Senior Planning Officer - Research and Information

Job Description

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Senior Planner Officer - Research and Information Officer
Waverley Court

Salary: £44,257 - £52,373
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council is looking to recruit a specialist senior planning post whose role is to lead on research, information and data analysis to support the Development Planning team and the wider Planning and Building Standards service.

The Development Planning team is responsible for preparing our next local development plan: City Plan 2040 and the successful candidate would be integral in helping to deliver the plan. We are looking for someone who is motivated, skilled and works well within a team environment.

Candidates should have skills and experience in MS Excel, MS Access, ARCmap or other GIS software and have a general knowledge of national statistics and where to obtain them. The key role of the post would be to assess and support on the supply and delivery of new homes, monitor and analyse development activity across the city; provide a research and statistical analysis service and report and disseminate information.

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.

If successful, 2 references will be required. We work in a hybrid environment under the Council’s new Working Flexibly guidance We are based in the Council’s 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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