Urban Planner

Job Type: Full-time, Fixed Term

Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Job Category: Other

About Us

At Development Victoria, we’re passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government’s development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

Job Description

Your New Role

The Urban Planner is an experienced individual who will join us on an exciting 12-month parental leave cover position, to ensure the success of Development Victoria’s urban renewal initiatives. The small team that this role is apart of is vibrant and collaborative, helping shape impactful projects across Victoria.

We value flexibility at Development Victoria and encourage a hybrid working environment, with a mix of working at our head office in Melbourne CBD and working from home.

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Core Accountabilities

Work collaboratively in a small, strong team to ensure priorities are met in a timely manner. Conduct thorough planning assessments during due diligence processes for potential projects. Ensure compliance with statutory planning requirements by conducting detailed planning assessments for project proposals. Prepare planning briefs for internal and external stakeholders, fostering effective communication and collaboration. Offer guidance on planning consultant selection, prepare consultant briefs, and oversee consultant services as needed. Take the lead in managing planning outputs from consultants ensuring adherence to applicable planning controls. Participate in discussions and forums to promote best planning practices, collaborating with various stakeholders including Councils, State Government, agencies, consultants, and private industry.

About You

Desired Skills and Experience

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Urban Planning. Detailed knowledge and/or experience of working with the Victorian Planning Provisions in providing both statutory and strategic planning advice, evaluation and assessment of planning schemes, master plans, planning documents and other matters pertaining to large-scale mixed use developments, affordable housing projects and best practice environmental sustainability would be advantageous. Experience working in both the public and private sector providing expert advice, evaluation and assessments on planning and urban design issues highly regarded. Experience working in a complex multidisciplinary team to deliver large urban scale development projects. Experience preparing briefs, letters, emails and reports using clear, concise and grammatically correct language Strong applied research and analytical skills

Employee Benefits

We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.    Professional development opportunities available including;     Study support    Mentoring programs    Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.    Novated leasing    Purchase leave    Paid parental leave    Technology salary sacrifice    Employee referral bonuses     Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave    Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance    Modern onsite facilities   
What next?

Please apply via our careers page linked to this advertisement, applications will not be accepted via email.     Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.    At Development Victoria, we work flexibly and value diversity, and we invite you to talk to us about any preferences or adjustments you may value or require to either our recruitment process or the role itself. If you identify as a person with disability, please let us know how we can provide additional support to your application.

Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 11:59pm Tuesday 8th September 2026. Applications received after this date may not be considered.

If you require further information about this role, please contact Recruitment Enquiries recruitment.enquiries@development.vic.gov.au

We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.