Macquarie Park, NSW, AU, 2113

You’re excited by opportunities to explore your potential and try something new.

You're a forward thinker who sees potential where others don't. You'll have the chance to shape and transform urban spaces, contribute to sustainable development and create vibrant, liveable communities for future generations to enjoy.

In this role, you'll:

The Property Development and Divestment sub-branch works across the Transport property portfolio of Transport for NSW and the Transport Asset Manager (TAM). The team identifies, assesses, plans and progresses property opportunities to support transport outcomes, housing and place outcomes, commercial performance, and broader public value.

The team works across the property development lifecycle, including opportunity identification, strategic assessment, feasibility, business case development, planning and approvals, transaction structuring, delivery coordination, and benefits realisation. It also plays an important role in strengthening branch-wide systems, reporting, governance and operational consistency across a statewide operating model.

We have an opportunity for a Senior Development Manager to join the team.

Reporting to the Director, Development, you will lead and support the identification, planning and delivery of a range of property development opportunities across the Transport property portfolio. You will also play a key role in driving continuous operational improvement to strengthen development practice, governance, reporting and delivery consistency across the branch.

This role will work across a diverse portfolio to help unlock value from residual, surplus and under-utilised property, supporting transport outcomes, housing and place outcomes, commercial performance, and broader public value. You will contribute across the full development lifecycle, from early opportunity assessment and feasibility through to planning, approvals, transaction readiness, delivery coordination and benefits realisation.

This is a senior role in a complex and high-profile environment, requiring strong commercial judgement, strategic capability and the ability to influence outcomes across a wide stakeholder group.

What you will be involved in

For more information on this position and business unit, please view the role description and information pack.

You are a capable and credible property professional with strong experience in property development, strategic planning, portfolio analysis or related commercial environments. You bring a strong understanding of how development opportunities move from concept to delivery and are comfortable working across strategy, governance, analysis and implementation.

You can connect long-term policy and market trends with practical actions that improve performance and unlock value from property assets. You will play an important role in supporting the success of the branch by monitoring and reporting on progress against business plan objectives, improving service delivery, using data and technology effectively, and supporting long-term financial sustainability.

You build strong, respectful and productive relationships and work effectively with internal teams and external partners to ensure strategies and initiatives are well understood, supported and embedded into day-to-day practice. You are also skilled at managing complex communication and engagement across multiple, and sometimes competing, stakeholders.

This role will suit a proven leader who is motivated by system-level impact and delivering long-term public value. You will bring the judgement, discipline and commercial insight to strengthen development practice, portfolio integration and decision-making at scale, together with the leadership maturity to influence outcomes across organisational boundaries.

Key knowledge and experience

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy

Applications close at 11:59 PM on Friday 15 May 2026.

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