At a Glance
- Tasks: Engage in planning appraisals and manage development projects for diverse clients.
- Company: Dynamic planning firm with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and networking opportunities.
- Other info: Mentorship opportunities and a supportive team environment.
- Why this job: Shape communities and make a real impact through strategic planning.
- Qualifications: RTPI qualified planner with at least 2 years of experience.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Role & Company
Working alongside our existing team, you will be tasked with working on private, public and community Clients. This team are skilled in working across a wide variety of sectors and on projects that are small through to large scale. The focus of this role will see you engaging in a range of development plan, policy, and development management work. This will include planning appraisals, co-ordinating pre-application and planning applications, preparing local plan representations, site promotion and appeals. You will be encouraged to attend networking events and further build your own Client base through networking.
- Role Requirements
- RTPI qualified town planner, with a minimum 2 years' experience across both the private and public sectors.
- Ambitious and confident personality, ready to further build your own Client base.
- Proficiency
- demonstrate a good and improving level of professional competence, achieving a consistently high standard of delivery.
- produce clear, well researched and structured work
- be able to exercise independent professional judgement
- have the ability, and drive, to set stretching targets and seek to optimise personal performance
- display clear concise analytical and communication skills with both Clients and colleagues alike, commanding respect
- can determine and manage resources, demonstrating effectiveness as a project manager
- motivate, coach, and support others to achieve. Proactively providing feedback to senior colleagues
- maintain pro-active communication, internally and with Clients, and third parties
- value and use the expertise of others
- deliver against Client requirements
- network effectively
- understand the commercial realities of the business and the marketplace
- demonstrate cost control
- identify opportunities for profit
Duties
- Preparing and submitting planning applications and supporting documents (writing of Planning
- Statements, Design & Access Statements)
- Preparing of Policy representations
- Preparing Appeal submissions
- Giving oral evidence at Appeals and Examinations
- A thorough understanding of planning law, relevant court judgements and national planning policy
- Undertake site visits and site appraisals
- Attendance at committee meetings to include speaking
- Developing client relationships both new and existing
- Managing and co‐ordinating project teams
- Mentoring junior members of staff to ensure all reports are correct prior to their submission
- Preparation and Attendance at Public Exhibitions, preparing exhibition material and hosting
- Write Statements of Community Involvement Documents
- Maintaining project files (manual &electronic)
- Undertake their own administration work as necessary
- Maintain detailed, accurate time recording
- Draft fee proposals in liaison with the Accounts Manager
Notes: The list of duties provided is not exhaustive.
- Competencies
- EXPERTISE
- Professional competence
- Good and improving level of professional competence
- Stay abreast of new developments in the profession
- Achieve a consistently excellent standard of delivery
- Display commitment and contribute to CPD activities
- RTPI accredited
- Performance focus
- Sets stretching targets for self
- Seeks to optimise personal performance
- Is prepared to move out of comfort zone
- Looks for business development opportunities
- OWNERSHIP
- Manages own workload and carries out wide range of work
- Determines and manages resources
- Is an effective project manager
- Leads effectively to ensure priorities aremet
- Developing Others
- Motivates others to achieve
- Coaches and supports others to improveperformance
- Proactively provides feedback to senior colleagues
- INTEGRITY
- Quality focus
- Produces clear well researched and structuredwork
- Looks for opportunities to improvequality
- Able to exercise independent professionaljudgement
- Communication
- Display clear and concise analytical and communicationskills
- Use a range of communication channels to achieve results
- TEAMWORK
- Teamworking
- Builds and maintains constructive working relationships with team and others
- Values and uses expertise of others
- Relationship building
- Relates well to clients andcolleagues
- Commandsrespect
- Networks effectively
- COMMERCIALITY
- Client focus
- Relates well to clients and commands theirrespect
- Maintains proactive communication withclients
- Clearly delivers against clientrequirements
- Commercial focus
- Understands the commercial realities of the business and the marketplace
- Controls costs
- Identifies opportunities for profit
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