Senior Urban Designer

About the role
In this role, you will provide high quality strategic urban design advice. You will also be responsible for project management and the research, development and preparation of structure plans, guidelines and policies for the City of Greater Geelong.

Work type: Permanent Full time
Classification: Band 7 ($100,064 - $110,990 pa plus super)

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic urban design expertise to city-wide spatial visions, masterplans, structure plans and other guiding documents, ensuring design thinking is embedded in all projects at all scales.
• Provide design solutions and strategies for a range of place-based projects encompassing residential, mixed use, commercial and industrial master planning commissions.
• Research, develop and prepare strategies, guidelines, policies and urban design initiatives to support the delivery of a high-quality public environment.
• Provide visually compelling communication to enable diverse audiences to imagine and realise the future opportunities for a place, neighbourhood, precinct or a city.
• Contribute to the management of projects to optimise time, cost and quality in their delivery.

About you
To be successful in this role, you will have a relevant tertiary qualification in a built environment/design profession, and extensive practical experience in urban design, preferably within a Local Government environment.

Essential Experience:

• Ability to input into the development of planning and urban design policy, including the analysis and testing of built form proposals (e.g., through modelling) that can support planning scheme amendments.
• A solid understanding of urban design principles, including the ability to constructively critique development application proposals and to provide input into urban renewal strategies and projects (e.g., streetscapes).
• Cognisant of planning practice (strategic and statutory) to ensure design visions and plans translate into policy and deliver great outcomes for the community.
• Ability to research and synthesise community needs, urban trends and history of place in their consideration of future opportunity.
• Demonstrated experience and ability in implementing the design process, including multi-scalar thinking from precinct to human scale.

The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. It is our current policy to ask for your COVID-19 vaccination status. You have the right not to disclose your vaccination status, and successful candidates who are not vaccinated or do not want to disclose will go through a simple risk assessment process.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.  

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger. 

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language.  Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people.  We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you. 

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries
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Candidates are requested to upload their portfolio with their application/resume.

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Applications close Sunday 3 March 2024 at 11:55pm.

Enquiries:  Sabine Provilij | Coordinator Urban Design | 5272 4256 | ********@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at *******@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

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