Planning Policy Officer - Lewes and Eastbourne (Fully Remote Position)

Salary: £13.65 an Hour

Full-Time (37 hours)

Contract: Two Months – Possibly beyond

Job Purpose:

Assist in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of place-shaping policy for the councils.
Incorporating expertise from a range of professional disciplines and complies with statutory and corporate requirements and policy.

Key Tasks:

Work as part of the Planning Policy team to delivery a spatial planning service, through provision of advice, guidance, interpretation and evaluation, so that it meets statutory requirements and legislation and seeks to delivery corporate priorities by preparing and delivering the Development plan and associated documents.

Core Accountabilities:

• 2Undertake research and evidence-based studies that are required in order to inform development plan policies and other place-shaping policies and strategies.   Where necessary and where opportunities arise, undertake such work in partnership/jointly with other local authorities.
• Assist in the research and delivery of specific policy projects, to inform the preparation of an up to date Development Plan and related documents.
• Arrange, establish and assist with stakeholder engagement and public consultation exercises that are undertaken as part of policy and strategy formulation.
• Work alongside town and parish councils to ensure that where appropriate, Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessments are embedded into the plan making process from the start.
• Accurately maintain information system to collate data required for the councils’ Monitoring Report, ongoing monitoring of housing and employment land supply and the monitoring required to review the effectiveness of development plan policies.
• Maintain the content of the relevant pages of the councils’ websites relating to Planning Policy and other strategy and policy matters.
• Deal with and respond to day-to-day policy enquiries received by the Planning Policy team.
• Prepare reports relating to the job purpose for Cabinet, council committees and other internal and external meetings.
• Undertake such other duties as appropriate to the grade and designation of the post and as required by the Head of Planning.
• Collaboratively working to ensure Development Plan documents are up to date and respond to national/local/regional legislation/context to include

Corporate Accountabilities:

• To promote equality of opportunity in service delivery in line with strategic commitment and corporate policies.
• To Promote a culture that is supportive of the Council’s purpose, aims and values, and to take all reasonable steps to maintain good employee relations.
• Staff are encouraged to participate fully in promoting a safety culture to protect the safety and health of themselves, colleagues and other people affected by the Council’s activities.
• To understand and apply the council’s Data Protection and Data Quality policy and procedures.
• Any other duties commensurate with the nature of the post.

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

To discuss this vacancy or other vacancies in your area please contact Liam Heddle on liamh@4recruitmentservices.com