Senior Planning Officer

1 week ago

Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom Venesky Brown Full time
Job Title: Senior Planning Officer

Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Ipswich, is seeking a highly skilled Senior Planning Officer to join their team on a 3-month contract. This role will be based onsite and offers a competitive hourly rate of £34.62 through PAYE, or up to £50 via Umbrella.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide timely, clear, and effective professional advice to the public, councillors, and colleagues on a range of planning matters, including Minerals and Waste policy, development management, and NSIPs.
  • Assist with the organisation's inputs at various stages of NSIP delivery, including technical and professional input, instructing legal representatives.
  • Work with and support other planning staff involved in programming NSIPs and providing technical input.
  • Attend inquiries and examinations in public to represent the organisation on its position.
  • Provide professional planning advice and support for corporate development projects and other initiatives.
  • Monitor and keep under review the Minerals and Waste Local Plan.
  • Formulate responses to Local and Neighbourhood Plans and major planning applications, including NSIPs.
  • Assist with the alignment of delivery of infrastructure through Local Plans, the Community Infrastructure Levy, and section 106.
  • Provide strategic planning input to the preparation of Local Plans and other associated documents by District/Borough/Parish Councils.
  • Attend local plan examinations and planning inquiries.
  • Manage a caseload of planning applications, preparing reports for, and attendance at, Development and Regulatory Committee.
  • Mentor members of the Team in matters related to their professional development.
Essential Skills:
  • Degree in a development-related discipline (e.g. planning, transport, housing).
  • Qualifications necessary for membership of a relevant professional organisation.
  • Confident and persuasive communicator in person and in writing.
  • Able to produce clear, concise reports on a range of subjects within relevant timescales.
  • Able to programme inputs to deliver tasks or objectives for more than a year.
  • Ability to articulate clearly to others the requirements and justification for improving processes and the need for action.
  • Ability to concentrate for lengthy and, occasionally, prolonged periods for reports or attending public examinations.
  • Able to communicate effectively, with tact and diplomacy, with diverse and challenging audiences.
  • Advanced knowledge of planning law and policy and detailed knowledge of the operation of the systems governing Community Infrastructure Levy and planning obligations.
  • Intermediate knowledge of computer spreadsheets, databases, and other software.
  • Negotiation skills and knowledge of the economics of the development process.
  • Experience of the planning process, including analysing reports or data associated with planning applications, policy formulation, and implementation.
  • Experience of working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to develop shared solutions to complex problems.
Desirable Skills:
  • Member of Chartered Institute such as RTPI or RICS.
  • Post-graduate qualification in a related discipline (e.g. economic development).
  • Understanding of transport planning and the interaction of transport/highways legislation with planning processes.
  • Direct experience of planning policy formulation.
  • Direct experience of County Matters (Minerals and Waste Planning).
  • Experience of setting out and negotiating development contributions with developers and the local planning authority.
  • Experience of programming or setting a strategy for delivery over more than a year.
  • Experience of working effectively in a political environment and presenting reports to Committee.
  • Operation of Geographic Information Systems.
  • Mentoring/training junior team members.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.

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