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Come and join us for the perfect opportunity for you to embark in your career as a Planner.
About us
Leicester is an exciting and enjoyable place to live and work. It has a rich history and a wonderful built and natural environment. It is a rapidly growing economy in a strategic position in the country.
We plan to help shape the city over the short, medium, and longer, balancing the need for new homes and jobs against the need to protect the heritage and green environment. We are embarking on a new phase of regeneration and placemaking as we progress with our new Local Plan.
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for enthusiastic Graduates, to be a part of the Council’s drive to provide work experience and develop career paths in Planning. Working under the guidance of Planners and Senior Planners, you’ll undertake town planning work specialising in specific areas in accordance with statutory functions, legislation, and guidelines and within overall local objectives and policy.
Based at City Hall, with the option to work flexibly, you’ll be required to on occasions work across the city to attend meetings with key stakeholders, customers, and clients, or to attend court. This is a full time, fixed term post for 12 months initially, working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. There will an opportunity to extend the 12-month fixed contract by a further 11 months subject to further assessment and progression of pay.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll assist with both minor and major developments and other planning work in either the Development Management and Enforcement Team, who deal with applications, contraventions and correspondence, or the Policy Team who manage the new Local Plan. You’ll undertake site inspections, surveys, research, negotiations, and engage in public participation. You’ll draft reports which assess the material planning considerations relevant to individual proposals as well as deal effectively with queries from members of the public regarding planning, the application process, and your own case work.
What you’ll need
Having graduated within the last 2 years, or due to graduate this summer with a Degree or Diploma in Town Planning or Urban Design that is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institution, you’ll have a good understanding of planning objectives and principles applicable to development management. Using excellent written and verbal communication skills, you’ll process applications, carry out publicity and consultations, negotiate with applicants, write reports and making recommendations. With the ability to work effectively on your own initiative and as part of a team, you’ll be able to deal with challenging individuals and groups in a calm, diplomatic, professional manner.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.
Assessment/Interviews will take place on week commencing 22nd April 2024.
