Senior Urban Designer Job in Perth Recruiting by Hume City Council

Permanent Band 6 role: $95k - $102k + Super depending on experience
Design excellence across Council and the community
Exciting role in our Urban Design team
Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.
Provide specialist urban design and built form input into the preparation, implementation, assessment and review of strategic planning and design frameworks, design guidelines, planning policies and strategies to achieve better design outcomes in Hume.
What you’ll be doing:
Assist in the preparation of strategic planning and urban design guidance for activity centres and residential and employment areas.
Participate in and, where directed, lead the review and development of new strategic planning frameworks, urban design and master planning frameworks, design guidelines, local policies and strategies.
Undertake built form testing to develop robust planning policy and design guidance to achieve a higher standard of design outcomes in Hume.
Provide high level urban design and built form input into the preparation of planning scheme amendments.
Provide high level urban design and built form advice to inform Council’s projects where required and the assessment of any referred planning permit proposals to achieve a higher standard of urban design outcomes and compliance with the Hume Planning Scheme and relevant urban design policies and reference documents.
Work with colleagues in City Planning and Places and participate in cross-departmental working/project groups to build urban design knowledge and capacity across the division.
Support the Manager and Coordinator to promote and increase the level of awareness about good urban design and promotion of design excellence with Councillors, staff in the organisation, developers, and the community.
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:
Tertiary qualification in urban design, architecture or related discipline.
Experience in the assessment and guidance of development proposals and urban design and built form scenarios at a range of spatial scales and degrees of complexity. An understanding of urban renewal and greenfield/growth area contexts is highly desirable.
High-level design analysis skills, including the ability to critique development proposals and, where necessary, develop practical and robust alternative approaches to achieve high level urban design and built form outcomes.
Experience in contributing to strategic planning and urban design frameworks, policies and strategies to facilitate high level urban design and built form outcomes.
Experience in contributing to submissions to Planning Panels Victoria and VCAT is highly desirable.
Experience in liaison with colleagues from a range of disciplines or designers/planners from other organisations on projects where high level urban design and built form input is required.
Demonstrated knowledge of urban design principles and substantial experience in technical proficiency to implement these principles in practice at a variety of spatial scales to achieve high level urban design and built form outcomes.
Demonstrated experience in developing robust urban design and built form policy and design guidance to facilitate high level design outcomes.
Why Hume City Council?
A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:
We’re better, every day : We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.
We’re in it together : At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.
We show up : We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.
All for Hume : We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.
We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.
A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.
All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check.#J-18808-Ljbffr