R2RIRPrincipal Planner
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Job Location:
Southend on Sea - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Your New Organisation
Southend on Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community. We employ around 1800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the city vision and make lives better for the people of Southend. We are a vibrant place to live and work offering coastal living alongside excellent and fast transport links into London.
We have some 180000 residents with 7 miles of waterfront an international airport a university and great transport links to London and surrounding areas. The Planning team achieves nationally leading application performance and has a history of dealing with high profile projects.
Your new role
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Principal Planner to join our Planning team on an interim basis. This fulltime and interim role is for 6 months offers a hybrid working pattern and presents an excellent opportunity for a senior planning professional to provide expert support during a key period for the service.
We are seeking an experienced knowledgeable and highly focused individual to act as the Principal Planner lead for the Councils handling through to decision of a major outline planning application for a 2000 home residential development within the Citys green belt.
What youll need to succeed
To be successful in the role you will be a confident and experienced planning professional with strong technical knowledge sound professional judgement and excellent communication skills. You will be comfortable managing complex caseloads in an interim environment working autonomously and collaborating effectively with colleagues and external partners. You must have strong working knowledge of existing and emerging policy very special circumstances assessment environmental and green belt matters and have good experience of handling large scale residential planning applications and presenting to Planning Committees.
You will have excellent analytical organisational and report writing skills operating proactively with minimum supervision and sound experience of working in or with multi-disciplinary teams. Youll have a robust understanding of political context stakeholder dynamics and decision-making processes within local planning authorities. You need to have a strong track record of resolving conflict negotiating pragmatic solutions and maintaining effective relationships.
Your application will not be considered if you do not have a degree in planning.
What you need to do now
If you are interested in this role please click apply online to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.
Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.
The Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications regardless of race sex disability sexual orientation gender reassignment marital or civil partner status pregnancy or maternity age or religion or belief.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- GIS
- JAWS
- Military Experience
- Business Management
- Emergency Management
- Joint Operations
- Production Planning
- Relationship Management
- Strategic Planning
- ERP Systems
- Exercise Planning
- MRP
