Senior Planning Technician

Osborne Richardson have an opportunity for a Senior Planning Technician to join a busy local authority in South East London.

As Senior Planning Technician you will be involved with a range of administrative functions including:

1. Managing the end-to-end administration of planning service complaints, including logging/acknowledgement, tracking deadlines, coordinating input from service areas, quality-checking draft responses and ensuring replies are issued within required timescales.
2. Coordinating and responding to FOI, EIR and related information requests for the Planning Service, including liaising with officers to gather information, maintaining a clear audit trail, supporting redaction where required, and monitoring performance against statutory deadlines.
3. Supporting financial administration for the Planning Service, including income monitoring, cost recovery, raising purchase orders, receipting invoices, chasing 1. debt where appropriate, and producing regular reconciliations and management information.

Other duties will include dealing with inbound calls and providing advice to customers. On a day to day basis you will deal with a high volume of enquiries and you will help manage a busy flow of emails. Previous experience within a similar Planning or Complaints/FOI role for a Local Authority is essential.

The role will initially be offered for 24 weeks, but there is potential for it to be extended beyond this date. The rate offered is £28/hr Umbrella and this role is inside IR35.

Our client offers hybrid working with two days in the office and 3 days remote once training is completed.