We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Planning Casework Manager to join the Transport Infrastructure Planning Unit (TIPU). Do you have experience of planning? Do you want to play a crucial role in delivering the new transport infrastructure the country needs? Are you a team player? Do you have attention to detail? Are you looking for an excellent opportunity to boost your existing skill set and learn more about the planning process? Then this is the role for you in a friendly and supportive team. TIPU provides advice to Ministers on whether to approve applications to build infrastructure, submitted under various pieces of legislation most notably: Planning Act 2008 on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP), such as development of strategic roads, aviation and major harbour projects; This exciting, interesting role provides an opportunity to work on NSIPs and build on your skills and knowledge of the planning world. As one of our Senior Planning Case Officers, you will: Have some knowledge of planning casework, policy and or legislation. Be comfortable analysing lengthy, technical reports, interpreting legislation and drafting detailed decision letters. Have strong organisational skills to balance multiple projects/areas of work simultaneously to ensure they remain on track. Planning ahead to deliver your work effectively, balancing a range of sometimes complicated priorities to ensure delivery to multiple tight statutory timescales. Be able to communicate and present an insightful background and reasoning behind a decision or recommendation. Have the ability to write in a clear and concise way, summarising technical information in a non-technical way. Convey that information so that it is understandable to a diverse audience Joining our department comes with many benefits, including: Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance. Read more in the Benefits section below! Find out more about what it's like working at Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Planning Casework Manager to join the Transport Infrastructure Planning Unit (TIPU). TIPU provides advice to Ministers on a range of planning applications including for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIPs) submitted under the Planning Act 2008 such as development of strategic roads, aviation and major harbour projects. These Applications grant powers critical to the delivery of such projects that are central to the Government's policies for economic growth. The post holder will work in a friendly team responsible for ensuring that a robust and timely advice is provided to Ministers on such applications. This involves assessing the merits of projects against planning, transport and environmental policies and legislation, preparing formal, legally robust decision letters and making recommendations to Ministers and maintaining the propriety of the decision-making process. Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to: Assess the merits of applications for Development Consent Orders made under the Planning Act 2008 seeking consent for projects including strategic roads, aviation and major harbour projects. Identify issues from often lengthy recommendation reports and lead on resolving these with guidance from managers and lawyers.Assess applications against planning, transport and environmental policies and legislation.Confidently draft well-argued and legally robust decisions and advice to ministers to strict statutory deadlines.Work closely with our environmental manager and lawyers to ensure advice to minsters and final decision documents are robust managing their input to ensure statutory deadlines are met.Respond to briefing requests, correspondence, FOIs and press queries relating to your cases. For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.