• Full Time Fixed Term, 10 Day Fortnight, 40 hours per week

• $138,896- $156,527 plus Super

• Position Brief -Coordinator Landscape Assessment

We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and collaborative leader to join our City Development Branch as Coordinator Landscape Assessment. In this key leadership role, you will coordinate and lead a specialist team of landscape professionals responsible for the assessment of both public landscape works associated with development and privately owned landscape installations across a diverse range of development types.

The landscape matters assessed by your team will span childcare centres, townhouse and high‑rise residential developments, commercial and retail centres, medical facilities, industrial and warehouse developments, as well as public realm and open space works delivered as part of development approvals. Your leadership will ensure that landscape outcomes—whether publicly or privately owned—contribute positively to the City’s environmental performance, streetscape quality, amenity, and long‑term liveability.

You will be responsible for coordinating consistent, high‑quality, and customer‑focused landscape assessment outcomes that balance development objectives with public interest, legislative requirements, and City standards. Through strong leadership, sound judgement, and effective resource management, you will support informed decision‑making and high‑performing assessment outcomes across a fast‑paced and complex development environment.

Working closely with planning, engineering, environmental, and asset management teams—as well as developers and industry consultants—you will play a critical role in ensuring that development delivers high‑quality landscape outcomes that integrate seamlessly with public infrastructure and the broader urban environment.

If you are a capable people leader with a passion for green infrastructure, development assessment, and building strong, resilient teams, we want to hear from you

About the team:

City Development is responsible for the management and assessment of development applications, developer contributions, planning appeals, research, and the provision of expert planning, building, and technical advice.

Within City Development, the Engineering and Landscape Assessment (ELA) Business Unit provides specialist development assessment services across engineering, landscape, and open space disciplines. ELA works collaboratively with internal planning, infrastructure, environmental, and asset management teams to deliver integrated, well‑informed decisions that support high‑quality development and long‑term community benefit.

About the role: 

As the Coordinator Landscape Assessment, you will provide leadership, coordination, and operational oversight to a team of landscape and open space assessment professionals. Your team is responsible for assessing landscape proposals at both the conceptual and construction stages, ensuring compliance with planning schemes, conditions of approval, standards, and relevant legislation.

You will lead the assessment of landscape and open space components of development applications across public and privately owned domains, ensuring outcomes that protect environmental values, enhance amenity, and support the City’s strategic vision for sustainability, resilience, and design quality.

Reporting to the Manager of Engineering and Landscape Assessment, you will play a key role in:

• Managing team performance and workloads
• Providing expert technical and strategic advice on complex and high‑risk applications
• Strengthening business processes, consistency, and service delivery outcomes
• Building capability, resilience, and professional growth within the team

Your leadership will be central to translating policy and standards into practical, high‑quality landscape outcomes that support both development feasibility and long‑term public value.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide strong leadership, direction, and coordination of the landscape assessment team, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives, service standards, and statutory requirements.
• Demonstrate effective people and business management capability, including workload planning, performance monitoring, mentoring, and supporting staff development.
• Act as the primary escalation and coordination point for complex, high‑risk, or sensitive landscape assessment matters across both public and private development contexts.
• Foster a proactive, solutions‑focused assessment culture by working collaboratively with internal stakeholders and industry professionals to resolve complex issues and achieve high‑quality landscape outcomes.
• Provide expert advice and strategic input to planners, engineers, internal departments, and other stakeholders to support integrated decision‑making, policy development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain oversight of incoming development applications, ensuring equitable distribution of work, diversity of experience for officers, and appropriate handling of complex matters.
• Review and approve technical memorandums, assessment reports, and recommendations, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with legislative frameworks, planning schemes, and City standards.
• Drive team performance through effective communication, regular meetings, monitoring of key metrics, and the implementation of structured mentoring, coaching, and technical training programs

We’re looking for people who have: 

• Demonstrated and well‑developed leadership capability, with proven experience in coordinating professional staff and managing workloads in a complex, high‑volume assessment or regulatory environment. Tertiary qualifications in business, leadership and/or management are desirable and will be well regarded.
• Strong business and people management skills, including the ability to support performance, build capability, and foster a positive, high‑performing team culture.
• A consistent track record of delivering high‑quality, customer‑focused outcomes through collaboration, sound judgement, and practical, solution‑oriented advice.
• The ability to interpret and apply planning schemes, landscape standards and specifications, and relevant legislative frameworks within a development assessment context.
• Well‑developed organisational and time‑management skills, with the ability to adapt and respond effectively in a fast‑paced and dynamic environment.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, professional development, and constructive engagement with feedback.
• A Bachelor Degree in Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, or a related discipline, or equivalent knowledge and experience within a development assessment environment.

Be part of shaping the Gold Coast’s future 

The Gold Coast is inspired by lifestyle and driven by opportunity. We are the second largest Council in Australia.  

We care about being the most flexible government organisation in Australia. We have a range of benefits to help you create the right balance:   

• Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle, including hybrid/work from home options, flexible working hours and locations  
• Personal and professional development courses 
• Access to 350+ fitness facilities through Fitness Passport  
• 4 free confidential counselling sessions a year for you or an immediate family member 
• 1 free nutritionist and financial advice session per year 

 We pride ourselves on our shared mission of being a high-performing, customer-focused organisation which delivers value-for-money services to the community.  

How to apply:

To submit your application, please click apply now and complete the application form. You will be required to upload your resume and a cover letter (no more than two pages) outlining how your skills, experience and personal attributes will enable you to be successful in this role. Please note that you may also be asked to provide relevant qualifications, where applicable.

Contact Person: Cameron Taylor 

Contact Email:    CAMTAYLOR@goldcoast.qld.gov.au 

Closing Date:      11:59pm Tuesday 24th March 2026   

Our selection process may include a one-way video interview via Criteria, a face-to-face or virtual interview via Microsoft Teams, reference checks via Xref and additional checks including police checks, employment history checks, qualification checks, pre-employment medical reviews and drug and alcohol testing.  

We’re committed to creating a diverse workplace and inclusive culture. We take pride in people who align with our high-performance principles. We believe that the diverse makeup of our workforce reflects the community we serve. We consider all qualified candidates for employment, irrespective of race, age, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics by law.