Southern Rural Water
Planning And Referrals Lead (Remote)
Planning And Referrals Lead | Southern Rural Water |Australia
Full Time Ongoing
Professional Services Band D: $104,556 – $115,271per annum plus 11.5% statutory superannuation.
Location: Negotiable across SRW major offices of Maffra, Mitchamand Werribee
About Southern Rural Water
...Planning And Referrals Lead | Southern Rural Water | Australia
Full Time Ongoing
Professional Services Band D: $104,556 – $115,271 per annum plus 11.5% statutory superannuation.
Location: Negotiable across SRW major offices of Maffra, Mitcham and Werribee
About Southern Rural Water
Southern Rural Water (SRW) is a Victorian water corporation with nearly 170 staff, managing major dams, weirs, water licencing and more from Mallacoota through to the South Australian border. At SRW, we believe that diversity makes us stronger, and we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive and contribute to collective success. Through providing a flexible, always safe workplace and promoting employee development, we empower employees to contribute to our strategy of great value for customers and community through excellence in rural water management.
How We Support You
At Southern Rural Water, we recognise and prioritise the wellbeing and fulfillment of our staff members. Here’s what we offer to ensure a balanced and rewarding work experience:
- Embrace flexibility: We support various working arrangements including WFH, 9-day fortnights, tailor your work schedule to accommodate for school drop off and pick up hours.
- Generous leave provisions: 15 days sick leave and 14 weeks paid parental leave to support you during life’s important moments!
- Health and Wellbeing: Yearly reimbursement of up to $150 per financial year to support you in physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
- Professional development: We support your growth through a range of internal and external training initiatives and offer study assistance programs to empower you to reach your full potential.
- Employee Assistance Program: Receive comprehensive support for yourself and your family through our employee assistance program.
- Salary Sacrifice: Salary Sacrifice options for vehicles, equipment, and superannuation to enhance your financial benefits.
- See what else we can offer you on our Careers Page!
About the Role
Southern Rural Water is currently seeking a motivated Planning and Referrals Lead to join our team. If you are an experienced professional with skills and experience in town planning or statutory planning, this could be the perfect role for you!
As the Planning and Referrals Lead, you will manage SRW’s obligations as a statutory planning referral authority, streamlining systems and processes for planning referrals. Your expertise will guide land management decisions across SRW’s regulated supply systems and drinking water catchments, ensuring effective responses to referrals impacting our Groundwater & Rivers operations.
As SRW’s representative in planning matters, you will promote best-practice engagement with stakeholders, authorities, and the community. Your strong communication skills will be essential in building and maintaining meaningful relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
To thrive in this role, you will be a proactive team player skilled in handling planning referrals and establishing business processes. Your enthusiasm, innovation, and self motivation will be crucial in creating process improvements to support assessment of planning permit referrals.
As the Planning and Referrals Lead, some of your responsibilities will include:
- Coordinate and lead the organisation’s assessment of statutory planning referrals to ensure that SRW meets its obligations under the Planning and Environment Act 1987.
- Represent SRW’s interests in discussions with internal and external stakeholders in planning matters.
- Provide advice to responsible authorities on planning scheme amendments that affect SRW’s interests and operations.
- Develop and implement process improvements and templates to support a more streamlined, coordinated and timely assessment of planning permit referrals.
About you
The successful candidate for this position will be able to demonstrate some of the desired experience and abilities below:
- A tertiary qualification in town planning or related discipline is essential.
- Three years of experience in a planning related role is desirable.
- Comprehensive working knowledge and experience in the Planning and Environment Act 1987, the Victoria Planning Provisions and planning schemes.
- Proven ability to effectively engage with stakeholders, colleagues, and cross-functional teams, both verbally and in writing.
- An ability to exercise professional judgement to draft quality advice, assessments and reports.
How to Apply
Applications should be made online by clicking ‘Apply’ before midnight Sunday 10 November 2024 or by visiting our website: www.srw.com.au
Please take the time to describe how your knowledge, skills and abilities would make you a suitable candidate for this role as part of your cover letter.
A Position Description for this position can be obtained from this link.
Southern Rural Water is committed to diversity and inclusion in employment and is proud to encourage applications from people of different backgrounds, abilities, ages, genders, gender identities and/or sexual orientations.
Southern Rural Water acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters we work with and within, and pay respects to Elders past and present.
