Graduate Town Planner 2022

Build better environments as a graduate planner

Join us as a graduate planner and you’ll help to shape the future of places. You’ll be part of a large, friendly team with an outstanding track record in development management, planning policy and consultancy services. This is an unrivalled opportunity to be involved in a wide range of work. We’ll support you to develop yourself including opportunities to become chartered and we’ll give you access to our tailored learning and development programme too. We have five planning hubs across the country; London Borough of Barnet (our joint venture known as Re), Breckland, Manchester, North Tyneside and Belfast and we support flexible, home working.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Processing mainly planning and related applications (householder, change of uses, prior approvals, certificates and discharge of conditions) in a timely manner
• producing robust reports and recommendations to achieve desired and deliverable outcomes
• providing pre application development management and planning policy advice on planning matters to your clients
• provide concise, accurate, justified and timely reports and recommendations on mainly planning and related applications (householder, change of uses, prior approvals, certificates and discharge of conditions) and pre application discussions applying current legislation and policy changes as appropriate
• become involved in service improvements and our business operations to ensure resilience competitive edge, efficiency and effectiveness going forward
• be willing to travel to meet our client requirements. Driving license required.

What We’re Looking For

• a graduate with a relevant qualification
• have or be working towards Student or Licentiate Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
• exceptional communication and presentation skills
• a good understanding of the planning process
• the ability to work with a range of clients
• good IT skills, including experience with database and spreadsheet packages
• a good team player who can work collaboratively.

About Government Services

For more than 30 years Capita has been working across the public and private sectors, solving the complex challenges of our clients, increasing productivity, enhancing their use of technology and data, improving customer and public services and adding value to the UK and local economies.

Capita is committed to the local government sector and is the market leader in the delivery of Planning Resilience Services to Local Authority clients. We have worked with over 100 Local Authority clients nationwide, and have an outstanding track record of providing Development Management & Planning Policy and Consultancy services.

What’s In It For You?

• A competitive basic salary
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice.
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more.
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.
• You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita.

You’ll be joining a network of 55,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

To view our Covid-19 and process adjustments information, please visit the Capita Careers site.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.