Senior Strategic Landscape Advisor

6 days ago

Queenstown, New Zealand LGJobs Full time

We’re looking for a Senior Strategic Landscape Advisor to join our busy and highly motivated Resource Consents team.

The Queenstown Lakes District is recognised throughout New Zealand and abroad as the home of Outstanding Natural Landscapes. QLDC is the custodian of these landscapes, a critical role on behalf of all New Zealanders and overseas visitors who travel great distances to be amongst them. Would you like to be at the forefront of this custodial role? Be directly involved in influencing the outcomes of balancing the pressures of providing for development with the protection of our Outstanding Natural Landscapes? This is a great opportunity for a senior pragmatic landscape architect looking to either advance their career or take on a more strategic senior role.

Employing over 600 people in one of the most stunning locations in the country, Queenstown Lakes District Council is at the very heart of a dynamic community. Our services are essential to the people in our region and include infrastructure development, community recreational facilities and planning, building and other regulatory services.

We’re proud to be QLDC, and in response to the growth the district has experienced over recent years the QLDC organisation has itself experienced substantial growth. We genuinely believe in developing our people and providing them with all the tools and opportunities needed to succeed.

We offer hybrid working practices, a host of employee benefits (including highly discounted access to our health and fitness facilities), and a genuine commitment to your training and career development.

**What you’ll be doing / He aha te mahi**
- Providing strategic advice on the landscape matters of a resource consent Environment Court appeal (including input into landscape expert witnesses, reviewing expert landscape evidence, or being the Councils landscape expert witness).
- Supporting the Manager Resource Consents and Team Leaders Resource Consents with resolving landscape related matters.
- Disseminating to the resource consent and policy planning teams key determinations on landscape matters from Council and Environment Court decisions.
- Supporting the resource consents team with training and development on landscape related matters.

**What you’ll bring to the role **/ **Ko wai to Pukeka**
- To best succeed in this role, you’ll have:_
- Membership of the NZILA (or obvious working towards achieving membership).
- Proven experience (ideally 10+ years) in a landscape architecture role.
- The ability to break down technical jargon / complex intricate landscape matters to simpler language that non landscape architects can understand.

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