As our Principal Planner, you’ll lead and coordinate TMR’s input for planning appeals, collaborate with development assessment officers and technical specialists and provide expert advice on complex development applications. You’ll support policy development, contribute to technical guidelines, and help enhance TMR’s electronic Development Application Management system. This role is perfect for a relationship-builder who thrives on teamwork, cross-agency collaboration, and delivering specialist planning solutions in a dynamic environment.

Job details

In the role of Principal Planner (Development Compliance and Support) some of your responsibilities will include:
• Collaborating with TMR development assessment officers, leading and coordinating TMR's input for planning appeals.
• Collaborating with development assessment officers, technical specialists and officers from the State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA) to progress the assessment of complex development applications that have been escalated.
• Providing responses to requests for specialist town planning and technical advice and support from TMR's development assessment and policy officers, technical specialists and senior management.
• Providing input to policies, codes, technical guidelines and TMR's electronic Development Application Management system to further TMR's interests in development assessment.
• Developing, maintaining and leveraging positive working relationships with your team, other areas of TMR and officers from the SARA as well as, technical specialists, consultants (solicitors, barristers, expert witnesses etc.) and senior management.

To thrive in this role, you will need to demonstrate the following:
• Highly developed town planning and technical knowledge, experience and skills relating to TMR's interests in development assessment and planning appeals.
• Ability to think strategically and critically to identify solutions, and experience pragmatically negotiating outcomes and resolving conflicts in complex scenarios and environments.
• Ability to achieve desired outcomes working collaboratively with stakeholders from a broad spectrum of expertise in your team, across TMR and external to TMR.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience interpreting and communicating complex technical material to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to consistently achieve quality results through professionalism, persistence and time/resource/people management, and experience supporting other team members to achieve the same.

Additional Benefits this role offers:
• Work and Life balance, including 'flex time' and flexible work arrangements and a working from home option.
• Beautiful City location close to active and public transport, with just over a 10 minute walk from Central Station.
• Work with a supportive team, with a high level of training and development invested in each staff member
• Generous leave and superannuation

Joining the Development Compliance and Support team will give you a down-to earth working environment with a highly skilled and collaborative team, along with competitive remuneration, training and benefits. There will be a wide range of opportunities for you to grow and develop your skills and progress your career. So, if you love working in a dynamic and ambitious environment, our team is for you.

Please tell us about any additional support or adjustments, such as interpreting services, physical requirements, or assistive technologies, that will better enable you to shine.

Applications will remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

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  662495 25 Role Description (Word, 575KB)
  Role Description