Manager

Join our passionate team in Brisbane as a Manager, Regional Infrastructure! You’ll lead the development and implementation of Regional Infrastructure Plans, coordinating strategic and prioritized infrastructure pipelines to address community needs. Your strengths in infrastructure planning, stakeholder engagement, strategic thinking, and leadership will be key. Responsibilities include managing project risks, participating in high-level forums, translating policy agendas into actionable services, and providing strategic leadership to the team. This flexible full-time role is non-permanent until 30/06/2026, offering a unique opportunity to shape Queensland’s infrastructure future.

Your Opportunity

As Manager, Regional Infrastructure, you will facilitate improved infrastructure planning and coordination through Regional Infrastructure Plans. You will lead the coordination of whole-of-government infrastructure planning for the delivery of the State’s economic priorities. Through stakeholder engagement, you will foster collaboration and partnerships and help implement the regional aspirations for the future by identifying and planning for the enabling infrastructure required to bring those aspirations into reality.

Your Strengths

Skills

We focus on your strengths by assessing a combination of your competencies, knowledge-based skills, and behaviors. For this role, we are looking for strengths in:

• Leading and Delivering Infrastructure Planning Projects: Managing complex infrastructure projects from inception to completion.
• Managing and Engaging Stakeholders: Building and maintaining productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strategic Thinking: Developing and implementing strategic plans that align with regional and state priorities.
• Leadership to Resolve Complex Problems and Deliver Outcomes: Providing clear direction and support to the team to achieve project goals.
• Working Collaboratively: Fostering a collaborative team environment to achieve shared objectives.
• Risk and Governance: Identifying and managing risks to ensure compliance with governance standards.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead Regional Infrastructure Plans: Develop and implement Regional Infrastructure Plans to support regional priorities and aspirations.
• Engage State Agencies: Coordinate strategic and prioritized regional infrastructure pipelines to address community needs over short-term, medium-term, and long-term horizons.
• Influence Program Delivery: Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize adverse impacts on the infrastructure program.
• Participate in High-Level Forums: Actively participate in high-level forums and committees with government, industry, and other stakeholders to support successful regional infrastructure outcomes.
• Translate Policy Agendas: Ensure the translation of key policy agendas and priorities into specific services and products that will achieve outcomes and support the State’s infrastructure and land use aspirations.
• Provide Strategic Leadership: Offer positive and strategic leadership to the team through effective visioning, capability development, performance management, staff engagement, and resource deployment.
• Manage Resources: Oversee the financial and other resources of the Regional Infrastructure team within budget, timeframes, and government standards.

Diversity and Inclusion

We value and respect differences and the diversity of thought and experiences all our people bring. We encourage applicants of all genders, ethnicities, ages, languages, sexual orientations, disabilities, and family responsibilities to apply. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/614440/25

Closing Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2025

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