Assistant Manager - Commercial Transactions

Job Type: Full-time, Ongoing

Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Job Category: Property & Real Estate

About Us At Development Victoria, we’re passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government’s development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

Job Description Your New Role In this newly created role as Assistant Manager, Commercial Transactions, you will provide transaction management functions that support Development Victoria’s housing, infrastructure, and land development programs. This includes implementing transaction governance structures and tender processes that align with probity and process policies and transaction management plans.

If you are methodical, have excellent attention to detail, can clearly communicate requirements and are a self-driven professional who thrives in fast paced environments, we would love to hear from you.

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Core Accountabilities

• Provide transaction management for commercial transactions, including land, housing, precincts and infrastructure projects.
• Support the compiling of site due diligence materials (or briefing consultants in the preparation of such materials), rezoning, instructing valuations, and other land divestment enabling activities.
• Support in the drafting and implementation of efficient government Expression of Interest and Request for Proposals tender processes and evaluation tools, ensure alignment with probity, governance, and High Value High Risk (HVHR) policy requirements where applicable.
• Prepare transaction timelines and manage consultants and transaction programs to time and budget.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across government, legal, and private sectors and utilise these networks to source information.
• Support in the preparation of briefs and reports senior management consideration.

About You Desired Skills and Experience You are a driven individual with strong Microsoft suite skills and possess a passion to learn, grow and develop your understanding. You’re comfortable navigating complex stakeholder environments and able to clarify instructions and ask for help when required.

You bring a collaborative mindset, a practical approach to problem-solving, and resilience in dynamic and high-stakes environments.

What skills do we expect you to have?

• Tertiary qualifications in project management, finance, commerce, law, property development, construction, civil engineering or other property associated discipline.
• Experience in planning, design, master planning and/or divestment processes is advantageous.
• Intermediate use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Adobe Acrobat Pro or other PDF based programs.
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations and project updates.
• Experience working in a complex stakeholder environment requiring liaison with, and coordination of, multiple stakeholders.
• Some exposure to the preparation and analysis of financial feasibility studies, with software such as EstateMaster Development Feasibility, as well as budgeting and cost monitoring (desirable, but not essential).
• Experience in the preparation of documentation, letters, emails and reports using clear, concise and grammatically correct language.
• A collaborative style and the ability to influence and build credibility with a wide range of stakeholders.

Employee Benefits

• We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.

• Professional development opportunities available including;

• Study support
• Mentoring programs

• Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.

• Novated leasing
• Purchase leave
• Paid parental leave
• Technology salary sacrifice
• Employee referral bonuses
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
• Access to group life & group salary continuance in…