Principal Planner Land Use Policy

**Opportunity to influence land use and determine transport network and investment requirements to support Auckland's future urban form**:

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Full spectrum of planning from high level strategic planning to tactical planning and implementation planning**:

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Permanent opportunity with a collaborative future focused team**
**Do you want to play a key role in Auckland's future urban growth and development? Do you want to lead Auckland Transport's involvement in transport land use integration planning and implementation?**

Are you an experienced Principal Planner wanting to be at the forefront of identifying opportunities and key moves in how we respond to and provide for Auckland's future form, working closely with specialists, Auckland Council, Panuku, Kāinga Ora, Central Government, developers and other key stakeholders to achieve this? If you have answered yes, then we have the role for you

It is an exciting area of planning, full of opportunities for people keen on tackling some key challenges and influencing and shaping the key frameworks that set the outcomes we are all working towards achieving for the benefit of future Aucklanders.
**Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity**

We are looking for an experienced Principal Planner to join our Land Use Policy and Planning team as a specialist lead, leading our involvement in complex and exciting transport and land use integration workstreams and providing support and guidance to our young planners.

The team is currently working with partners such as Kāinga Ora and Crown agencies to support brownfield redevelopment. We are actively working with developers to ensure Auckland Transport's aspirations for land use and transport integration can be delivered in greenfield development areas. In addition, the team is supporting Auckland Council to respond to the National Policy Station on Urban Development and what that means for Auckland. These projects are just a snapshot of some of the work the team is involved in.
**Ko koe tēnei | About you**

We are looking for an experienced principal planner who is dynamic, has great communication and collaboration skills, shows initiative and will take responsibility for identifying opportunities and delivering results.
- Working experience in strategy, policy and planning in land use, transport, and/or resource management planning, supported by a qualification in Planning or related discipline
- An excellent understanding and working knowledge of New Zealand's planning system, transport land use integration principles, urban planning policies, growth and development planning and key implementation considerations and mechanisms
- Experience with key legislation, such as the Resource Management Act, National Direction
- Expert experience in engaging, partnering and communicating with a range of stakeholders and a strong focus on customer service and collaboration
**Ko wai mātou | About us**

At AT we embrace inclusion and fully support building a diverse workplace, to support this our Hybrid Working Initiative empowers our people to work flexibly in ways that work for them, our customers, and AT. All hybrid options are designed collaboratively with individual and teams needs in mind, we aim to collaborate intentionally and create protected mind-space to be creative, we invite you to talk to us early in the process about how hybrid working might work for you. Alongside this we also offer:

- A supportive, high performing team environment
- Professional development and training
- Professional membership
- Health and Wellbeing benefits

Our values are woven into all we do at AT. We recently refreshed our values as a team to ensure they were meaningful and truly reflect how we behave with one another. Welcoming talent with aligned values is important to us, our values that guide every encounter are: Manaakitanga - We care full stop, Tiakitanga - Safe with us, Whanaungatanga - We connect and Auahatanga - Better, bolder, together.

If you are passionate about Auckland's future, the opportunities that integrated planning and transport land use integration can achieve, and want to be involved across all aspects of planning then this is the role for you. At Auckland Transport, we are committed to our staff and making this a great place to work.
- Due to the current Covid 19 alert level status in Auckland it may be required for interviews to be held via MS Teams. Don't worry, were a friendly bunch on video as well as in person_