Senior Planning Officer (Enforcement CIL & S106 Team)

Senior Planning Officer (Enforcement CIL & S106 Team)

Reference number: SC06635

Location: London

Schedule: Full-Time

Salary Range: £47,043 - £54,135

Contract Type: Permanent

About Southwark:

We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.  Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

The role

Senior Planning Enforcement Officer, Development Management.

Southwark is a vibrant diverse borough, with many contrasts. Enforcing planning control will present you with a varied caseload of contrasting development potentially on very big construction projects to householder development.

Southwark Council is an ambitious central London authority, which is home to some of the largest and most exciting developments in the country. The Planning and Growth Division recruiting an experienced officer to deal with major planning applications in the busy Development Management Unit. There is the prospect of challenging but highly rewarding work for the successful candidate.

You will work with colleagues across the Council to provide a joined-up system of planning control.

You will demonstrate the skills necessary to address the challenges such a caseload presents, as well as demonstrating that you can progress that caseload in good time so as to deliver good customer service and improve the environment of the Borough. You will advise elected members and senior officers and use your sound judgement to make reasoned and considered recommendations on complex matters, and to present cases before Planning Inspectors and the Courts.

In return, we offer the opportunity for you to grow as a leader with a well-respected leadership development programme; a modern work environment in attractive offices at London Bridge, and the chance to be involved in an exciting range of projects which have the power to transform our part of London.

About you:

We are looking for an experienced enforcement planner to join busy a Development Management team, taking a leading role in managing a varied caseload and developing the team.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Recruitment timetable

• Closing date: 7 July 2024.
• Interview: W/C 15 July 2024.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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