Senior Analyst (AO6)

Your team – Development Services

The Development Services team is a multidisciplinary group of planning, urban design, built form, engineering and commercial professionals responsible for identifying and delivering Priority Development Areas (PDAs) and other catalyst sites and precincts across Queensland. The team enables new housing, commercial and mixed‑use development by leading planning activities, managing development approvals, and administering a significant infrastructure funding program. This ensures essential infrastructure is delivered in the right locations at the right time, accelerating the supply of development‑ready land.

Your contribution

Working to your strengths, as an AO6 Senior Analyst, you will support strategic planning and operational activities associated with EDQ’s infrastructure charging policies. Key activities and responsibilities may include:

• Prepare core components of financially sustainable development charges financial models for future trunk infrastructure, including undertaking cost estimation, validating inputs, and drafting schedules of works for review by senior officers.
• Undertake and review complex infrastructure charge calculations, provide informed advice to applicants and internal teams, and resolve moderately complex policy interpretation matters, escalating only high‑risk cases.
• Carry out day‑to‑day delivery of EDQ’s infrastructure offset functions, including conducting scope and cost assessments, preparing recommendations for consideration by managers, and overseeing accurate tracking and reporting of offset workloads.
• Prepare and support the implementation of business and process improvements, policies, procedures and guidelines related to offsets, infrastructure charges and financial matters that deliver on EDQ’s strategic objectives.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, supporting negotiation, issue resolution and high‑quality client service.
• Coordinate auditing, cleansing and quality assurance of data used for infrastructure project financials, ensuring data integrity and reliability for modelling and reporting.
• Work closely with planning and engineering teams to strengthen financial governance practices, contributing expert advice and coordinating cross‑disciplinary inputs to support informed decision‑making.