Proactive Planning Relationship Manager

The Service & Team: We want to be a proactive planning service, and we are improving our pre-application services to help guide proposals for large scale investment and growth, by providing consistent, clear, professional and cost-effective support.

The Role: We are seeking a Relationship Manager to take a lead role in ensuring the successful delivery of our new and improved pre-application advice services, helping us to ensure new development meets the needs of our communities, delivering high quality homes, jobs and infrastructure. The role will be the front face of the service for customers requesting pre-application advice and will involve creating bespoke packages of support for pre-application enquiries. You will prepare project plans for each Planning Performance Agreement and bring together the project team, working closely with applicants, the planning officer, internal stakeholders and councillors to secure their involvement at appropriate times. You will monitor performance to ensure the provision of timely advice, and you will troubleshoot issues to help deliver the Council’s priorities.

Working Pattern: 37hrs per week

What you’ll need to succeed: Knowledge and experience of the development industry and an understanding of the planning system is essential, along with proven skills in project management principles and methodologies, and exemplary organisation and communication skills. Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert.

What you’ll get in return: Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions.
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme.
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information: Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. The full role profile is attached here. For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Jo.McCabe@cornwall.gov.uk.

Application Process: Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work/personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process. Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application. Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.