Council seeks at least 18 staff

THE Queenstown Lakes District Council is short of at least 18 staff, including some for senior positions.

The council already has 451 people on its payroll — 54 in Wanaka and 397 in Queenstown.

Communications and engagement manager Naell CrosbyRoe told the Otago Daily Times yesterday the council was recruiting to fill vacancies and new positions.

Some new jobs were the result of increased planning, and construction of infrastructure, and one advertisement listed is for an unspecified number of health and fitness aquatics staff to supervise and control Wanaka’s new swimming pool in the Three Parks subdivision, due to open next month.

The council needs a new parks and reserves planning manager.

It also needs a policy and performance manager to deal with strategic policy, corporate planning, organisational per formance and risk management, a corporate policy adviser to develop and monitor corporate services policies and a policy planner.

It is advertising for a senior engineer, a property manager, and a community operations officer who would resolve general infrastructure operational matters.

A climbing instructor, a gardener and two communications jobs are also on the list — council communications adviser Jimmy Sygrove left his role yesterday.