Title: Senior Land Advisor
VIDA Roads
VPS 5 Senior Land Advisor
- Hybrid working environment.
- Fixed term until May 2028, VPS 5 and $116,413 - $140,849 + super & benefits.
- This role will be located at 180 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne and site offices.
About VIDA ROADS
VIDA Roads is delivering a massive investment in the state’s roads. We’re delivering major new road projects across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria while improving the roads people rely on every day.
The West Gate Tunnel Project will give Melbourne a second freeway link between the west and the city – providing a much-needed alternative to the West Gate Bridge and a vital second river crossing.
North East Link will fix the missing link in Melbourne’s freeway network with new 6.5 km tunnels from Watsonia to Bulleen. We’re also overhauling the Eastern Freeway and completing the M80 Ring Road at Greensborough.
Road Programs are also delivering dozens of new roads, bridges, road widening projects and major freeway upgrades.
ome and be a part of our centre of roads excellence.
Join us in building better connections for Victoria by:
- Providing timely expert advice to project delivery teams on land and property issues relating to the delivery of the project. Advice must have regard to current contractual obligations, relevant legislation, government policy, key land stakeholders and physical issues and considerations in a major projects context.
- Maintaining current working relationships with key impacted landowners, relevant Government stakeholders and established Delivery partners, including excellent governance and record keeping capabilities, whilst maintaining or supervising an appropriate database and associated GIS layer.
- Identifying and obtaining project survey needs and coordinate with project teams and external survey contractors to obtain necessary cadastral and feature surveys to support additional acquisitions as well as review plans required to support completion activities for the project.
- Reviewing and coordinating the drafting and publication of various maps, figures, and plans related to land access, acquisition, leases, licenses, and schedules taking project timing, contract requirements, and statutory issues into consideration.
- Preparing and reviewing internal and external correspondence relating to land and property issues including stakeholder engagement, statutory notices, and briefings for senior management, Department Secretaries, and relevant Ministers.
Reporting to the Senior Land Specialist, the Senior Land Advisor will assist the Land team with a wide range of land acquisition, assembly, and completions activities and dealings to support the delivery of the North East Link Program. The Senior Land Advisor will play a key role by providing advice on matters relating to land and property within an Alliance delivery model, including access, acquisition, transfer, and disposal for the project.
About You
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- Demonstrated experience in dealing with land and property issues across public, private, and Crown land including the purchase, transfer, disposal, leasing, licensing, compulsory acquisition, and temporary occupation of such land.
- Demonstrated experience in land and/or property related discipline such as surveying, valuation, conveyancing, or land/asset management, with a familiarity of land titles, title and survey plans
- Ability to generate and maintain accurate land related records and databases.
- A relevant tertiary qualification and experience in engineering, property, surveying, valuation, geomatics, project management or a related discipline would be advantageous.
This is a fixed term opportunity until May 2028.
It will be a requirement to travel and spend time at one or all our site offices.
For more details about this opportunity, please take a look at the Position Description here.
What can we offer you?
We are committed to creating a workplace that inspires and engages you – we want you to be a powerful contributor to this wonderfully diverse and dynamic organisation. Our offering continues to grow but here
is what we already have in store for you:
- VIDA Roads welcomes flexible working arrangements.
- Access to annual health checks, including skins checks and flu shots.
- Access low-cost gym memberships for yourself and family at over 200 facilities via Fitness Passport.
- Access to Thrive Gateway, our employee benefits platform is your once stop shop for wellbeing as well as savings and discounts at hundreds of retailers.
- We're committed to supporting our team members and their families in improving mental health and wellbeing. Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides confidential counselling and advice for our team members and their families for work and personal issues.
- Annual salary increases and incremental performance-based payments over the course of your employment.
- Leave loading of 17.5% payment on top of your base salary when you take annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave.
VIDA Road’s commitment to Gender Equality
- As part of VIDA Road’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are making gender equality a key priority at VIDA Roads.
- We are actively looking to attract and promote women into non- traditional roles and putting support structures in place to help them succeed,
- As part of part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, VIDA Roads has launched a Gender Equality Action Plan – a blueprint for improvement and our progress will be tracked annually. Watch Dian, one of our talented Senior Project Managers share her thoughts on why diversity is important and what involvement she has had in the VIDA Roads Gender Equality Action plan!
Need more information?
Sharon Hatton – Business Partner, Talent Acquisition – Sharon.hatton@vida.vic.gov.au
How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply now via the ‘Apply’ button and follow the prompts. Applications to include a CV and preferably Cover Letter and will not be accepted via email. There is no need to provide any type of response to Key Selection Criteria separately, but we do encourage you to outline relevant experience and motivation for applying in your cover letter.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which include a national
police check and misconduct screening.
To be part of something meaningful and leave a positive legacy connecting Victorian communities,
apply for a role with us today.
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