Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning

Executive Director, Policy and Statutory Planning

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Applications close: midnight Wednesday 26th February 2025

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As the Executive Director Policy and Statutory Planning, you will be empowered to take a fresh proactive look at how the Planning Group improves and delivers the frameworks that drive planning outcomes across the State.

Overview

Your chance to be the difference.

Thank you for your interest in joining Queensland’s largest and most diverse employer – the Queensland Government.

As a public sector, we are passionate about making Queensland better through what we do. We are a team of over 250,000 providing essential services across 4000+ locations in Australia’s most geographically diverse state.

About the Department

Our service areas

We're working to shape Queensland’s future by driving economic growth and enabling well-planned, inclusive and resilient local communities.

As Queensland’s population and economy grows, it’s more important than ever for our department to be future focused and bold in its leadership.

Our department thinks ahead and acts now to secure responsible economic development and liveable communities.

Our purpose is to:

scan and make sense of the economic road ahead,
act with urgency,
secure both our economic development and our liveability,
develop our economy sustainably, ethically and inclusively,
direct development in the public interest.

Our approach and values

We have a clear purpose.
We are the State Shapers. This is the place to be if you want to make a big difference to Queensland. We’re thinking ahead and acting now to set Queensland up for a better tomorrow.
We’re the department that future-senses. Queenslanders rely on us to scan and make sense of the economic road ahead. We’re the economic development department, relied upon to work with industry, the community, and researchers to bring about and sequence the big economic shifts. We live in a community, not just an economy. Securing our liveability while we develop our economy is challenging, but essential.
Partnerships with our customers and stakeholders are important to us, as we work to deliver policies, programs and services that support industry while reflecting the needs of the broader community
Our workplace culture

Our workplace culture is important to us. We are a high-performing department of approximately 1000 employees, with offices located throughout Queensland. We have enthusiastic people making a difference in cities and small towns, by the coast and in the outback. We support each other to go further together. We live by our guiding principles and channel our passion for our work into real benefits for Queensland.
We also value responsiveness. To work with us you need to be agile and open to change. Our role profiles are indicative and may flex in response to changing departmental goals, priorities and activities, not to mention to better align to your own strengths as you learn and grow with us.
Our guiding principles

We value candidates who connect to our purpose and want to lean-in to our Guiding Principles, bringing their best to their role.
Our guiding principles are how we achieve our purpose and priorities:
Hearts in, hands on: We are passionate and get to work
Find a way to done: We take accountability and finish the job
Have a crack. Learn. Repeat: We take appropriate risks, have a bias for action, learn from the outcomes and continuously improve
Go further together, steer the way: We work collaboratively, but use our influence to get outcomes
Be surprisingly helpful: We deliver unexpected quality of service to our colleagues and our stakeholders

Our executive leadership team

Executive Director, Policy and Statutory Planning, SES

The Policy and Statutory Planning Division is responsible for providing streamlined and simplified legislative frameworks and overarching policies to support the improvement and operation of Queensland’s planning system.

The division focuses on driving creative and innovative approaches for simplifying the planning system; improving the regulatory and legislative environment; maintaining and improving the State Planning Policy and engaging and supporting stakeholders and other users of the system.

Your Responsibilities

As Executive Director, Policy and Statutory Planning, you will:

As a member of Planning Group’s Senior Leadership Team, contribute to the effective and collaborative leadership and direction of Planning Group in meeting its strategic objectives and legislative requirements.
Have extensive knowledge of the Queensland planning framework, planning and policy issues and the ability and experience to apply that knowledge to develop practical outcomes.
Provide direction and technical leadership on highly complex, confidential and significant legislative and land use policy matters, ensuring that recommended solutions and decisions are evidence and research based to inform the most appropriate course of action.
Ensure that the reputation and interests of the State are protected in a high public exposure environment through proactive risk management.
Have excellent consultation, engagement and conflict resolution skills.
Establish and maintain strategic partnerships, relationships, and networks with key stakeholders within other departments, local governments, the Commonwealth, the planning and development industry, community groups and relevant peak bodies.

Your strengths

We’re looking for the best-suited applicant for the role. We focus on your strengths by assessing a combination of your competencies, knowledge-based skills and behaviours. For this role we are looking for strengths in:

Leads strategically
Demonstrates sound governance
Drives accountability
Proactive and responsive policy analysis and development
Research and problem solving
Collaboration, engagement and impact
Pursues continuous growth
Prioritising to optimise productivity

Your team

We want you to be a part of a team that is making a difference. PSP leads the strategic policy for the Queensland planning framework and supports and integrates other departments’ policy implementation through land use planning. The team focuses collaboration and relationships to improve useability and transparency of the system. The team is also responsible for developing and managing the process rules and assessment framework to guide Queensland’s land use planning and development assessment system.

Position Description

To learn of the requirements and attributes of our ideal candidate for this position, we invite you
to please download the position description below.

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How to Apply

Requirements

The Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning are committed to inclusive and diverse practices, including recruitment and selection which ensures people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, women, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have equal opportunity to apply and participate.

Candidates who represent diverse backgrounds are encouraged to submit an application. Please see our Equity and Diversity Plan for more information.

To be considered, please provide the following information in your online application, for the assessment of your suitability:

A short (no more than two pages) statement focusing on how you align with the core accountabilities outlined in the role statement below.
Your current CV highlighting your relevant experience, qualifications, and achievements.

If you need assistance with your application please reach out to us.

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