Toowoomba Regional Council
Senior Urban Designer
PROMOTE BEST PRACTICE URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING AGENDAS About You Your professional qualifications and experience in urban design and regional planning will enable you to project manage urban design and placemaking projects/programs across the region. You’ll use research, field studies, evaluation, analysis and stakeholder consultation to inform your recommendations on major projects and development approvals. The Team The Place Branch is a team of passionate people who design, plan, and advocate for the creation and maintenance of Toowoomba Region’s vibrant, inclusive, liveable places. Our…
PROMOTE BEST PRACTICE URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING AGENDAS
About You
Your professional qualifications and experience in urban design and regional planning will enable you to project manage urban design and placemaking projects/programs across the region. You’ll use research, field studies, evaluation, analysis and stakeholder consultation to inform your recommendations on major projects and development approvals.
The Team
The Place Branch is a team of passionate people who design, plan, and advocate for the creation and maintenance of Toowoomba Region’s vibrant, inclusive, liveable places. Our core business is Planning, Landscape, Architecture, Certification and Environment – all fundamental to excellent design outcomes.
Join a team that is focused on the development and protection of places that hold the people, culture, meaning and memories of our community. Assist in capitalising on the Toowoomba Region’s physical, cultural, and social identities to inspire and harness social capital to influence positive outcomes for major projects and development proposals.
The Place Branch: Making Spaces into Memorable Places.
About the position
The Senior Urban Designer will formulate, review and maintain strategies, policies and documentation that moves the Toowoomba community toward our vision of being a vibrant, inclusive and liveable region.
- This is a fixed term full-time position based in the Toowoomba CBD until 30/06/2028.
- The annual salary range for this position is $106,114.31 – $112,546.44 gross per annum, plus 17.5% annual leave loading and up to 12.65% superannuation.
- Enjoy work/life balance with a 72.5 hour fortnight and access to banked leave.
- Professional development and learning opportunities.
- Salary sacrificing opportunities to boost your superannuation.
- Salary packaging services available.
- Corporate discounts on selected private health insurance.
- Active social club – TRC Employee’s Association.
- Access to the Fitness Passport Program – providing access to a wide range of local health, fitness, and leisure facilities with one affordable membership.
- Employee Assistance Program – free 24 hour nationwide confidential personal or work-related counselling services for employees and their families.
- A range of progressive health and wellbeing services.
- Work in a safety-conscious organisation – home safe every day!
How to be successful in this position
- Hold the mandatory qualifications, membership and experience, as outlined under the ‘Success Criteria’ in the Position Description.
- Demonstrate organisational skills, including project planning and time management.
- Project management experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication and numeracy skills, and high level interpersonal skills.
- Ability to communicate urban design matters in a graphic form, both freehand drawings and computer-based tools.
- Comprehensive knowledge of legislation, standards, regulations, guidelines, Council policies and procedures, and statutory requirements relating to planning and development.
- Commitment to teamwork.
How to apply
For full details of this position, please ensure you download the Position Description, which provides the position success criteria.
To apply, submit the following:
- Use headings to identify which criterion you are addressing.
- Provide specific examples that demonstrate your skills, experience, and achievements related to that criterion.(Tip: tell us what you did, how you did it, and what the outcome was).
Important: Applications that do not address the success criterion may not be shortlisted.
The preferred candidate will be required to undertake a Criminal History Check and a pre-employment medical assessment to assess their ability to perform the genuine occupational requirements of the position.
Please note to have your application considered, ensure that you have followed the instructions outlined above.
Visit our website www.tr.qld.gov.au/jobs for information on how to apply for jobs at Toowoomba Regional Council. Applicants are encouraged to apply online.
For further information
Please contact Alison Banks on (07) 4688 6938 within business hours.
Closing date
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 11.45pm.
About Council
The Toowoomba Region is about rich traditions and bold ambitions. Our long and proud agricultural history has evolved Toowoomba into Australia’s second largest inland city supporting diverse townships in the Council area and acting as a service centre for South West Qld and North West NSW. The region is boldly forging new opportunities around the Surat Basin resource sector, education, health, transport, and massive infrastructure investments. Growth hasn’t come at the expense of liveability though, with Toowoomba twice voted in the top 5 most family friendly cities in Australia.
Toowoomba Regional Council services a regional population of 178,500 and employs a team of approximately 1,600 staff, dedicated and passionate about delivering excellent customer service to the community, residents, and visitors throughout the region. We recognise that our success depends upon attracting and retaining skilled and talented staff and offer a wide variety of interesting challenges and opportunities to develop your career.
