Timna

‘I started my planning career in Council working in a customer service role on a planning counter. Here, I decided to study planning part-time and have now worked as a qualified urban planner for Council for the last 15 years.

I started out in development assessment and then had the opportunity to move to the policy area (City Planning) in 2006 to work on the first round of Neighbourhood Plans as part of the Neighbourhood Planning team. We got to work on the ground talking to the community about development issues and hear how they envisage their area growing into the future.

Since late 2008 I have been working in Strategic Planning. The Brisbane City Plan 2014 project has been the largest statutory planning project I have worked on. We got to deliver the entire planning scheme for the City for the next decade, in a user-friendly, interactive online platform. For a city the size of Brisbane this was simply an incredible experience – a once in a career type of opportunity.

Council offers a wide range of different roles, across different professions and fields of interest and offers opportunities for career development and study. You can start as a typist, study part-time, and end up as an Urban Planner!’