Planning Officer - Maldon District Council

Job description

Planning Officer - Maldon District Concil

Maldon District Concil

Temporary, Fll Time

£35. per hor (mbrella)

Location: Maldon

Closing Date: 16th October 6

Essex Conty Concil (ECC) are delighted to be spporting Maldon District Concil to recrit a Planning Officer on a three-month temporary basis. Please note that this role reqires days a week site attendance.

Role Prpose:

To provide a range of timely and effective gidance, ensring compliance, good practice, risk management and enabling the Concil to deliver for its cstomers.

To spport the planning team in delivering high-qality planning services that balance commnity, environmental, and reglatory considerations.

The assessment and processing of planning applications, ensring compliance with legislation, local policies, and national planning gidance.

The preparation of reports, recommendations, and planning advice for internal and external stakeholders, inclding Members, developers, and the pblic.

To spport the development and delivery of planning strategies, policies, and projects that enable sstainable growth and positive commnity otcomes.

To maintain accrate records and databases, ensring information is p-to-date, accessible, and compliant with data protection reqirements.

Key Accontabilities:

The assessment and processing of planning applications, ensring adherence to relevant legislation, policies, and gidance.

Prepare reports, recommendations, and spporting docmentation for internal and external stakeholders, inclding Members, developers, and the pblic.

Spport the implementation and development of local planning policies, strategies, and projects to deliver sstainable development otcomes.

Maintain accrate records and planning databases, ensring information is p-to-date, accessible, and compliant with data protection reqirements.

Contribte to consltations with internal teams, external agencies, and commnity stakeholders, providing advice and gidance as reqired.

Identify opportnities for process improvements, spporting initiatives to enhance efficiency, cstomer service, and compliance within the planning service.

Develop professional knowledge and expertise in planning practice, legislation, and policy, applying learning to spport effective decision-making.

Provide professional spport to more senior planners and contribte to collaborative team projects, inclding research, data analysis, and policy development

The Experience Yo Will Bring:

An ndergradate degree in Planning, rban Planning, Geography, Environmental Management, or a related discipline, or eqivalent professional experience.

Eligibility to work towards Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institte (MRTPI) or eqivalent professional body.

nderstanding of the planning system, relevant legislation, and national and local planning policies.

Awareness of sstainable development principles and their application in a local athority context.

Knowledge of cstomer service standards and approaches in a pblic sector environment.

nderstanding of data protection and information management principles.

Awareness of planning procedres, inclding consltations, enforcement, and commnity engagement.

Familiarity with digital systems, GIS, and other IT tools sed in planning service delivery is desirable.

To read more abot s please visit: https://www.maldon.gov.k/site/

Maldon District Concil is an eqal opportnities employer and therefore all staff are expected to comply with or eqality policies and help create a work environment in which everyone is treated with dignity, respect, cortesy and fairness. Yo are also expected to flly comply with health and safety policies and procedres in force to help maintain and develop a safe working environment. In prsing a practice of continos improvement and seeking to obtain best vale in all aspects of the service, staff will be expected to assist in other sch dties as may be allocated for the benefit of the organisation and their own personal development. Staff will be expected to assist if the concil has to deal with the reslts of a civil emergency.

What yo shold do next

If yo are interested in finding ot more abot this role, we wold love to hear from yo. Please apply via the Working for Essex website or email [email protected]

Please note that Maldon District Concil has determined that the off-payroll working rles will apply to this assignment and where a worker elects to provide their services throgh an intermediary (sch as a personal services company) then income tax and primary national insrance contribtions will be dedcted at sorce from any payments made to the intermediary.