Planning Manager

Description

• Effective management of workload and keeping to task deadlines, this will require delegation of tasks.
• Carrying out public engagement, including formal consultation events where necessary.
• Drafting and signing off reports to support planning applications, appeals and policy presentations.
• Attending meetings and interviews with prospective landowners and agents to help secure new sites for the business to then promote.
• Assisting planners and graduate planners within your team with any queries they may have in a positive and constructive manner.
• Reviewing reports produced by external consultants, providing feedback and final sign off.
• Setting out planning and engagement strategies for sites, then ensuring their implementation.
• Undertaking site visits and meetings with landowners, agents and local authority officers.
• Complete research and reading to assist in developing a strategy for the promotion/allocation/planning application of a site.
• Producing well researched and presented reports and representations to assist in the promotion of sites and/or preparing reports to accompany the submission of planning applications.
• Co-ordinating and inputting to complex planning research tasks.
• Support the Planning Directors, Planning Mangers and Senior Project Managers as required, but also a wider brief on planning matters as requested by senior colleagues.

Requirements

• A strong work ethic.
• The ability to communicate to different audiences.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills.
• Ability to build rapport and relationships, both internally and externally.
• Experience of instructing and negotiating Section 106 agreements.
• Significant experience of preparing reports to support the submission of planning applications and/or the allocation of sites in a Local Plan.
• Experience of working within an environment focused on the promotion of sites through the development plan and planning application process.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Planning degree or equivalent qualification and eligibility for RTPI Membership.
• Effective time management.
• Extensive planning experience, either within a consultancy or local planning environment.
• The ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Demonstrable experience of undertaking research projects to support the delivery of a project.
• The ability to formulate and implement clear strategies for the promotion of sites, with limited input from senior colleagues.

Benefits

• Choice of Flexible Benefits
• 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)
• Competitive Salary
• Private Medical Cover - Single Cover
• Annual Medical Health Assessment
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Competitive Bonus Scheme

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance