Senior Strategic Planner

Our employees are critical to our mission, regardless of the role they carry out. Our Values guide how we do our job, and keep us passionate about creating great places and supporting our people.

Te Wero – The Challenge

Are you passionate about engaging with communities to identify and provide for direction for long-term growth and place based community outcomes? Have you got experience in developing place-based plans such as district wide spatial plans or community level masterplans? Can you bring a best-practice approach to the process and methodologies for preparing and embedding these plans in Council processes and plans, such as annual and long-term plans, for implementation?

We have an awesome opportunity without Growth Planning and Placemaking team for someone who has these skills and who can bring their experience to lead the development of necessary place-based plans. This includes identifying place based long term community outcomes, growth requirements, future planning scenarios and infrastructure requirements to inform our place-based plans and to inform our development contributions policy.

You are willing to be adaptive to incoming Resource Management Act reform to meet the needs of the organisation.

In this role you will work with a small team of future focused pro-active colleagues.

I ā koe - About You

Looking for a candidate who is:

• Experienced in best-practice process and methodology for the development, implementation, and maintenance of district wide and community level spatial plans, masterplans, placemaking plans and other plans as required.
• Experienced in collaborating across an organisation and with external stakeholders, facilitating internal and external meetings, workshops, or working groups as required to build trusted relationships with mana whenua and key stakeholders.
• Experienced in the development of planning scenarios and infrastructure servicing optioneering at district and community level, supporting assessment of demand, supply, constraints and enabling factors for medium- and long term business and housing land in the district (urban and rural) to inform development of a schedule of rates for development contributions that set out the provision of future infrastructure (including upgrading or retiring) to meet growth across the Far North District.
• Comfortable assimilating a wide range of complex data and presenting this simply and clearly to a variety of audiences, using suitable presentation methods, these could include ESRI GIS, story board, and Microsoft office software.

Tā mātou āroha – What We Offer

Far North District Council are proud of our diverse workforce and are committed to maintaining an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We are a progressive and growing council filled with like-minded people who love what they do and are committed to providing superior services to residents and their community.

You will be given all the tools of the trade to hit the ground running.

• Learning & Development plan to ensure your ongoing growth and success within the organisation.
• The salary for this position is Grade 18 within Council's salary structure (Band: $100,745 to $118,523 pro rata per annum) dependent on qualifications and experience, plus Kiwi Saver.
• We operate a “Business First” approach with flexible/hybrid options.
• Free $100,000 life insurance scheme (conditions apply).
• Free Will package, so that if the unexpected happens your family is supported.

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process that supports access needs to ensure every applicant can participate fully and confidently. This is in line with our Accessibility Policy, supports the Te Tai Tokerau Regional Accessibility Strategy, and upholds the values of mana tangata, manaakitanga, mahi tahi, whanaungatanga and āhurutanga. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs when making your application.

Creating Great Places, Supporting our People