Senior Town Planner & Development & Policy Lead

Vivid Resourcing Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Vivid Resourcing Ltd in England is seeking an RTPI-qualified town planner with at least two years' experience across private and public sectors to join our planning team. You will handle development plan, policy, and development management work, prepare planning statements, and contribute to client relationship building.

You will engage in site appraisals, pre-application coordination, and attend committee speaking sessions, while mentoring junior staff and developing new business opportunities

Qualifications

• RTPI qualified planning professional with a minimum 2 years' experience across private and public sectors.
• Ambitious and confident with a drive to build client base.
• Demonstrates increasing professional competence and delivers high-quality work.
• Produces clear, well-researched, structured reports and statements.
• Able to exercise independent professional judgement.
• Sets stretching targets and seeks to optimise personal performance.
• Displays strong analytical and communication skills with clients and colleagues.
• Manages resources effectively and functions as a project manager.
• Motivates, coaches and supports others, providing feedback to senior colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and submit planning applications and supporting documents (Planning Statements, Design & Access Statements).
• Prepare policy representations.
• Give oral evidence at appeals and examinations.
• Understand planning law, relevant judgments and national policy.
• Conduct site visits and appraisals; attend committee meetings to speak.
• Develop client relationships and manage project teams.
• Mentor junior staff to ensure reports are correct.
• Prepare and attend public exhibitions and host exhibitions.
• Draft Statements of Community Involvement.
• Carry out administration and draft fee proposals with Accounts Manager.

Skills

RTPI qualified town planner

2 years' experience

ambitious and confident

professional competence

clear, well researched work

independent professional judgement

target setting & personal performance

analytical & communication skills

project management

mentoring juniors

proactive communication

team collaboration

commercial awareness

Job description

Working alongside our existing team, you will be tasked with working on private, public and

community Clients. This team are skilled in working across a wide variety of sectors and on projects

that are small through to large scale. The focus of this role will see you engaging in a range of

development plan, policy, and development management work. This will include planning appraisals,

co-ordinating pre-application and planning applications, preparing local plan representations, site

promotion and appeals. You will be encouraged to attend networking events and further build your

own Client base through networking.

Role Requirements

▪ RTPI qualified town planner, with a minimum 2 years' experience across both the private and

public sectors.

▪ Ambitious and confident personality, ready to further build your own Client base.

• demonstrate a good and improving level of professional competence, achieving

a consistently high standard of delivery.

• produce clear, well researched and structured work

• be able to exercise independent professional judgement

• have the ability, and drive, to set stretching targets and seek to optimise

personal performance

• display clear concise analytical and communication skills with both Clients and

colleagues alike, commanding respect

• can determine and manage resources, demonstrating effectiveness as a project

manager

• motivate, coach, and support others to achieve. Proactively providing feedback

to senior colleagues

• maintain pro-active communication, internally and with Clients, and third

parties

• value and use the expertise of others

• understand the commercial realities of the business and the marketplace

• identify opportunities for profit

Duties

• Preparing and submitting planning applications and supporting documents (writing of Planning

Statements, Design & Access Statements)

• Preparing of Policy representations

• Giving oral evidence at Appeals and Examinations

• A thorough understanding of planning law, relevant court judgements and national planning policy

• Undertake site visits and site appraisals

• Attendance at committee meetings to include speaking

• Developing client relationships both new and existing

• Managing and co‐ordinating project teams

• Mentoring junior members of staff to ensure all reports are correct prior to their submission

• Preparation and Attendance at Public Exhibitions, preparing exhibition material and hosting

• Write Statements of Community Involvement Documents

• Undertake their own administration work as necessary

• Draft fee proposals in liaison with the Accounts Manager

Notes: The list of duties provided is not exhaustive.

EXPERTISE

Professional competence

• Good and improving level of professional competence

• Stay abreast of new developments in the profession

• Achieve a consistently excellent standard of delivery

• Display commitment and contribute to CPD activities

Performance focus

• Sets stretching targets for self

• Seeks to optimise personal performance

• Is prepared to move out of comfort zone

• Looks for business development opportunities

OWNERSHIP

• Manages own workload and carries out wide range of work

• Determines and manages resources

• Is an effective project manager

• Leads effectively to ensure priorities aremet

Developing Others

• Motivates others to achieve

• Coaches and supports others to improveperformance

• Proactively provides feedback to senior colleagues

INTEGRITY

Quality focus

• Produces clear well researched and structuredwork

• Looks for opportunities to improvequality

• Able to exercise independent professionaljudgement

Communication

• Display clear and concise analytical and communicationskills

• Use a range of communication channels to achieve results

TEAMWORK

Teamworking

• Builds and maintains constructive working relationships with team and others

• Values and uses expertise of others

Relationship building

• Relates well to clients andcolleagues

COMMERCIALITY

Client focus

• Relates well to clients and commands theirrespect

• Maintains proactive communication withclients

• Clearly delivers against clientrequirements

Commercial focus

• Understands the commercial realities of the business and the marketplace