City Design Lead
Join a progressive city shaping team responsible for planning quality places, spaces and urban outcomes for the future of the City of Unley.
- Help shape future places, spaces and public realm outcomes
- Strategic urban design and placemaking opportunity
- Influence projects from concept through to future planning
The City of Unley is one of Adelaide’s most recognised inner metropolitan councils, known for its vibrant main streets, strong community feel, established character and progressive approach to the future of the city.
Guided by its Towards 2050 vision, the City of Unley is focused on creating a connected, progressive and resilient city where people, places and opportunities continue to thrive. With significant long-term planning initiatives underway, this is an opportunity to contribute to projects that will genuinely influence the future direction of the city.
Role Overview
The City Design Lead will be responsible for strategic design initiatives across the City of Unley.
Responsible for the future planning and design of public space opportunities, this 5-year contract position will lead projects that shape how people experience places and spaces throughout Unley. The position will work closely with internal teams, consultants, elected members and the community to help guide design thinking and future city outcomes.
About the Person
The successful candidate will bring experience across urban design, landscape architecture, placemaking or related built environment disciplines, along with strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability.
Strong design thinking, collaboration skills and the ability to work across complex projects and stakeholder environments will be highly regarded, along with the ability to balance strategic thinking with practical and community focused outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to strategic urban design initiatives (streetscape, main streets, parks, sports facilities and community infrastructure)
- Support place activation and public realm opportunities
- Develop concepts and future-focused project ideas
- Facilitate stakeholder and community engagement
- Coordinate consultants and project inputs
- Prepare reports, presentations and strategic advice
- Background in urban design, landscape architecture or similar
- Experience across placemaking or strategic design projects
- Strong communication and engagement capability
- Ability to think conceptually and strategically
- Experience working across collaborative project environments
The City of Unley is building a collaborative and future-focused environment where ideas, initiative and teamwork are genuinely valued. This is an opportunity to join a progressive team focused on shaping meaningful long-term outcomes for the community and the future of the city.
For more information, please contact Joanne Murtagh on 0489 279 011 or Elena Bacon on 0483 915 113.
Please note – all applicant resumes must be submitted in Word format only.
