Principal Planner - Biodiversity (Caboolture)

**Job Number**: 501268

**The Details**:

- Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
- From $129,747pa + 12% super (level 8)
- with a 4.5% increase coming 1 July
- 72.5 hour fortnight including RDO
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Caboolture with local parking and close to train station

Join City of Moreton Bay as a Principal Planner
- Biodiversity and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

Our challenge is to protect and enhance our lifestyle while sensitively planning for anticipated growth. Through the **Corporate Plan 2022-2027**, our Council has set an aspirational vision for how we want our region to look and feel 20 years from now
- **Our Moreton Bay. Amazing Places. Natural Spaces.**

This vision is underpinned by goals to support biodiversity because of its importance to our communities and for ensuring a healthy environment and sustainable lifestyle. Further, Council has adopted its **Environment and Sustainability Strategy 2042**, which provides a roadmap to guide the actions of Council and our communities to deliver our vision and the **Our Healthy Environments** goal and outcomes.

The **Environment and Sustainability Policy and Planning Department** sits within the Planning Directorate and takes a lead role in developing strategic environmental and sustainability policies, projects and plans to deliver healthy environments and sustainable, resilient outcomes. The Department focuses on meeting legislative requirements, community aspirations and Council priorities across three branches**:Sustainability Planning, Natural Hazards Planning and Biodiversity Planning**.

As a Principal Planner
- Biodiversity, you will:

- Contribute to setting strategic direction in biodiversity and environmental planning for City of Moreton Bay.
- Take a lead role in developing and delivering complex and strategic biodiversity policy, planning and program outcomes including the management of specialist project teams and external consultants where required.
- Provide expert advice on legislative, policy and Corporate requirements to support informed decision-making across internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively as part of the Biodiversity Planning team to deliver aligned biodiversity planning program outcomes, including guiding and supporting other team members where required.
- Build and maintain strong relationships across diverse internal and external stakeholders to achieve strategic objectives and foster collaborative approaches.
- Act as a departmental delegate and advocate for biodiversity outcomes across a range of projects and activities, influencing decisions and ensuring alignment with branch positions, Council’s strategic direction and compliance with legal obligations.

**What we’re looking for**
- A motivated, collaborative and adaptable professional with a strategic mindset, who thrives in fast-paced environments and is committed to delivering on our goal for healthy natural and built environments.
- Substantial experience in shaping and delivering biodiversity outcomes with a strong emphasis on long-term strategic policy, planning, and program design.
- Degree in environmental planning, biodiversity or related discipline
- Proven ability to deliver complex outcomes in time-critical environments with competing stakeholder interests, including the ability to navigate government and political contexts.
- Strong knowledge of environmental conservation and land-use planning principles and frameworks.
- Experience working within a government and political context.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to simplify complex concepts, negotiate sustainable outcomes, and lead high-level consultation processes.

Position Descripion_Principal Planner
- Biodiversity.pdf

**Why City of Moreton Bay?**

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a current kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what _can be_
- for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

- **See it.** To build a city of the future, first, you have to _see it_. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- **Shape it.** You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters
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