AddressCompany description:
About Us
The Department of Transport and Planning oversees key planning, transport and land use policy decisions and management across the State. A life-cycle approach to planning, building, connecting and sustaining communities means our people can come together to; improve services, deliver sustainable projects, focus on customer engagement, streamline regulatory approval pathways, facilitate community consultation and better realise local economic opportunities for more liveable communities across Victoria.
Transport Services deliver transport services across all modes that provides a single user interface to the transport network.
We're 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.
Job description:
About the Role
The role is to effectively to lead, manage, motivate and develop a team to achieve successful business outcomes. This role will manage work activities, monitor performance, and provide leadership to maintain an effective and motivated team. The Statutory Planning function includes responsibilities to review and respond to planning applications referred to the department under the Planning & Environment Act 1987 in a timely, coordinated and efficient manner.
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Position Outcomes
The candidate should effectively lead, manage, and develop a team to achieve business outcomes and ensure timely responses to planning application referrals. They should oversee the planning and regulation of land use to enhance the transport network while complying with statutory requirements. The candidate must be capable of representing the department at senior meetings and hearings, negotiating with key stakeholders on development impacts, and providing expert planning advice on complex applications. Additionally, they should lead strategic business planning, change management, financial management, and resource management activities, and assess high-risk planning referrals, seeking necessary approvals from senior management.
• Managing People - Applied. Communicates role expectations and purpose; recognises deviation from values, performance standards and provides timely and constructive feedback; Understands individual needs to optimise employee engagement.
• Develop Capability- Applied. Actively seeks to improve others' skills and talents by providing knowledge, constructive feedback, coaching and learning opportunities; Consistently develops team capability; Recognise and develop potential in others.
• Customer Focus - Accomplished. Identifies and responds to customer requirements; Use understanding of the customers' context to tailor services and ensure outcomes are delivered; Effectively manages risks to service delivery.
• Interpersonal Skills - Applied- Sees things from another's point of view and confirms understanding; Understand motivations, needs and wants of stakeholders and their impact on service delivery; Tailor communications according to audience and/or audience preference
• Stakeholder Management - Accomplished. Identifies issues in common for one or more clients or stakeholders and uses them 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 - Applied. Takes into account wider business context within business unit when considering options to resolve issues. Identifies recurring problems and prevents future recurrence by integrating solutions into work process. Delivers tangible business outcomes as a result of critically evaluating problems from multiple perspectives and delivering effective solutions.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Flexibility and adaptability (Applied) - Accept changed priorities without undue discomfort. Responds quickly to changes. Comfortable working in collaboration with teams outside of own organisation.
- Outcomes Thinking - Applied. Works with sense of purpose within the team and enables others to understand the strategic direction of the branch and organisation; Creates a sense of purpose within the team by establishing links between work and impact to the community.
- Working Collaboratively - Applied. Build a supportive and cooperative team environment; Engages other teams to share information in order to understand or respond to issues; Support others in challenging situations.
Qualifications and Experience
Mandatory
• Tertiary qualification relevant to Statutory Planning and/or Traffic Engineering, and/or extensive relevant experience.
Desirable
• Experience relevant to the accountabilities and capabilities of the role.
• Experience in growth area planning.
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 se 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 on5th June 2024. For further information about the role please contact Dwayne Singleton, Manager Statutory Planning via ***************@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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