Is there a way to make it so only local staff on my wiki can move pages? We’ve had some issues with spam edits that could be mitigated by this, but I’m not sure how it can be done.
You can set specific pages under protection in order to do something like that— after this, it’s possible to set a desired protection level, even for admins (see Help:Page protection for further information.)
I'm not looking for page protection, I'm looking for a universal permission to disallow anyone that's not a local staff member from moving/renaming pages
No, something like that doesn't exist to my knowledge.
You should only protect a page from being moved if that page has experienced a lot of vandalism. You shouldn't stop a page from being moved because of vandalism that hasn't happened yet.
If there is a serious problem, and this is necessary, then it can be done by staff. We tend not to do it in general though, usually specific protections are enough