Senior Planning Obligations Officer Internal applicants only

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicestershire LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary:

Working Hours:37 hours per week (fulltime) (applications for parttime hours will be accepted)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 20 April 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC expected WC 12 May 2025

Senior Planning Obligations Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced officer with ambition and passion for supporting the delivery of crucial infrastructure to join our Planning team. You will be working with stakeholders across the County Council Leicestershire District Councils and beyond who are all involved in the calculation negotiation security and collection of financial and nonfinancial contributions from developers. Your role will be to support the current Planning Obligations Team and provide technical planning guidance and experience to support and enhance the current team and to help shape how developer contributions are managed.

On a daytoday basis you will manage a case load which spans one or more of the Leicestershire districts and will also contribute towards the management of complex sites of significant importance and when required will attend planning appeals to support the County Councils requests for developer contributions and how they accord with the relevant planning legislation.

As well as this your work will involve collaborating with stakeholders across the authority helping to provide data advice and assurance on the management of developer contributions that the authority has collected or will collect in the future (through s106 and other mechanisms including s278 and CIL where appropriate) including being the link to the County Councils Strategic Planning Team as part of the Local Plans process.

Therefore to apply for this role you will have significant experience in managing and responding to planning applications know how the Local Plan process works and have experience in attending planning appeals and justifying developer contributions against relevant local and national policy.

You will be working with people with different skills and from different backgrounds and therefore need to be engaging enthusiastic and innovative as well as be able to present yourself with confidence to internal and external colleagues of all levels. You should not be afraid to share ideas or to want to make things better.

Essential Requirements:

• Hold a degree in planning or other related discipline
  
• Chartered membership of the RTPI or other related professional body
  
• Significant experience of planning and developer contributions including an understanding of the relevant NPPF and CIL Tests
  
• Ability to engage and negotiate with people at all levels from different backgrounds keeping relationships positive constructive and collaborative
  
• The ability to process and interpret complex information and present findings to senior stakeholders and crossdepartmental working
  
• The ability to apply a variety of analytical and critical thinking skills to a variety of scenarios
  
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines without close supervision
  
• A commitment to performing all duties in line relevant legislation such as GDPR and the Equality Act 2010

You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Mark Johnson Team Manager Planning Obligations and Systems

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How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

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