Senior Planner

About the Opportunity

Ethos Urban is seeking a Senior Planner to join our growing team in the Melbourne office.

Our ideal candidate for this role will be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, project management experience, and an interest in working within a consultancy business engaged in complex urban planning, development, or infrastructure projects. You will also be inquisitive, with an innate drive for learning and exploring, an outcomes-oriented attitude, excellent interpersonal skills and the passion and energy to thrive in a high performing organisation.

So, if you’re passionate about planning policy, land development and urban planning, we want to hear from you.

Our Vision for Victoria

Ethos Urban are in an exciting growth phase with a strong pipeline of varied projects both within Victoria and across Australia. We are excited to welcome new talent to our team as we grow to a leading consultancy that is known for bringing the world’s best practice to our clients and their urban challenge. Our team’s focus on collaboration and sharing our collective intelligence ensures our client’s realise their ambitions for better places, communities and cities.

Cultural fit for this role is key to your success and the success of our team, and as important as your technical skillset, so we are looking for someone who is passionate about the skills and mindset they bring to Ethos Urban. It is critical that you possess and bring a growth mindset to the role and truly buy into our Operating Principles which are:

• Be all in.
• Improve always.
• Chip in and help out.
• Look after yourself and each other.
• Challenge ideas, collaborate on solutions, and commit on decisions.

Key responsibilities

As a Senior Planner, you will:

• Work collaboratively across a wide range of projects and services within the organisation’s diversified portfolios, including as part of multidisciplinary project teams.
• Be responsible for leading a range of deliverables including development approvals, planning scheme amendments, preparation of strategies and studies, and provision of strategic advice that matters for our clients.
• Assume leadership responsibilities including preparing fee proposals and tender submissions, assessing and reporting on technical documentation, leading multi-disciplinary project teams, managing sub-consultants, and delivery of projects.
• Develop your skills in project management, delegation, and supervision through managing junior staff members.
• Develop others within the team by sharing your knowledge and collaborative work experiences.
• Build on your existing stakeholder relationships and networks to achieve positive results for clients and work with the team to generate new business.
• Develop a broader skillset through working side by side with economists, urban designers, social planners, project managers and community & stakeholder engagement professionals.

We are looking for an experienced planner who has

• A Tertiary qualification in Planning or related degree/discipline.
• 7+ years of urban planning experience within a professional services firm or state/local government.
• Well-developed organisational and time management skills, with a flexible and positive attitude to working on a range of different projects concurrently.
• An in-depth knowledge of the Victorian planning framework, experience preparing considered strategic frameworks that facilitate robust planning outcomes.
• Well-versed communication skills, and the ability to build rapport with clients and other project team members.
• Excellent writing skills, who can draft efficiently, write accurate and comprehensive reports and prepare external correspondence.
• A professional commitment to striving for excellence.

About Ethos Urban

We believe bringing collective intelligence to complex decisions delivers a better urban experience. Our towns and cities are always changing and we know this creates choices that can make a difference to the quality of our urban living.

We believe we can always improve the urban life experience by creating engaging places that connect us to where we need to go, meet our changing needs and create opportunities for everyone to thrive.

For over 25 years our people have worked in partnership with the public and private sectors to provide them with the momentum to realise their ambitions for better places, communities and cities.

Why work with us?

The business of creating a better urban experience is a complex one. It requires patience, diligence, intelligence and perhaps most importantly, a passion for making a difference to our experience of urban life.

What we do and the way that we do it is unique. We view each project as a complex puzzle that requires different perspectives and alternative angles to solve it. At Ethos Urban, no one individual ever has the answer. It’s only when we bring people with different specialisations from different teams that we can see the full picture and then the way forward. We call it collective intelligence.

We continue to hire great people with a diversity of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups. We encourage applicants from any background to apply to join Ethos Urban!

We back our people: We are proponents of flexible work, we provide generous leave provisions including purchased leave (up to 4 weeks annually in addition to your standard 4), 18 weeks paid parental leave regardless of your parental definition, paid study leave & access to transitional coaching. In addition, we cover your industry memberships, we provide access to an array of great learning and personal development initiatives and incredible career pathways. For more please visit our website.

We have adopted the globally recognised United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as our ESG framework. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) is a clearly defined pathway to improving our world, and how business can align its goals and actions to help us all collectively get there.

How to apply

Interested in joining our team? We’d love to hear from you. Send a cover letter and CV to recruitment@ethosurban.com.