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**East Suffolk Council, Lowestoft or Melton**:

- **£30,559 to £51,802 per annum (career grade) plus car allowance**:

- **37 hours per week**:

- **Permanent**

We are seeking to appoint **Planners** (at the appropriate career grade level) in the **Energy Projects Team** at East Suffolk Council.

It’s still town planning, just bigger. If you’re interested in working at the forefront of the UK’s Net Zero transition across a range of energy projects in East Suffolk, we’d love to hear from you.

**What You’ll Do in Your New Role**:
Working on large scale projects often means each week looks different. You’ll get to know the projects and will be involved across a range of topic areas, with your workload evolving as the projects progress.
- Attending meetings with internal technical officers, project developers, and key stakeholders
- Working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including elected members, town and parish councils, non-governmental bodies, environmental bodies, and communities
- Attending site visits/opportunities for working elsewhere, including attending forums and working groups around the district
- Dependent on experience, preparing presentations and briefing notes for use by officers and elected members and/or leading on their delivery
- During NSIP examinations, depending on experience, assisting or leading on the Council’s submissions including responses to requests for information and providing evidence at hearings
- Assisting or leading on the negotiation of legal agreements
- At **Senior Planner** level providing mentoring for less experienced members of the team, at **Principal Planner** level having management responsibilities.

**What you’ll have**:

- Enthusiasm and interest in renewable energy generation, large scale projects, and a willingness to jump into new areas of planning
- Strong interpersonal skills for building and maintaining effective working relationships with stakeholders, including clear written and oral communication skills and confidence in engaging with stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to digest and understand complex information and respond to it
- Commitment to quality output and outcomes
- An awareness of the Development Consent Order regime for NSIPs, and the Town and Country Planning Act

**What we can offer: Career progression and development**

The Assistant Planner role provides an opportunity for you to attain a planning post-graduate qualification providing access to progress to Planner level and to become a full member of the RTPI.

For the Senior Planner and Principal Planner positions the post holder requires full MRTPI membership, greater knowledge, and experience and there will be a requirement to either provide mentoring or management responsibilities dependent on the post. These posts also provide the exciting opportunity to lead on behalf of the Council on NSIPs.

The career grade system provides a clear path to progression in post. This is a great time to build a career as a planner working in the energy infrastructure consenting sphere, at a local authority uniquely positioned at the heart of the Net Zero transition.

We’re supportive of continuing professional development, including supporting you finding training courses to develop your planning knowledge and keep you up to date on NSIP best practice.

**You can find out more about the career grade progression, the exciting projects you can be part of, and who the team are in this document here (pdf).**

**Why work for us?**

East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Council, **take a look at our video and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work (YouTube)**.

In addition to the rural and urban diversity of East Suffolk itself, the district is close to the large urban centres of both Norwich and Ipswich, with rail services providing access to the Council’s offices by train. **We might be 'on the edge' but we can be accessed easily from a wide area (jpg)**and offer flexible and remote working in a dynamic team.

**Here are some of the main benefits**:

- Flexible working arrangements: the team works on a hybrid basis with a split of office-based and home working. We offer flexible, tailored and accommodating hybrid working arrangements to suit a wide variety of applicants
- Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)
- Local government pension scheme
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
- Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.

Find more information about what we offer in our **benefits brochure (pdf)**.

**To find out more**