Graduate Planner
Ref: 381046
Salary: £29,525
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Location: York
Closing date: Sunday 19 January 2025.
Job summary
We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Do you hold a fully accredited RTPI degree or are soon to graduate?
Are you interested in understanding how Active Travel England (ATE) actively participates in the planning system?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
This is a phenomenal opportunity as the role will shape your career and provide you with the skills, experience and certifications to help you progress within this profession.
Would you like to find out more about the role, and what it’s like to work at ATE? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Thursday 9th January at 1pm.
Please click here to book on.
Job description
Active travel is proven to make happier, healthier communities. By reducing health inequalities, helping make safer neighbourhoods, reducing the cost of living and tackling the climate crises, active travel improves quality of life. There has never been a more exciting time to be working in active travel and ATE is at the forefront of this high-profile agenda. Since June 2023 ATE has been actively participating in the planning system with over 2,400 planning consultations responded to within statutory timescales.
We are looking for two Graduate Planners to join our small and dynamic planning team who are enthusiastic to be a part of ATE as it transitions from a new government agency to one that seeks to deliver meaningful change and better outcomes in new developments. In this regard and recognising that this will be a first step into a town planning role, we will offer a supportive and collaborative work environment, mentorship and guidance from experienced planners, and opportunities to develop your career in both a planning casework and policy environment.
Where successful candidates graduate with a fully accredited RTPI degree (or already hold this qualification), become either a ‘Chartered Member’ of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) or ‘Member’ of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (MCIHT), and continually score a minimum rating of ‘Achieving’ in quarterly performance reviews up until this point, they will progress to the Higher Executive Officer grade (current annual salary of £34,233 per annum) and job title of Planning Manager.
Responsibilities
Include, but not limited to:
* Supporting senior planners in reviewing key aspects of development proposals, with progression towards formulating recommendations on planning applications for which ATE is a consultee.
* Contributing to the drafting of internal advice notes to facilitate consistent ways of working and embed good practice.
* Assisting the planning policy team in monitoring ATE’s influence in the planning system and developing a suite of guidance documents to support the delivery of infrastructure to current best practice.
* Inputting as appropriate into ATE’s learning and development offer for local authorities and the development industry.
* Attending meetings with a wide mix of stakeholders and interested parties as required.
Additional information
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact: Mark Knighting, mark.knighting@activetravelengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team: dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk