Development Officer (Heritage Planner)

Job No: CN2094

Location: Newcastle, NSW

Employment Status: Permanent Full Time

No. of Vacancies: 1

Closing Date: 7 Oct 2019 AEDT

• Exciting opportunity to bring your sound leadership in heritage and conservation skills to the role.
• Thrive on building collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Permanent Full time – 35 hours per week.
• Flexible working with optional 9-day fortnight.

Located 160 km north of Sydney, Newcastle is New South Wales’ second largest city, and offers the perfect lifestyle and career environment.

Our City is thriving and rapidly transforming. In recent years Newcastle has experienced a significant increase in development activity, with the 2017-18 Financial Year seeing building approvals top $1.2 billion.

Our City Change project involves moving our employees from our Office in the Civic precinct to 12 Stewart Avenue, Newcastle West in October 2019. This creates a great opportunity to align staff with our organisational vision, values and strategic directions, and leverage the great work the organisation is undertaking which supports cultural improvement.

City of Newcastle (CN) is looking for an experience Heritage Planner to assess development applications to ensure the City’s heritage assets are identified, conserved, protected, and interpreted consistent with best practise heritage conservation principles, which is consistent with statutory requirements, adopted codes/policies.

Working as part of our busy Regulatory, Planning and Assessment service unit, you will provide heritage and technical conservation advice to CN, internal and external stakeholders as guided by the team.

Your professionalism will promote the City's reputation as a competent, efficient and courteous service provider, consistently delivering high quality heritage development outcomes while maintaining a strong customer service focus.

Utilising your experience and knowledge you will manage heritage related projects and activities, community consultation and preparing reports and briefings to CN.

At CN our people are valued and have access to a range of benefits that help balance life at work and at home. These include flexible working arrangements, professional development opportunities and health and wellbeing programs.

To be successful in this job you will need;

• Tertiary qualifications in Heritage Conservation, Architecture, Urban Planning, Town Planning or a related qualification, and/or demonstrated capability through past employment experience.
• Extensive experience in the application of heritage conservation principles including experience and demonstrated competence in the assessment and determination of development applications, including conducting progress inspections on development projects.
• Extensive experience in heritage assessment and heritage impact assessment.
• Knowledge of the provisions of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, the NSW Heritage Act 1977 and any other regulations and legislation relevant to heritage.
• Demonstrated problem solving, research and analytical skills related to heritage, project management with ability to competently address heritage technical issues.
• Sound written and oral communication skills including demonstrated negotiation and conflict resolution skills, computer literacy and proven ability to prepare clear and comprehensive reports and correspondence on complex development matters.
• Ability to manage work priorities efficiently and to work independently with a minimum of supervision, with a strong customer service focus.
• Demonstrated ability to monitor heritage development matters (approved or otherwise) and to take appropriate action to ensure compliance with relevant statutory requirements.
• Class C drivers’ licence.

Desirable

• Post Graduate qualification in Urban Design or a design related qualification, and/or demonstrated capability through past employment experience.
• Proven experience in dealing with and resolving complex heritage development or building issues, complaints or enquiries.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple development projects and teams within strict deadlines including the co-ordination of multi-disciplinary input into development projects.
• Experience and competence in the collection and preparation of evidence in relevant legal proceedings.
• Ability to participate in organisational change strategies, service delivery and policy reform.
• Experience working in Local Government in New South Wales.

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City of Newcastle proudly promotes the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and fosters a culture of diversity to represent the community of our Local Government Area.

All candidates will be assessed against the selection criteria outlined in the position description. Suitable candidates may be placed on an eligibility list for future identical positions for a period of 12 months.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

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Application Closing Date: 6 October 2019.

Remuneration: $98,760 - $107,648 + 9.5% Superannuation per annum for a 35-hour week.

Contact: Michelle Bisson, Manager Regulatory Planning & Assessment, 02 4974 2793.