Development Manager
1. Join an organisation that cares about their employees and promotes a work/life balance
2. Permanent full time position, 35 hours per week
3. Shape the future of Bayside Council
Our Team
At Bayside Council, we are committed to a positive, flexible and supportive workplace culture, where our people and customers feel respected and valued. We are proud to serve our community through operating with transparency, integrity and in the best interests of the Bayside community to deliver exceptional service.
The City Performance directorate underpins the delivery of service excellence by providing expertise in financial services, procurement, governance, customer experience, property services and business technology.
About the Role
The main responsibilities of the role are to lead the preparation, implementation and management of tasks associated with redeveloping Council’s property assets. This is vital to the Council’s aspirations for future capital works, the improvement of key centres and ongoing service delivery.
The Property Business Unit is responsible for fostering community, economic and environmental opportunities for Bayside Council via its assets.
About you
The successful candidate will be required to:
4. Identify and advise on opportunities to value add transform a diverse Council portfolio of existing property assets via redevelopment and repositioning of assets
5. Exercising sound business judgement, identify, investigate and analyse development opportunities, including innovative solutions
6. Prepare property development business cases and funding proposals, including all aspects of feasibility investigations (including acquisitions, constructions & consultancies)
7. Coordinate the preparation, implementation and management of tasks associated with redeveloping and value add opportunities for Council’s property portfolio
8. Identify and secure relationships to support the redevelopment of a diverse portfolio of Council’s assets including joint venture partners
9. Contribute to strategy, management, decision making and capacity building
10. Sustain project tracking, budgets and evaluation practices; and
11. Maintain compliance with relevant legislation and contractual obligations
12. Provision of quality and timely advice, information and actions delivered between key stakeholders and Council.
13. Promote a positive and collaborative culture and values within the organisation through open, fair and transparent decision making and ethical, professional behaviour.
14. Work in collaboration with and lead a small team of property professional’s, and other key stakeholders to achieve business unit goals, work requests, demands and Council priorities.
We are looking for a someone who demonstrates:
15. Degree qualifications in a relevant field.
16. Strong commercial acumen with extensive private sector experience in the development industry.
17. Strong negotiation skills
18. Current Class C Driver’s Licence.
19. Identifying and resolving service delivery issues to maintain a positive customer experience and quality level of service given competing user priorities.
Our benefits and culture
As an organisation, we pride ourselves in offering a flexible working environment centred on delivering great outcomes for our customers, whether internal or external. The Information Technology team have a strong culture of collaboration and delivering exciting new initiatives.
On top of the competitive salary Grade 18 between $145,904 to $163,412, our people enjoy:
20. 9 – Day work in a fortnights
21. 3 extra days off during Christmas each year
22. 15 days sick leave each year.
23. 2 days health and wellbeing days each year
24. Generous parental leave entitlements for both parents
Apply now
Your application should include an up-to-date resume (max 3 pages) and a covering letter (max 2 pages), outlining how your skills and experience meet the focus competencies, key accountabilities and challenges of the role outlined in the .
Closing Date: 13th October 2023
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse and socially inclusive work environment.