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Responsibilities- Provision of key support and advice to the VPA Board, CEO and Senior Executive Team colleagues.- Provision of advice to the Minister for Planning, their office, and other Ministers.- Business development to secure forward pipeline of projects.- Lead and create positive workplace culture.- Lead executive sponsorship for planning practice improvement and reform.- Form strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, decision makers and resolve issues efficiently and effectively. - Lead delivery of the overall work program; inclusive of partnerships, financial, schedule and quality management.- Support and advise the Office of Commonwealth Games Delivery.Achievements- Overseeing program of 12 projects in Regional Cities and high growth peri-urban towns expected to deliver over 7,000 jobs and 21,000 houses.- Initiated planning practice continuous improvement program to drive time and cost reduction and improve quality outcomes.- Developing Regional Victoria strategic pipeline and advocacy for the VPA to increase it’s mandate in Regional Victoria to address housing land and employment shortages.- Identifying place-based legacy opportunities for regional cities from the Commonwealth Games.- Member of the Planning Reform Interdepartmental Committee.

Melbourne, Australia

Achievements- Oversaw gazettal of 5 projects that can deliver 49,750 jobs and 15,730 houses.- Completed 3 place-based visions or plans.- Arden Structure Plan to facilitate an aspiration of 34,000 jobs and 15,000 residents in four years involving two consultation periods and independent amendment assessment.- Secured 6 fee for service government commissions to provide spatial planning solutions to achieve their priories.- Preparation of a forward pipeline of activity centre projects to priories effort in unlocking Melbourne’s 131 activity centres to help achieve the 70/30 balanced growth aspiration.- Established program control groups to embed the project management framework and introduce change control.- Advised project initiation for the Suburban Rail Loop station precincts.- Developed working partnership with Department of Transport, Department of Jobs Precincts and Regions and identified working arrangements for the VPA with emerging priority precincts.

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Achievements- Seconded to develop and advise on the framework for the establishment of the priority precincts portfolio for the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions.- Completed 2 place-based plans.- Delivered knowledge sharing between Melbourne and Sydney through hosting a knowledge exchange between the Greater Sydney Commission and the Planning Portfolio and delivering a lunch and learn session on my reflections and comparisons between planning in Melbourne and Sydney.- Developed charter for Director-cohort and executive meeting structure.

Achievements- Published government endorsed finalised Greater Sydney Region Plan and five district plans.- Used Investment Logic Mapping to create cross-agency support and identification of directions for metropolitan and district plans.- Published Directions for Greater Sydney.- Released for public engagement the draft Greater Sydney Region Plan and five revised draft district plans.

St Kilda

Achievements- Acted for a period as General Manager of Place, Strategy & Development Division.- Delivered the design and delivery of Acland Street Upgrade in partnership with Public Transport Victoria and Yarra Trams.- Established Precinct Management approach to complex place projects and services.- Member of the Palais Theatre leasing project.- Led the St Kilda Triangle co-design workshop process with over 100 community members for the masterplan.- Council endorsement of a St Kilda Triangle Masterplan and advocacy document- Council endorsement of a new affordable housing strategy, In Our Backyard.

Achievements- Published Plan Melbourne that identified long term city-shaping projects, established new planning directions and assigned actions of the short, medium and long term to Government agencies.- Delivered an engagement program that involved over 10,000 people and reached a broad range of people.

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