Development Management Officer, Specialist and Strategic

at  Cambridgeshire County Council

About the role
The Development Management Officer, Specialist and Strategic post is an opportunity to be involved in the determination of planning applications for mineral and waste development, which provide the materials for growth, and help deliver sustainable waste management, some of which will require an Environmental Impact Assessment.
Alongside this you will also handle applications for the County Council’s own development, which includes infrastructure in new major development areas and settlements and projects delivered by the Greater Cambridge Partnership. There will also be the opportunity to contribute to the Council’s formal responses to proposals for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and provide advice from a planning perspective.
The role will require you to have significant experience of handling complex development management at a senior level, and you will have excellent communication, time management and negotiation skills as well a sound background in report writing and presentations, including at Planning Committee. You need to be able to successfully liaise with a variety of customers and internal and external stakeholders as you provide professional and technical advice to discharge the Council’s responsibilities with regard to minerals and waste planning applications.
If you would like to discuss this post informally, please telephone Deborah Jeakins on 07468 719657.
What will you be doing?
Determining complex, specialist and strategic planning applications for mineral and waste development and for the County Council’s own development (such as schools, roads and Greenways), as well as the opportunity to contribute to the Council’s formal responses to proposals for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and provide advice from a planning perspective.
About you
The role will require you to have significant experience of handling complex, specialist and strategic development management at a senior level.
You will have excellent communication, time management and negotiation skills as well a sound background in report writing and presentations, including at Planning Committee.
You will able to negotiate and liaise with a variety of customers and internal and external stakeholders and provide professional and technical advice to discharge the County Council’s development management responsibilities.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network ‘IDEAL’ and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Please refer the Job description for details