Resilience Specialist: Infrastructure and Urban Form

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Tauranga is on a journey to become a talented and innovative city full of opportunity, a city with heart and soul; and a city of great spaces, places and environments.

We are working hard to meet the challenges of current growth and the future needs of our community as the city develops. One of these challenges relates to our understanding of the resilience to natural hazard risks of our current and future infrastructure and current and future land forms.

We have created the new role of Resilience Specialist to, initially, lead a multi-year evidence-based project to increase this understanding, and then to contribute to ongoing decision-making on the mitigation of resilience risks to infrastructure and current and potential urban form.

In this key role you will work closely with infrastructure experts, land-use planning experts, and consultants to develop a strong understanding of current and future natural hazard risks and the vulnerability of current and proposed infrastructure and land forms to those risks. This will include commissioning and managing consultants' technical inputs, developing and implementing prioritisation tools to aid decision-making, and contributing to decision-making processes with short-, medium- and long-term implications.

You will work closely with the leadership team in the Growth & Infrastructure Group, and your influence will be felt across the organisation and the city.

This is a fantastic career development opportunity in an aspect of local government, infrastructure management, and land-use decision-making that will be agenda-setting in the coming decades.

To be considered for this role you will have:

• A strong record of managing evidence-based projects
• Experiencing of managing consultant input
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate information and make recommendations
• A record of producing quality, professional outputs in a timely manner
• An ability to effectively participate in, and manage, multi-disciplinary teams.

You will be someone who thrives on the opportunity to lead and influence in a diverse and dynamic setting, building relationships and working with key stakeholders across the organisation for the long-term benefit of the city.

The ideal candidate will also have an understanding of local government and its political and regulatory environments, and an understanding of natural hazard risks and/or infrastructure management and/or land-use planning.

To learn more, please read the position description attached or contact Jeremy Boase, Strategic Business Manager: Growth & Infrastructure on 07 577 7213.

Applications close 8th August 2018.

While our preference is for a permanent in-house role, long-term secondments from consultancy firms may be considered as part of this recruitment process.