which could involve evening or weekend work including occasional overnight travel.

Position Accountabilities

The role requires to coordinate with various stakeholders including industries, government agencies, and local communities to ensure effective transport planning and management, while leading the development of strategic narratives and priorities for regional transport planning. Additionally, oversee the coordination and delivery of regional transport projects, events, and programs, and integrate transport considerations into land use and economic development activities, including liaising with Aboriginal communities to improve economic and social outcomes.

Key Selection Criteria

• Strategic Planning (Accomplished): Visualise the big picture level; entertains wide-ranging possibilities in developing a vision for the future; Works across a number of timeframes; Translates strategic direction into day-to-day activities.
• Future Focus (Accomplished): Environmental Scanning to monitor external sources and identifies underlying trends; Develops, maintains and uses a variety of systems, processes, and sources to gather information and gain deeper understanding; Uses a range of references and professional networks to conduct specific research.
• Communication (Accomplished): Excellent written communication to prepare complex briefs, letters, emails and reports using clear, concise and grammatically correct language; Edits written communications to ensure they contain the information necessary to achieve their purpose and meet audience needs; Ensures appropriate style and formats are used.
• Stakeholder Management (Accomplished): Gains agreement to proposals and ideas; Builds behind-the-scenes support for ideas to ensure buy-in and ownership; Uses chains of indirect influence to achieve outcomes (e.g. ‘Gets A to show B so B will tell C'); Involves experts or other third parties to strengthen a case.
• Team Management (Accomplished): Cooperates and works well with others in the pursuit of team goals; Collaborates and shares information; Shows consideration, concern and respect for others' feelings and ideas; Accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others; Encourages resolution of conflict within group.
• Partnering & Co-creation (Accomplished): Identifies issues in common for one or more stakeholders and uses this to build mutually beneficial partnerships; Identifies and responds to stakeholder's underlying needs; Uses understanding of the stakeholder's organisational context to ensure outcomes are achieved; Finds innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues.
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (Accomplished): Well developed conceptual and analytical ability to deal with concepts and complexity comfortably; Uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.
• Generate new ideas; Draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; Actively influences events and promotes ideas; Translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; Reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.

Qualifications and Experience

Desirable

• Multiyear experience in transport or land planning would be desirable.

• A relevant tertiary degree, particularly in transport or land use planning, would be well regarded.

What we offer

• Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
• Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
• A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
• Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
• Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
• We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture

Culture Value

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

How to Apply

Click the ‘Apply' button and follow the prompts. Applications should include a resume and a cover letter.

Applications close 11.59pm on Wednesday 15th May 2024. For further information about the role please contact Bruno Spandonide - Associate Director - Loddon Mallee Hume Transport Strategy - ***************@transport.vic.gov.au

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Transport and Planning will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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