Planning Officer

Planning Officer

Belfast

£13.91 per hour

MAIN PURPOSE

To provide a professional town planning service and contribute to the delivery of community planning and housing priorities to build sustainable communities through effective place shaping and land use in line with our vision and values.

Key Responsibilities

1. To support the Social Housing Development Programme by identifying and supporting schemes in areas of Housing Need.

2. To undertake land asset activity, with an emphasis on evaluation, broader estate studies, support for Transfer Schemes and related planning applications.

3. To assist in housing led regeneration and provide a local enabling role to support delivery of new housing development including mixed-use and mixed tenure neighbourhood.

People Management:

14. To work within a small regeneration team to ensure delivery of key objectives in a timely and effective manner.

15. To provide advice, assistance, support and guidance to staff in relation to daily priorities and ensure staff are continually briefed on priorities, targets ad current performance objectives.

16. To instil and promote an ethos of continuous improvement within the Team, so that current performance standards can be challenged and improved through new ways of working, without compromising service delivery or control.

General:

17. To provide a high level of internal and external customer service.

18. To ensure continued and effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

19. To comply with and enforce all NIHE frameworks, policies and procedures, including but not limited to those relating to legal requirements such as equality, health and safety, information governance and procurement.

20. To undertake any other duties, which may be assigned to meet organisational need, that is reasonably regarded as within the nature of the duties, responsibilities and grade of the post as defined.

Essential Criteria

1. Hold an RTPI accredited planning qualification, or an equivalent which is accredited by an appropriate professionally recognised organisation e.g. IPI or RICS (P&D).

2. Demonstrate relevant experience of working in a planning/regenerationenvironment.

4. Possess a full current UK driving licence or have access to a form of transport that will permit the candidate to meet the requirements of the post in full.

Desirable Criteria

1. Candidates should ideally be members of the RTPI (or of an equivalent professionally recognised organisation e.g. IPI, RICS-P&D etc.) or in the process of developing relevant experience towards membership of the RTPI, IPI RICS (P&D) etc.

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