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Senior Development Officer (Planning)
Job No:
CN2503
Location:
Newcastle
- Play a significant role in the growth and development of Newcastle, the central Council to the Region
- Permanent, full-time opportunity
- 35 hour working week with flexible working arrangements and optional 9-day fortnight
City of Newcastle (CN) is looking for a Senior Development Officer (Planning) to join our Regulatory, Planning & Assessment team (RPA), reporting to the Development Coordinator. If you have been looking for an opportunity where you can make a significant contribution, gain exposure to high profile development projects ($800M- $1Billion per year), whilst being supported by a team of highly experienced, passionate and driven professionals, this could be your next career move.
What’s it like working in Regulatory, Planning and Assessment (RPA)?
The RPA Service Unit is responsible for leading strategic land use planning, development assessment, regulatory and compliance functions and processes to facilitate, enable and regulate development and related activities across the Newcastle Local Government Area.
The RPA Service Unit ensures compliance with legislative requirements, provides advice and undertakes assessment to inform evidence-based decision making throughout and across City of Newcastle (CN). The Service Unit has significant direct community and stakeholder engagement through its land use planning, development assessment and regulatory functions.
What’s the focus of this position?
As a Senior Development Officer, you will be part of RPA’s Development Assessment Team. The focus for this role is to assess and determine development applications and provide development planning advice in a timely and professional manner which satisfies statutory requirements and ensures customer satisfaction in a competitive environment, achieving development outcomes consistent with CN’s environmental planning objectives.
You will play a key role in providing advanced professional service and technical planning service to the community, liaise with internal and external key stakeholders and ensure that new developments in the City of Newcastle are consistent with statutory requirements, development policies, applicable relevant codes and environmental legislation.
This role will include the preparation or review of statutory instruments, development control plans, local environmental plans, codes, policies and procedural manuals as directed as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
As a senior member of the team, you will also provide training and mentoring to the RPA team to enhance skills and development and promote CN’s development assessment as customer focused and a best practice service.
Interested to know more?
Find out more about your potential new career here.
CN 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.
Application Closing Date: Sunday 30 May 2021.
Remuneration range: $100,241.85 + 9.5% Superannuation per annum for a 35-hour week.
Contact: Priscilla Emmett- Development Assessment Section Manager - 02 49742763.
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