
Technical Officer - Property
Tweed Shire Council
Posted 1 day ago
Join our Governance team as a Technical Officer - Property and help shape your community! Support the Senior Technical Property Officer with property management, road naming and numbering, land classification and statutory land dealings. This is a hands-on role providing expert paralegal and administrative support to deliver key property services to Council and the public.
About the role:
- Support the Senior Technical Property Officer in delivering expert property services within the Governance team.
- Undertake property transactions and statutory dealings—including acquisitions, disposals, licences, easements, road closures and airspace agreements, in line with legislation.
- Implement addressing systems, including house numbering and road naming across the local government area.
- Manage Council-owned residential properties and investigate the status and use of public roads.
- Prepare and process leases, licences, acquisitions, disposals and other property transactions including easements, caveats and encroachments, in line with legislation to benefit Council and the community.
What's on offer:
- a base salary ranging from $74,572 per annum with competency-based increments up to $87,551 per annum, plus 12% super
- 70 hour, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list - click here for more).
We are seeking:
- Tertiary or professional qualifications in a relevant property field (such as law, valuation, land economics, commerce, project management) or extensive experience in the government property sector.
- Proven experience managing property leases, assets and undertaking statutory property transactions, including acquisitions and disposals.
- Strong understanding of legal property documents, land titles and subdivision processes, with the ability to resolve complex land title issues.
- Sound knowledge of legislation and key issues impacting local government property portfolios.
- Excellent communication skills and a current driver's licence to engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders across the community.
About us:
- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Tweed Shire Council is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourages applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in both traditional and non-traditional roles. We provide workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options.
- Join an employer of choice. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.
Where it's located:
This position is based in Murwillumbah and can be directed to work from any Council work site.
Position closes:
Friday 25 July 2025 at 12 noon sharp (NSW time). Late applications will not be permitted.
SK97188A
OFFICE USE ONLY
About Tweed Shire Council
Tweed Shire Council is the largest council on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Covering an area of 1300 square kilometres, the Tweed adjoins the local government areas of Byron, Lismore, Kyogle, Scenic Rim and Gold Coast, with the NSW–Queensland border to its north where it divides the twin towns of Tweed Heads and Coolangatta.
Council is the largest employer in the Tweed with a workforce of more than 750 employees across a wide range of professions. Through a budget of about $256 million, Council delivers more than 50 services to 41,500 ratepayers and almost 100,000 residents who call the Tweed home.
In late 2021, Council was named Employer of Choice by Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) for its great employment practices within NSW local government.
Professionals Australia recognises what workers throughout the region already know – people choose to work at Tweed Shire Council when presented with other employment opportunities due to its:
employment terms
great workplace culture
amazing location.
Aboriginal Acknowledgement – Tweed Shire Council wishes to recognise the generations of the local Aboriginal people of the Bundjalung Nation who have lived in and derived their physical and spiritual needs from the forests, rivers, lakes and streams of this beautiful valley over many thousands of years as the traditional custodians of these lands.
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