Senior Planning Consultant

**Job Advert**:
**Salary**:Negotiable
**Hours**:37.5 hours per week, however there is a requirement to work flexibly to achieve the service requirements of the business
**Place of Work**:Nationwide

NB: Initally this post will provide Maternity Cover (up to 12 months) at our Business in Breckland, Norfolk
**Basis**:Permanent
**Annual Leave**: 23 to 27 days per annum depending on years of service (Plus BH)
**Travel**:Expectation to travel as required

An exciting and progressive career opportunity for somebody looking to play a key role in the delivery of an effective and efficient Development Management service for local authority clients in a successful, rapidly growing and forward-looking consultancy.
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About the role**:
As our Senior Planning Consultant, you will be part of an ambitious and award-winning team providing our clients with high quality, timely and outcome based Development Management services. You will be accountable for: -
- Preparing and presenting evidence on appeals for all clients.
- Contributing to service improvements to achieve cost efficiency and effectiveness whilst project managing your work to ensure client KPI's are met/exceeded in terms of timeliness and quality of output, adding value wherever possible.
- Contributing to the delivery and improvement of business management systems, procedures and processes.
- Providing support and guidance to peers and more junior staff to distribute knowledge and ensure contemporary planning issues and legislation are cascaded and understood.- **
What you will do**:
As our Senior Planning Consultant you will:

- Initially provide Maternity Cover (up to 12 months) at our Business in Breckland, Norfolk
- Be concise and possess the ability to communicate at all levels, be well organised and efficient, have a positive attitude, be proactive and solve problems to produce well balanced outcomes.
- Provide consistently high quality professional advice on planning matters to our clients, members of the public, Councillors and others as necessary
- Negotiate with applicants and agents in order to obtain high quality outcomes within given time constraints set out in our contractual arrangements with our core client and a range of external clients.
Develop positive new client relationships and promote our reputation within the built environment sector.
- Demonstrate ability to work alone on projects, to time and within budget as well as contributing and adding value to team projects.
- Be involved in service improvements and our business operations to ensure resilience competitive edge, efficiency and effectiveness going forward.
- Support your peers and mentor more junior staff to ensure project and team targets are met and knowledge and expertise is shared whilst assisting to secure new and repeat work in the way you deliver projects.
- Be willing to travel to meet our client requirements. Driving license required.
- Be agile, dynamic and have the capability to work in ever changing environments.

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Your experience will include**:

- A degree qualification in Town and Country Planning or working towards a formal qualification or demonstrable experience of working as a Senior Planning Officer or Planning consultant
High level of ability to prioritise and manage a workload whilst working flexibly to meet both the commercial and contractual needs of the business.
Being ambitious to enhance the reputation of the Development Management service for innovation, quality and timeliness of delivery.
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What's in it for you?**:
This is a pivotal time in our business development as we build on our established position as a leading provider of statutory planning services in the UK. Join us now and help shape our offer while continuing to deliver a first-rate planning service to our existing and new clients. We will motivate you to perform at your peak, recognising your achievements and rewarding them appropriately. As well as a generous basic salary we also offer you a minimum 23 day's holiday, discretionary annual bonus, company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, share save scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle.

Our business is an established and respected player in the Local Public Services markets, capable of challenging the 'status quo' and delivering outstanding client facing results.

There are strong career opportunities across the Capita group nationwide and overseas, with a strategy of secondment and resource sharing to enable maximum opportunity for individuals.

Our culture is one of promotion according to talent and impact, not time served in the business. Ambition is expected and rewarded. We invest heavily in our people, recognising that our staff are our most valuable asset. Individual training plans and accelerated schemes foster an environment of continual personal development.
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About Us**:
For more than 30 years Capita has