Principal Planner

About this role

We're looking for the best-suited applicant for the role. We focus on your strengths by assessing a combination of your competencies, knowledge-based skills and behaviours.

For this role we are looking for how you: • Manage, influence and develop land use planning strategies, policies, and project plans across the policy cycle to deliver timely high-quality outputs in a fast-paced policy environment. • Manage staff performance and mentor and coach team members to ensure productivity, high quality standards and overall effectiveness • Research, analyse and interpret planning and other relevant legislation, as well as emerging issues and trends to deliver clear, evidence-based advice to senior officers on policy issues, interpretation and development of legislation • Operate with initiative and proactively brief managers and senior officers to ensure early visibility of issues, risks, progress and solutions. • Tailor communication with clear and succinct messaging and prepare high quality briefs, reports, submissions, drafting instructions and correspondence within required timeframes tailored for Ministers, senior executives and industry stakeholders. • Build and maintain effective working relationships with team members, peers and senior officers within the Queensland Public Sector, and with relevant external organisations and represent Planning Policy at internal and external forums.

Applications will remain current for 12 months.