Senior Planning Officer

Job Description

Provide professional planning support through the provision of expert advice and guidance to colleagues and management across the Service on a range of complex and diverse large scale planning applications, development proposals and environmental assessment activities including the provision of general planning activities delivered by Development Management Services in order to assist with the promotion, delivery and integration of the Council’s key objectives; specifically in relation to the Community Plan, Shared Commitments, Single Outcome Agreement and Best Value.

Requirements

We follow the national guidance in relation to pre-employment checks namely “Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment”. With regards to requests for references and in line with this guidance, during your application process you should provide details of a minimum of two appropriate and relevant references, one of which should be from your current or most recent employer. It is also a requirement that the reference from your current or most recent employer is from an appropriate senior manager and it is not a reference from a former peer operating at the same level.

Responsibilities

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The Individual

This is a permanent full time post. The Admin Base for this post is The Opera House, 8 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock.

Normal office hours are Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm & Friday 9am - 4pm

Annual salary £42,843 - £45,445

The workstyle for this post is 'Mobile' - 20-49% of time is office based. Able to work at home, or another location, or travel directly from home to other locations and client visits out in the field.