$94K – $119K Total Remuneration Package

$83K – $105K Base Salary

Location: Maroochydore

Vacancy No: 6004

Permanent - Full-time

Applications close: Sunday, 27 April 2025 11:59pm AEST

Why work with us?

At Council, we’re proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you’ll want to join our team!

With the vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region - Healthy, Smart, and Creative, council is at the forefront of delivering a number of region-shaping projects that will see the region become a hub for innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity, along with opportunities and a lifestyle for all to enjoy.

About the Role

The Development Services branch enables sustainable development for the community on the Sunshine Coast by working with industry stakeholders to achieve timely, customer focused development assessment services, advice and advocacy in the areas of planning, engineering, environment, landscape, building, plumbing and legislative compliance.

The Senior Development Compliance Officer provides leadership and management for the Development Compliance team, which is responsible for development and land use compliance services and advice; achieving good development outcomes for our community in accordance with the planning scheme and other relevant legislation and policies.

As the Senior Development Compliance Officer, you will:

Provide leadership to your team through mentoring, coaching, training, advising, guiding, empowering and supporting.

Coordinate complex development compliance complaints, investigations and actions in accordance with the provisions and processes in the relevant legislation and policies.

Manage, process, assess and negotiate on a range of complex and potentially sensitive development compliance matters, working with a multi-disciplinary team while maintaining a strong customer service focus.

Adopt a strategic approach in initiating research and implementing innovative methods to progress and implement Council's development compliance procedures and systems.

Such other relevant duties as detailed on the Position Profile

This position is primarily remote, but is based at the Sunshine Coast City Hall, in the heart of Maroochydore CBD. This state of the art and sustainable building is designed to achieve an innovative and collaborative workspace.

About you

You will possess strong leadership skills which allow you to promote and imbed a customer focused approach with demonstrated time management and a proven track record of initiative and autonomy in making decisions with contemporary project management practices.

You want to chip in and help, relishing the variety and complexity of our projects and the professional growth they provide.

You will have demonstrated ability to operate effectively within a political environment and the overall structure and business operations of a large local government.

Ideally, you will also have detailed knowledge of and experience with relevant legislation, regulations, standards, polices, planning scheme and state government codes.

As a requirement of this role, you will possess recognised qualifications in urban planning and/or development compliance, with demonstrated application and high-level experience of such learning in the workplace.

Appointment to this position is subject to completion of a pre-employment medical assessment and a satisfactory completion of a Criminal History Check.

Our Culture & Employee Benefits

Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits and working styles to suit you:

Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us therefore we offer a number of different initiatives such as discounted health related memberships, fitness passport, employee assistance program and development opportunities.

Flexibility: We know it is important to balance life and work, therefore we offer flexible working including a 9-day fortnight and a hybrid WFH model that help you be your best.

Extras: Those extras make a difference therefore we offer salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation, smartphones and devices. We also pay you 17.5% leave loading and generous Superannuation where council will contribute 12% Superannuation in addition to your 6% superannuation contribution.

How to apply

Your written application should include:

A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and

A current resume or curriculum vitae.

Once you have these two documents ready, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to complete your application.

Further Information

Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.

To learn more about Council’s vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan 2024-2028.

For specific enquiries contact Stephanie Knobel during business hours on 0437 810 983.

We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team [email protected].

At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.