Senior Planning Policy Officer

1 month ago

Worcester, United Kingdom Worcester City Council Full time

**ROLE PROFILE**

**Job Title: Senior Planning Policy Officer**

**Job Family: Professional/Technical**
- **The ‘role profile’ is the contractual element that your post has been assigned to and generically sets out in broad terms the responsibilities the post holder is expected to have.**_

**Service Area: Economic Development & Planning Policy**

**Grade: OPS5/PTC (plus Market Forces Supplement reviewed annually)**

**Responsible to: Planning Policy Manager**

**Responsible for: N/A**

**Generic Responsibilities**:

- Provide specialist expertise in relation to the development of policy and interpretation of changing external requirements within the relevant professional discipline, taking account of service and community demands and the political priorities of the council.
- Provide specialist advice and support both internally and externally (whilst using good judgement to avoid risk, make decisions and resolve complex issues in the interests of the council and its people).
- Provide relevant **professional** and technical direction, support and training to colleagues (and guide the decisions they make).
- Lead on and deliver the review and updating of relevant (cross council) service specific policies and procedures.
- Represent and protect the reputation of the council both internally and externally as part of your work and advise on the formulation of associated strategy and framework.
- Retain relevant professional membership or licence, work to its codes and participate in learning that will help you perform your role successfully and the wider team meet the standards expected.
- Fulfil the work schedule and key performance targets set for your role and team including the management and delivery of a related caseload of work.
- Lead on or make a significant contribution to specific project work including the associated fundraising, budget oversight, procurement and purchasing.
- Lead a team of people to deliver a significant project (or **significant** part of a service) and plan the capacity, ability and work schedules accordingly.
- Demonstrate a strong customer focus when developing both internal and external partnerships relevant to your work (and continue this standard throughout any subsequent management of contracts).
- Take an entrepreneurial approach to your thinking, enabling you and your team to recognise opportunities for doing things more efficiently and then **play a lead role in** the embedding of process and performance improvement.
- Research, report and analyse performance management information to make useful recommendations for process and performance improvement (and advise management in their decision making).
- Provide a service link to other similar professionals across the council to ensure a corporate approach is achieved.

**Professional/Technical Roles
- TASK SPECIFICS**
- **The ‘task specifics’ is the non-contractual element that your post has been assigned to and is a more detailed description of day-to-day activity which will be reviewed in line with PDR objectives and can change when priorities change.**_

**JE Reference **_**EDP4.3**_

**Purpose**

To work on matters relating to strategic planning, researching and analysing information across a broad range of disciplines, forward planning, plan making, policy development, infrastructure delivery plans and city-wide topic studies, together with all elements of the statutory planning system.

**Service to Customers**
- To liaise with Worcestershire County Council, adjacent District Councils, and other relevant organisations and agencies in the proper planning of the City of Worcester including taking the lead in multi authority projects and plans, where relevant.
- To play a significant role in the preparation of the development plan for the City of Worcester, leading on specific policy areas as appropriate. To lead on the preparation of Supplementary Planning Documents and other planning policy reports, where required.
- To formulate programmes and allocation of work related to the Planning Policy function, and the necessary organisation and control, including line management of specific team members together with coordination of workload for officers from other services.

**Business Improvement/planning responsibility**
- To plan for the long term future growth and needs of the City on the basis of the objective assessment of a full range of technical evidence, together with the views of local residents, statutory and other key consultees.
- To contribute to monitoring the effectiveness of planning policies including the development of databases and the collection of relevant data, including through Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
- To contribute to the monitoring of s106 legal agreements, receipt and spending of developer contributions and Community Infrastructure Levy funding, including the production of an annual Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS).
- Analysis, interpretation and presentation of m

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