Information & Monitoring Officer
Information & Monitoring Officer
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Job Description
Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Salary: PO1 - PO2 39855 - 44331
Contract Type: Full time - Permanent
Working hours per week: 36
Application Deadline: 16/07/2025
Proposed Interview Date(s): W/C 21/07/2025
Reference:1797
About Us:
Bursting with culture energy and opportunity the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused insight-led digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of Londons Good Work Standardemployers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions workplace well-being skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
The Councils preference is for online application. However if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application please email so we can arrange an alternative application method.
About the role:
A hugely exciting opportunity has arisen for a Planning Policy Information and Monitoring Officer in the dynamic and diverse Place and Design Team at Waltham Forest Council. This is a key monitoring role in a team with a great track record and at the forefront of delivering vibrant green safe and accessible neighbourhoods across Waltham Forest.
The role
We are looking for someone creative and energetic with demonstrable planning policy skills; who is looking to build on and share those skills to help shape sustainable growth that meets genuine local needs with the right infrastructure delivered in the right places and according to the Councils innovative Exemplar Design principles and values. With the team focused on the implementation of our ambitious adopted Local Plan this role will be key to unlocking delivery of new homes workspace and infrastructure across the right candidate will be interested in strategicplanning data and urban will be responsible for the collection and analysis of data relating to development in the borough. Youwill use your analytical research communication and presentation skills to monitor the performance of the Local Plan policies assess their effectivenessand communicate the successes and opportunities associated with the delivery of the addition to your monitoring role you will also contribute to other policy work of the team.
You will work well with others and have the ability to communicate ideas and proposals effectively and will enjoy taking a creative approach to problem solving. This is a role that requires building and maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
In this role you will work in multidisciplinary team alongside a Principal Developer Contributions Officer Principal Planning Policy Officer Developer Contributions Support Officer GIS Officer and Data Quality Officer and report to the Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Lead.
The Place and Design Team
We are delivering the Councils Missions for a fairer borough through inclusive growth and ensuring that we deliver the new homes and jobs needed and that they are of exemplar quality and supported by the right infrastructure in the right places. We are committed to engaging the boroughs diverse communities at all stages of the development cycle to ensure that future development brings the benefits they need and tackles the Climate Emergency head on.
We work within an inclusive structure that rejects silos embraces sharing and learning and works flexibly and collaboratively. We have adopted a matrix working approach that assembles the right teams for the right projects building resilience and skills. We also work collaboratively with other teams across the council including Development Management Area Regeneration Employment Business and Skills Culture Housing Property Capital Delivery Strategy & Design and Highways and engage meaningfully with our local communities businesses strategic authorities (such as GLA TfL) investors and developers.
We are building a reputation as an innovative positive proactive team that delivers excellent results with work produced in house including an adopted Local Plan award winning buildings and public spaces our special Waltham Forest Design Awards a visionary Leyton Mills SPD and a first class Local Heritage List.
Key Responsibilities:
As part of the Place and Design team the role holder will carry out planning information andmonitoring tasks involving the collection analysis and monitoring of spatial planning data including housing commencements and completions housing land availability industrial commercial office retail vacant premises Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspaces (SANGs) and other data sets required to monitor spatial planning objectives.
The role holder will prepare the Authoring Monitoring Report and contribute to the preparation implementation and review of the Councils Local Plan and other policy documents particularly through the preparation and ongoing review of an up-to-date housing trajectory that ensures the borough has an ongoing deliverable five year land supply.
They will also manage the Freedom of Information requests that come to the Place and Design team.
Qualifications and Requirements:
A degree level qualification (or equivalent) in planning or closely related subject or a relevant professional qualification.
Experience knowledge and understanding of National Planning Policy Framework and the process of preparing a Local Plan preparation of supplementary planning documents review and in particular monitoring of Local Plan policy.
Experience of working in a Planning Department including spatial planning data and information monitoring or related experience from working in another part of the development industry.
Good understanding of how services are provided in a local government context and the issues facing local government.
Good political awareness and experience of community engagement.
Good understanding of the importance of customer satisfaction with a strong customer focused attitude.
User of database systems and experience of recording analysing and reporting complex data and information.
User of Microsoft Office especially Word and Excel and other relevant software enabling the review and maintenance of the Local Plan process. Experience or knowledge of using GIS/mapping systems.
Experience of providing information and advice to key decision makers such as elected members and service directors.
Ability to communicate effectively using a wide variety of media and methodologies including written oral and visual means of communication.
Self-motivated enthusiastic and able to work with minimal supervision.
Accustomed to managing conflicting deadlines and a demanding workload.
Demonstrable commitment to equal opportunities and equality in employment and service delivery.
Ability to undertake site visits.
Terms and conditions:
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
Satisfactory declaration of interest;
As a public authority we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English with confidence and accuracy sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications regional or international accents dialects speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the Apply button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair appropriate accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2 internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
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 or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council please visit Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process please contact Marcin Manikowski Head of Strategic Planning and Infrastructure at
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post please contact our Recruitment Team via email at .
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Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
