Principal Town Planning Consultant

April 7

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Capita is a company focused on providing services and solutions that enhance user experience and compliance related to internet usage. They emphasize the importance of cookies, managing online privacy, and ensuring users are informed about how their data is used on websites. Through their tools and policies, Capita aims to support organizations in understanding internet user behavior while adhering to legal standards, such as the EU cookie law.

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

📋 Compliance

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Seed Round on 2018-01

📋 Description

• Provide consistently high quality professional advice on planning matters to clients, members of the public, Councillors and others as necessary • Negotiate with applicants and a wide range of stakeholders in order to obtain high quality outcomes within given time constraints set out in our contractual arrangements with clients • Provide concise, accurate, justified and timely reports and recommendations on major planning applications and pre-application discussions applying current legislation and policy changes as appropriate • Keep up to date with current and emerging policy development at a local, regional and national level so that clients are in a strong position to benefit from existing policies and potential changes • Support your peers and mentor more junior staff to ensure project and team targets are met and knowledge and expertise is shared whilst assisting to secure new and repeat work in the way you deliver projects • Be 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute • 7-10 years or more relevant experience, including acting as an expert witness at Planning Inquiries • High level of ability to prioritise and manage a workload whilst working flexibly to meet both the commercial and contractual needs of the business • Demonstrable experience of working as a senior/principal planning officer or consultant in the public/private sector • A high level of knowledge and understanding and application of current and emerging planning legislation • Being ambitious to enhance the reputation of the Development Management service for innovation, quality and timeliness of delivery

🏖️ Benefits

• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave • Company matched pension • Life assurance • A cycle2work scheme • 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave • Paternity pay of two weeks • Plenty more voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology • The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice • 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