Graduate Town Planner

1 week ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 343356**Salary**:

- £32,178-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- HPTO**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Group: Regeneration Directorate: Planning Chief Planner**Type of role**:

- Planning**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 4Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Birmingham, Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) Town Planning Graduate Scheme offers a unique opportunity to start a career in planning at the centre of national policy.

The scheme offers a two-year scheme with placements across planning teams, giving the chance to get involved in developing new planning policies and be at the heart of planning decisions.

**Job description**:
Town Planning Graduates on the scheme will undertake placements on 6-month rotation across the planning divisions in DLUHC, developing new planning policies and/or delivering new planning legislation.

The scheme also offers learning and development opportunities, and support from a dedicated mentor (alongside your line manager).

Working across the Planning divisions which oversee government planning policy, graduates will take forward work to significantly improve the planning system, deliver a new National Planning Policy Framework, reform how we plan for infrastructure and drive digital transformation.

There may also be opportunities to spend time in planning roles in other government departments such as the Department for Transport and the Department for Education.

The roles will involve working with senior officials across Whitehall, as well as engagement with a wide range of external partners including business and local government.

Post holders will work collaboratively with colleagues across the various Planning and Housing Directorates as well as closely with legal colleagues, analysts and other government departments.

**Person specification**:
We are looking for planners who can demonstrate:

- Excellent written, presentational, and verbal communication skills.
- Good knowledge of the history and development of the town planning system in England and how the planning system in England works.
- Good understanding of the key priorities of the Government and how this will impact on the planning system, along with the key government planning policies.
- Ability to deliver pieces of work on technical planning matters to short deadlines.
- Good political awareness and understanding of central and local government.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Developing Self and Others
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- See selection process details for more information.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £32,178, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £8,688 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Technical skills.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

As part of our pre-employment checking process we will be using your CV to confirm your job history. Please note that by providing us with your CV you are consenting to us using the information enclosed as part of the checking process.

We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
- The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
- Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
- If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

**At sift, we will be assessing**

Behaviour (Lead Behaviour): Making Effective Decisions

Behaviour: Developing Self and Others

Behaviour: Delivering at Pace

Technical: Please provide an example of a situation that challenged a specific area of your town planning skills. What did you do to overcome that challenge?

There is a 250 word limit per question.

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