$135K – $153K Total Remuneration Package

$119K – $135K Base Salary

Location: Maroochydore

Vacancy No: 6044

Permanent - Full-time

Applications close: Sunday, 18 May 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

Provide expert planning advice, comprehensive assessment, and leadership in relation to development applications, appeals, politically sensitive requests, corporate activities and other matters, ensuring compliance with statutory timelines and promoting a consistent approach for planning assessment activities to achieve Council’s growth management and sustainability.

Lead and coordinate the provision of expert planning advice and the efficient assessment of development applications.

Provide strong leadership to staff of the Team through mentoring, coaching, training, advising, guiding, empowering and support to maximise the functional performance of the Team.

Project manage, process, assess and negotiate on a range of highly complex development applications as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in a timely manner, while maintaining a strong customer service focus.

Prepare high quality expert reports, recommendations, correspondence, briefing notes and information documents relevant to development assessment, appeals and other statutory matters.

Build and enhance professional working relationships, both internally and externally, that support and improve service delivery, communication, productivity and best practice community outcomes.

About you

Possession of recognised tertiary qualifications in urban planning, with demonstrated application of such learning in the workplace. Qualifications needed to satisfy membership status (or eligibility to become a member) of the Planning Institute of Australia.

You will possess strong project management skills and have significant experience in coordinating and delivering applications and projects requiring high levels of consultation, integration and negotiation to achieve successful outcomes often within a political environment and with stakeholders with competing interests.

You will also have extensive interpersonal and communication skills as an experienced senior leader with particular emphasis in the areas of advocacy, liaison, consultation, building effective relationships and cohesive teams, negotiation, conflict resolution and assertiveness with the ability to meet changing organisational needs within a diverse and political environment.

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 Tegan Johnson during business hours on 0439 585 372.

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.