By Jess Baker
Southern Downs Regional Council has confirmed it is now another senior staff member down.
This news came less than one week after the council announced it would undertake some “internal changes”, and a job vacancy for Senior Economic Development Coordinator was advertised on its website.
A SDRC spokeswoman said the organisation’s Director of Infrastructure Services Seren McKenzie resigned “to take up a position elsewhere”.
She worked in SDRC for more than two years, delivering countless reports to the council during that time.
While it may seem as though the council has lost a number of its senior staff members in the last year, a council spokeswoman suggested there had only been a slight reshuffle.
“Twelve months ago the Senior Leadership structure at SDRC consisted of the CEO, three directors and ten managers,” she said.
“The current Senior Leadership structure consists of the CEO, four directors and eight managers.”
The council’s Director of Sustainable Development Jane Stroud was also said to have resigned from her role in April this year, after three years of service.
On 25 June, SDRC released a statement sharing there had been some “internal changes” undertaken at the council to “strategically support the future needs of the region”.
SDRC Chief Executive Officer Dave Burges told Warwick/Stanthorpe Today at the time that five positions within the organisation had been made redundant and three new positions had been created.
Affected staff were given until Friday 2 July to apply for vacancies within the council.
One of the vacant positions at the council, currently advertised on its website, is Senior Economic Development Coordinator.
