Senior Planning Officer
Posted 7 days ago by Carrington West
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Essex, UK
Summary: Carrington West is seeking a Senior Planning Officer for a local authority client in Essex on a 3-month rolling contract. The role involves supporting the Development Management Manager to ensure performance targets are met while delivering high-quality planning services. The position requires managing complex planning applications and providing specialist advice while collaborating with various stakeholders. Immediate availability for interviews is preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Development Management Manager in leading team performance and meeting statutory targets.
- Contribute to the delivery of a customer-focused Planning & Implementation department.
- Ensure compliance with statutory regulations and Council policy.
- Manage general enquiries, pre-applications, planning applications, and appeals.
- Deliver specialist advice and services in Development Management.
- Manage complex and contentious planning applications and act as a single point of contact for customers.
- Support and guide Graduate Planners and Technical Support colleagues.
- Collaborate with colleagues, Members, and stakeholders including Essex County Council.
- Access and update relevant information systems in accordance with Data Protection principles.
- Prepare and present reports to planning committees and attend appeal hearings.
- Maintain personal and professional development in relevant law and policies.
Key Skills:
- RTPI accredited Planning Degree or equivalent qualification.
- Experience in a similar planning position.
- Strong knowledge of planning regulations and legislation.
- Ability to manage complex planning applications.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in preparing and presenting reports.
- Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Salary (Rate): £45 Hourly
City: Essex
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Carrington West are assisting their local authority client based in Essex in the search for a Senior Planning Officer on a 3 month rolling contract basis.
Key Responsibility:
To support the Development Management Manager in leading the teams overall performance ensuring all statutory targets and any locally set targets are met.
Key Accountabilities:
To contribute towards the delivery a high quality, customer focused Planning & Implementation department with high standards of advice and support, resolving cases of varying complexities in Development Management. Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, legislation, professional codes of practice and adherence to Council policy. Deliver projects, interventions and initiatives and develop policies in line with corporate and business plans. To deal effectively and efficiently with general enquiries, pre-applications, planning applications and planning appeals ensuring cases are managed and completed at the appropriate level of skillset. Ensure and develop appropriate levels of quality and specialist knowledge with other Planning & Implementation colleagues.
Deliver customer-focused specialist advice and services in Development Management, keeping up to date with current and emerging legislation, best practice and policy to ensure continuous development and improvement in services.
Manage complex and/or contentious planning applications, processes and compliance, regulations and legislation, acting as the single point of contact for customers on those cases and attending appeals hearings and public inquiries as appropriate.
Support, guide and advise Graduate Planners and Technical Support colleagues, as necessary.
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, as well as Members and managing key relationships with partners including Essex County Council and Local Councils and other stakeholders.
Access and accurately update all relevant information systems, both customer and Back Office ensuring that the master customer record is updated and maintained through verification and validation, and in accordance with Data Protection principles.
Prepare and present reports to Area Planning Committees, District Planning Committee, and other internal and external meetings and present evidence/stand as witness at planning appeal hearings and public inquiries.
Ensure own personal and professional development is maintained including keeping up to date with relevant law, policies, working practices and procedures.
It would be beneficial to hold a RTPI accredited Planning Degree or equivalent Planning qualification and/or have experience in a similar position.
Our client is looking for someone to start almost immediately and is available to interview at short notice.
Carrington West Pay Rate - £45per/hour
Job Ref - 62433
Please call Cameron de Wit on (phone number removed) for a confidential discussion on this role, or email myself or our planning team if you are short of time to chat:
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Carrington West's dedicated Town Planning Recruitment Team supply clients UK wide on both a permanent and contract basis and all levels of seniority. If this role is too senior, too junior or in a location that is unsuitable, but you are keen on options, please still feel free to apply and we can discuss other, often unadvertised roles with you.