Development Management (Planning) Officer

Job Description

Permanent full-time or part-time considered with the opportunity to work flexibly from home, but within travelling distance of Huntingdonshire to accommodate office working and site visits.Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) is passionate about providing high quality services to our communities, residents and businesses. This this means we need to employ and retain the most talented and dedicated people.Situated within the heart of the Cambridge-Peterborough Growth Area, Huntingdonshire is a beautiful district that boasts thriving market towns and many attractive villages, each with its own identity. The Anglo-Saxon and Roman history is prevalent throughoutthe district in its historic buildings, churches and fine houses. The varied landscape of the district is comprised of the fens to the north, and gentle rolling landscape to the south. We are an innovative and forward-thinking local authority whose residentsare at the heart of our decision making.As an organisation we have an enviable financial position, solid service delivery, and now the structure in place to enable us to take advantage and respond to the opportunities to extend our influence beyond service delivery, and into the strategic shapingof Huntingdonshire as a place and the wider public service partnership.Role overviewWe are looking for a highly motivated Development Management (Planning) Officer to join our talented planning team. The role will involve dealing with an interesting and varied caseload of planning applications, including householders, prior notifications,advertisement consents, listed building consents, as well as small scale infill developments and other minor development proposals.The post will be ideal for a motivated and keen planning graduate looking for that first job, or somebody who has worked as a development management case officer in a local authority planning department or similar regulatory environment, or at an equivalentlevel in a private practice. You will be exposed to a healthy culture of learning, sharing knowledge, and you will be surrounded by friendly and approachable specialists, admin staff, planners, planning team leaders and managers.There will be regular cross working with other internal council teams (such as Planning Admin/Heritage/Strategic/Policy teams and the Enforcement teams), as well as external bodies, for example the Environment Agency.This role will require you to be present in Huntingdon on occasions and you must be comfortable working in various locations as required. We are currently working from home when covering the administrative part of this role, but you may be required to attendsite visits around Huntingdonshire as required.Please contact Recruitment for an informal discussion or further information about the post.We anticipate that interviews will be held the week commencing 4 April 2022.ApplyTo apply for this position please complete the application form on our website.The closing date is midnight on 28 March 2022Please note that the official closing date is as above and will be the correct date. Some third party websites may have different dates so please always refer to the HDC website for the official closing date to ensure you do not miss out on applying.At HDC we want to employ staff who embody our icare values (Inspiring, Collaborative, Accountable, Respectful, Enterprising), all of which support our ultimate purpose of putting our customers first.For many of our roles (and where it is possible) we are currently working remotely and anticipate in the future returning to a hybrid office model on a flexible basis. This will still include work from home and flexi-time opportunities in order to providea good work life balance whilst still ensuring that teams benefit from in person interaction. Candidates should therefore be within commutable distance of our offices in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire or able to attend meetings as required if further afield.As an employer who values diversity of thought, we seek to employ candidates from a range of backgrounds in order to make our organisation more innovative. We are seeking candidates who are looking for their next career opportunity and are a supportive employer,enabling our staff to work in an environment that produces high standards of work in an employee-led environment.Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of our recruitment and along with our values we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We therefore welcome applicationsfrom all sections of the community and we offer a range of benefits, including flexitime, to encourage a work life balance.Our benefits include:a highly competitive Local Government Pension Schemean array of services, networks and training to support your health and wellbeing such as Mental Health First Aiders and access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which includes financial guidance, wellbeing support and family counselling, amongst other servicesgenerous holiday entitlement dependent upon length of serviceheavily discounted gym membership at our One Leisure Centres and Training Shedtailored learning and development on an individual basis, including access to Bookboon which has over 1,500 resources dedicated to developmentcareer progression opportunities including apprenticeships of all levelsenhanced policies in many areasflexi-time and hybrid working (role permitting)cycle to work schemeoccupational health programmedigital parking permitlong service award.

Keyskills :
Development ManagementLocal AuthorityPlannersWorking Remotely