Planning Obligations Coordinator

We are currently working with a Local Authority in the South West who are looking to recruit a Planning Obligations Coordinator to sit within the Inclusive Economy & Sustainability team.

You will provide senior level scrutiny and accountability to the monitoring, collection and spend of developer obligations and contributions.

Job: Planning Obligations Coordinator

Duration: Minimum 6 months

Rate: £407/day via Umbrella Company, Inside IR35

Site presence: Hybrid

Purpose

• Ensuring the council’s planning functions are positioned in a customer focused and solutions led way creating the right conditions for accelerating high-quality development and supporting sustainable growth
• To build trust and confidence with external parish partners ensuring local infrastructure needs are recognised
• The role will contribute to wider policy creation ensuring developer contributions and
  obligations are received in a flexible way to promote the widest possible application of these resources to meet the current and emerging needs of our residents
• Support key regeneration projects, transform the town centre and support the council’s emerging new ways of localities working

Key Accountabilities

• You will strive to position planning services as the growth engine to unlock activity that contributes to the local economy through the delivery of new housing and strategically important economic development initiatives, including liaison with external agencies
• To manage, maintain, and develop systems for the administration, recording, collection, spending, monitoring, and reporting of CIL revenue and S106 financial and non-financial obligations
• To administer the Council’s S106 policy, including validation and verification of forms; securing invoicing and payment of planning obligations; monitoring of development to ensure it accords with agreed liability; monitoring of spend and enforcement where necessary
• Preparation of monthly reports on monies raised and spend profiles
• Work closely with the Planning Policy Team to ensure alignment of infrastructure planning with planning policy documents
• To supervise junior planning officers, which will entail undertaking appraisals and regular 121s

Knowledge and experience

•  Experience of senior level policy creation to achieve successful outcomes within a Local
  Authority environment
•  A thorough knowledge of UK planning legislation, policy and guidance with an ability to apply this practically and progressively to deliver tangible planning gains
•  ICT and financial literate to include use of MS Office applications and finance software packages
• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification with relevant post graduate experience
  (Postgraduate MA or Diploma in Town Planning is desirable but not essential)
• Thorough developing, reviewing and implementing Local Plans

At Venn Group, we endeavour to respond to all applications. However, due to the volume of applications we receive, if you have not heard from us within 48 hours please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Kind regards,

Olivia