Duty Officer (Planning)

Job description

The Vacancy

North Lincolnshire is a rural county with picturesque villages and within easy reach of the North East, Yorkshire and the East Midlands. The motorway network enables easy access to many major cities.

North Lincolnshire is known for our masses of green space, good and outstanding schools and excellent housing offer.

We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual, who is keen to develop and widen their professional knowledge and experience in our busy Development Management Team.

Significant infrastructure, housing and regeneration investment is taking place within North Lincolnshire. Forming part of the Humber Energy Estuary, the Team are working on a number of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project's bringing the area to the forefront of energy related transformation and port-centric related activity through the development of the Humber Freeport and a variety of decarbonisation projects. These are exciting times for the area and provide the backdrop for the opportunities currently available within our Development Management function.

The Development Management Team is a friendly and ambitious service. With agile working arrangements in place, and a new and progressive workspace in a town centre location, you will join a team used to working collaboratively with colleagues across our organisation.

This opportunity has arisen at a particularly interesting time as we look to support North Lincolnshire Developers, Agents, Businesses and Residents to invest in the area.

The postholder will provide a high quality, front-line customer service, information, advice and guidance on planning issues, they will also provide pre-application advice and have a caseload of applications. With a well - developed knowledge of planning procedures and the ability to work to multiple deadlines you will join us in achieving the very best for our communities, creating an area that is safe, well, prosperous and connected.

Joining our progressive and welcoming team will bring a range of benefits, including:

• A competitive salary
• An attractive relocation package
• A comprehensive induction
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Agile working arrangements (we will consider requests for permanent homeworking from applicants who reside in other parts of the country).

Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

If you are interested in joining us to achieve better outcomes for our residents and communities and would like an informal discussion about this role, please contact Tanya Coggon at [email protected] or Dean Watson at [email protected]

The Council

We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values - equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility - in all that we do.

The Benefits

Staff discounts

Annual leave

Access to pensions

Salary sacrifice
schemes

Free car parking

Eye test and glasses reimbursements