Title:  Team Leader Statutory Planning

About Us

We create thriving places and connected communities by bringing together transport, planning, land use, precinct and policy functions in one department to deliver the best outcomes for Victorians.

Together with our portfolio agencies, we are responsible for planning, building, operating and maintaining Victoria’s transport, planning and land services for use by all. We foster a safe, inclusive and constructive workplace.

Transport Services delivers safe, reliable and accessible transport infrastructure and services to keep Victoria moving, connecting people to what matters most in their lives.

About the Role

This is a full-time, ongoing position. The Team Leader Statutory Planning will provide strong leadership, guidance, and support to effectively manage and develop the team, ensuring successful business outcomes. The role involves overseeing work activities, monitoring team performance, and fostering a motivated and high-performing work environment. The Statutory Planning function includes reviewing and responding to planning applications referred to the department under the Planning & Environment Act 1987, ensuring responses are timely, coordinated, and efficient.

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Key Selection Criteria

To be successful in this role, you must demonstrate strong people management skills by clearly communicating role expectations, providing timely and constructive feedback, and understanding individual needs to optimise engagement. You are expected to actively develop team capability through coaching, mentoring, and learning opportunities, while recognising and fostering potential in others to build a high-performing workforce. You must also show a strong customer focus by understanding client requirements and context, tailoring services to meet needs, and effectively managing risks to service delivery. Your interpersonal skills should allow you to see situations from others’ perspectives, understand stakeholder motivations, and adapt communication to suit different audiences.

You are also required to excel in stakeholder management by identifying common issues across clients and building mutually beneficial partnerships, while responding to underlying needs and using organisational context to achieve outcomes. You must demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving by considering the wider business context, evaluating options, and integrating solutions to prevent recurring issues. You should be able to deliver tangible business outcomes by assessing problems from multiple perspectives and implementing effective solutions. Overall, the role requires the ability to innovate, collaborate, and lead teams to achieve high-quality results in a dynamic environment.

Position accountabilities

• Effectively lead, manage, motivate and develop a team to achieve successful business outcomes. Ensure the team respond to planning application referrals within the statutory timeframes.
• Lead the planning and regulation of new uses and development of land to avoid detriment to, and where possible, enhance the service, safety and amenity of the transport network in the short and long terms in accordance with relevant statutory requirements
• Apply well developed specialist skills to represent the Department at senior meetings and hearings including VCAT and Planning Panels Victoria.
• Negotiate with and influence key stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes, particularly in relation to developments which impact the transport network and liaise regularly with councils and other relevant internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

Mandatory

 Tertiary qualification relevant to Statutory Planning and/or Traffic Engineering, and/or extensive relevant experience.

Desirable

 Experience relevant to the accountabilities and capabilities of the role Experience in managing planning applications in growth areas.

Culture Value

We welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds representing the community that we serve, including veterans, parents, carers, First Peoples, people with disability, multicultural, multifaith and LGBTIQA+ individuals.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture. Through shared actions and behaviours aligned with our strategy and direction, we empower our people to thrive and meaningfully contribute to the department’s goals.

What we offer

Working at the Department of Transport and Planning provides people with the opportunity to contribute to creating thriving places and connected communities for all Victorians.

For further details please refer to Careers at the Department of Transport and Planning.

Pre-employment checks and employment conditions

All new appointments to the department will be subject to a National Criminal Records Check, Misconduct Screening, and a Qualification Check where there is a requirement for a mandatory qualification. Information provided to the Department of Transport and Planning will be treated in the strictest confidence consistent with the requirements of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.

Applicants must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa necessary for the nature of the position.

Recipients of Victorian Public Service (VPS) voluntary departure packages should note that re-employment restrictions apply.

Non-VPS applicants will be subject to a probation period of six months.

How to apply

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Applications close at 11.59pm on Thursday, 4th of December 2025.

For further information, please contact Anitha Viswanathan Manager, Transport Planning via email Anitha.Viswanathan@transport.vic.gov.au

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