Job Description
Place: Sustainable Development
Position: Student/ Trainee Planners: Undergraduate Placement Year - fixed term until 30/06/2026
Location: Waverley Court
Salary: £28,046 - £32,010
Hours: 36 per week
We're looking for two student/trainee planners to join our Planning service for their placement year as part of their undergraduate course. This post is not for those who have already graduated.
The placement will involve working in both Development Management and Development Planning, providing a range of experience as an integral member of our Planning service.
Within Development Management, you will have your own application caseload and deal with a variety of applications. In Development Planning, you will be involved in preparing the next local development plan: City Plan 2040.
You will be fully trained and supported. We are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, recognizing the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to us as an organization.
Our Council priorities are to end poverty by 2030, become a net zero city, and enhance wellbeing and equalities for all. Our City Plan 2030 project sets out challenging aims on quality of place, resilience to climate change, 20-minute neighbourhoods, net zero development, and more. We are Scotland's busiest planning authority, handling over 3,000 applications a year in a city with internationally valued built and natural heritage.
The interview will be competency-based, and we will be looking for examples to demonstrate your skills. If successful, two references will be required.
We work in a hybrid environment under the Council's new Working Flexibly guidance, using our modern open-plan offices in Edinburgh city centre, just 5 minutes' walk from Waverley Rail Station.
As part of our goal to improve our organizational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to ensure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioral and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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