Planning Regeneration Officer

WMJobs; Oldbury; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council is recruiting a Planning Regeneration Officer on a fixed-term 2-year contract to work on challenging major projects within our £3bn Regeneration Pipeline.

You will operate within the Planning Regeneration Team, collaborating with internal and external partners to deliver outcomes, identify funding sources, prepare development briefs, and support viability studies and masterplans for regeneration schemes.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education in Planning/Regeneration or related field.
• Working towards RTPI membership is desirable.
• Knowledge of national, regional and local regeneration strategies and local area context.

Responsibilities

• Support or lead regeneration schemes delivering economic, social and environmental benefits for Sandwell communities.
• Contribute to creating high-quality places meeting community needs.
• Contribute to masterplans and strategies enabling comprehensive regeneration.
• Identify funding sources and prepare funding applications, including collating supporting information.

Skills

Regeneration knowledge

Project management

Strategic planning

Education

Degree in Planning/Regeneration

RTPI membership (student/licentiate/full)

Job description

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council,

This post is fixed term for two years

We are looking to recruit a Planning Regeneration Officer

This post provides the opportunity of working on challenging, but exciting major projects contained within our £3bn Regeneration Pipeline.

You will be working within the Planning Regeneration Team but the multi-disciplinary nature of the regeneration projects will involve working with both internal and external partners to achieve the necessary outcomes.

The role will also require identifying funding sources to drive regeneration projects forward within the borough, preparing development briefs and identifying the necessary supporting studies and assessments necessary to deliver major projects.

Responsibilities

• Support or lead the development of regeneration schemes which deliver economic, social and environmental benefits for the communities of Sandwell.
• Contributing towards the creation of high quality places which meet the needs of Sandwell’s communities
• Contribute towards the production of masterplans and strategies to enable comprehensive regeneration
• Identify and lead the necessary arrangements for viability studies, market assessments, land/property ownership, and valuations to be undertaken to determine scheme viability and development options Identify funding sources and prepare funding applications to enable sites or deliver regeneration schemes, including the collation of relevant supporting information

Requirements

• Educated to Degree Level, preferably in a subject consistent with Planning and/or Regeneration
• Working towards either student, licentiate or full membership of the RTPI.
• Chartered Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute is preferable. (RTPI).
• Knowledge of key national, regional and local strategies which are key drivers for regeneration, including emerging strategies and knowledge of the local area in the context of Regeneration, including the key challenges and opportunities
• Experience of Working within a complex and challenging project environment
• Knowledge of basic Project Management principles.

If you wish to apply as Care Leaver or a Disability Confident candidate, please make sure to state this when submitting your CV.

Closing date: 9th October 2026