Manager Planning - Career Growth Potential

Are you ready to make a real difference and deliver impactful results for our community?

Clutha District Council is seeking a Manager Planning to join the team.

About Us:

At Clutha District Council, we are committed to empowering our community to thrive while preserving our spaces for future generations. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and confident in their roles.

About the Clutha District:

The Clutha District, spanning over 6,700 square kilometers in the lower South Island, offers breathtaking scenery from coast to mountains. Enjoy a relaxed lifestyle, affordable housing, and a friendly community, fostering an ideal work-life balance. Conveniently located near Central Otago and Dunedin, with its international airport and university, and bordered by the stunning Catlins, renowned for its waterfalls, wildlife, rainforest, and surf-worthy beaches.

Role Overview:

As the Manager Planning, you'll be responsible for the Resource Management Planning functions of the Council, including plan changes, District Plan reviews and Resource Management Act monitoring. Your mission? To ensure top-notch, timely advice, service and outcomes are delivered to stakeholders ranging from the Chief Executive to the public.

You'll also be leading the charge in managing and delivering our Consent Planning function, through the management of planning staff and contracted planners, undertaking resource consent applications including for complex and significant proposals and working across the full range of consenting functions.

Additionally, you will be responsible for Noise Control enforcement delivered via contract, and for the monitoring of issued resource consents.

Key Requirements:

• A recognised tertiary qualification in a resource management related discipline
• Leadership ability to manage and develop a team of professionals
• Significant knowledge and demonstrated practical application (5+ years) of the RMA and allied legislation and those provisions relevant to resource consent processes, subdivisions, and implementing District Plans
• Demonstrated ability to deliver customer satisfaction and solutions focus
• Ability to interpret, analyse, and present information, with language and terminology adjusted to the characteristics and needs of the audience.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact in your community
• Supportive and inclusive work environment
• Great work-life balance
• Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.

If this role sounds like what you're looking for, we'd love to hear from you!

We will be assessing applications as they are received, so apply now!

To apply for this job go to: https://cluthadc.recruitmenthub.co.nz/Current-Vacancies & enter ref code: 6589586.

Applications close 20 May 2024