Job Description
Place – Sustainable Development
Student/ Trainee Planners: Undergraduate Placement Year - fixed term until 30/06/2026
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 so you would get a range of experience and be an integral member our Planning service.
Within Development Management, you would have your own application caseload and deal with a variety of applications. In Development Planning, you would 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, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
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 these. If successful, 2 references will be required.
We work in a hybrid environment under the Council’s new Working Flexibly guidance, which will see us using our modern open-plan offices in Edinburgh city centre, 5 minutes’ walk from Waverley Rail Station.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure 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 behavioural 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 Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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