Dublin City Council |

We are the largest Local Authority in Ireland, and one of the largest employers in Dublin City with over 6000 employees. Dublin City Council is at the heart of leading and shaping the city by providing a diverse, multi-layered and evolving range of services and projects for citizens, businesses, communities and visitors to Dublin. We provide over 900 services across key functional areas of Housing, Community, Planning, Development, Environment, Transport, Leisure and Cultural services.

Dublin: A Thriving City for All Clean, Green, Safe, Liveable, Accessible, Vibrant

We will stand up for Dublin and take a leadership role in the things that matter most to the City. We will deliver excellent, accessible and innovative public services that promote the well-being, and quality-of-life of all of Dublin’s citizens and communities.

Principles

• Fairness, integrity, honesty and the common good: We will adhere to these intrinsic local government values in our work, in our decision-making, and in our interactions. · Equality and Human Rights: We will work to eliminate discrimination, promote equality and protect human rights for the diversity of citizens and staff.
• Respect and value: We will foster a positive and supportive work environment where we respect and value diverse views and backgrounds and empower our teams to do their best in delivering excellent public service.
• Sustainability: We will protect and enhance our city to maximise quality of life and resilience for present and future generations.
• Transparency and Accountability: We will be accountable and responsible for all our decisions, ensuring they are communicated in an open and transparent manner.
• Collaboration and Innovation: We will work collaboratively across the organisation, with partners across the city, the region and internationally. We will embrace innovation to improve the quality of our service deliver

Shaping the City: You will be involved in meaningful work that directly impacts on the quality of life of all of our citizens, visitors and businesses through the provision of operations, services, projects and infrastructural developments.

Dublin City Council leads and collaborates with other key national and local stakeholders at all levels from Central Government to local communities.

Be part of a responsive and innovate organisation: Become part of the team that is innovating and transforming our services to enhance the quality of life of all who work, live and visit our capital city.

Learning and Development: We provide a wide range of opportunities to enhance your professional and personal development, including a scholarship and educational funding scheme and support for CPD.

Flexible Working Arrangements : We have a wide range of flexible working arrangements including hybrid or blended working, flexible working hours, work sharing, a Pro-rata Shorter Working Year or career breaks.

• Application stage - 3 week period
• Selection stage – 2-4 week period
• Interview Stage – 1 - 3 weeks
• Onboarding – 4- 6 weeks

Our Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty (‘the Duty’) obligations are the cornerstone of accessible and inclusive public services, policies and work environments and bring a critical focus on equality and human rights. Our commitment to equality and human rights is focused on those groups addressed by the Duty and covered by the grounds of gender; civil status; family status; age; disability; sexual orientation; race; religion; membership of the Traveller community; and disadvantaged socio economic status, as well as those at the intersections of these grounds, and individual rights holders under human rights instruments

We have a strong history of equality, diversity and inclusion. Be part of the team where everyone feels valued, everyone’s talents are utilised and the goals of the organisation are met.

Dublin City Council is dedicated to providing a safe and healthy work environment for every employee, to safeguard their health, welfare and wellbeing at work, as far as reasonably practicable. The Local Government People Strategy identifies the need to “develop a health and wellness framework that incorporates staff welfare, proactive health awareness campaigns and resilience programmes”. Enhancing the health and wellbeing of our staff is a crucial aspect of realising our strategic goal of Effective Management. Our Wellbeing Strategy, centred on prevention, aligns with our vision to establish a workplace that prioritises health. The aim is to integrate positive health and wellbeing into the cultural fabric of Dublin City Council. This involves addressing the four primary pillars of physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing for our employees, acknowledging that our selection of initiatives, programs, individual participation, behaviours, leadership and management practices collectively influence the overall health and wellbeing in the workplace.

We provide a wide range of opportunities to enhance your professional and personal development, including management development opportunities, personal and skills development an established PMDS process, a scholarship and educational funding scheme and support for CPD.

Leadership in local climate action is a vital role for Dublin City Council. It requires an ability to balance the needs and expectations of communities, the demands and constraints of national and EU policies, and the urgency and uncertainty of the climate crisis. Integrating climate and sustainable development considerations into all aspects of our work is supported by initiatives already in place such as the Local Authority Climate Action Charter, the Dublin City Council Climate Action Plan, and the Dublin Metropolitan Climate Action Regional Office, led by the City Council. Further enhancing our capacity to meet evolving responsibilities in this area, and to design and deliver our services in ways that support climate action and promote the behaviour change necessary amongst the public, will be critical to meeting this challenge in the longer term.

The Dublin City Development Plan 2022–2028 sets out the long-term vision for the city and promotes compact growth. It reflects the national and local housing targets to address the housing challenge within a plan-led sustainable framework and encourages residential development through proactive land management policies and planning frameworks. Dublin City Council is committed, as a priority, to delivering high quality homes under ‘Housing for All’ through a range of delivery mechanisms including Affordable Housing, Cost Rental and new Social Housing units. DRAFT Dublin City Council Corporate Plan 2025-2029 4 The Plan enhances the status of Dublin in the National Planning Framework and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy as Ireland’s leading global city of scale and Dublin’s success is key to the sustainable economic growth of the country.

The post pandemic impact upon the city centre has been recognised and to ensure sustainable growth for the capital city region there is a renewed focus on vibrancy, greening and investment in our city core area. The importance of collaborating with key stakeholders, state agencies, neighbouring authorities and international partners is critical to securing further sustainable growth of Dublin City