What's involved with this role: Temporary Planning Officer - DM Reference no: Richmond & Wandsworth 7537-1 Pay Rate: £17.56 per hour PAYE 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 3 months City: TWICKENHAM, LONDON Working In DM Team processing planning applications, pre-application enquiries and appeals. Key Responsibilities: Work on a range of development management case work including, pre-application advice, the processing of planning applications, Certificate of Lawfulness, prior notification and advertisement applications, ensuring that these are effectively and efficiently carried out to identifiable deadlines in a manner that is consistent with planning policy and is successful in meeting corporate targets and objectives. Assess, negotiate and set out clear and robust recommendations in an accurate, well written officer report based on relevant planning policies and other material considerations. Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and to take a proactive approach to relevant changes in legislation. Ensure that the electronic copy of the planning application, pre-application advice and correspondence is the master copy and that all electronic and paper copies of your own case work are up-to-date before any decision is made. Provide advice and guidance in response to planning best practice, procedure or policy within a legal/organisational policy framework. Ensure that service-wide and corporate performance indicators, targets and customer service standards are met for the full range of the workload. Lead on the preparation of evidence for written representation appeals. Initiate and participate in matters relating to compliance and enforcement matters and conflict resolution to ensure high quality innovative outcomes that reflect Council-wide objectives and policies. Ensure that the electronic copy of the planning application, pre-application advice and correspondence is the master copy and that all electronic and paper copies of your own case work and that of the supervised staff is up-to-date before any decision is made. Qualifications: A degree in planning or other appropriate professional qualification and a member of the RTPI or eligible for or working toward full membership. Knowledge: Developing knowledge and understanding of Planning legislation, policy guidance and circulars, practice and case law and the ability to apply that knowledge in negotiating and delivering highly complex and high risk planning applications within agreed timeframes in order to deliver a responsive, high quality service at speed Development Management Service Knowledge and understanding of effective customer relations and customer care practices Understanding of the need to negotiate and deliver planning and other consent applications within agreed timeframes in order to deliver a responsive, high quality service at speed Development Management Service Clear understanding of IT systems generally including Microsoft Office, measuring software and planning database system and document management systems Experience: Relevant experience in local government planning work including preparation of development plan documents or dealing with enforcement complaints or planning applications or equivalent. Skills & Abilities: Articulate in written and oral communication skills with particular reference to report and letter writing, public speaking, presentation skills and communicating with Members, the public, staff and other professionals. Work effectively to meet challenging deadlines and manage competing and changing priorities Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please