Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils
Salary: £31,537 - £36,363 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: Full Time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent This role is open to full time, part time, and job share applications, all of which will be assessed equally. Join our team We are looking for a Planning Policy Data and Spatial Technician to join our Strategic Planning team. If you share our values and our motivation to make a difference for our residents, clients, and communities, we would love to hear from you. About the role Would you like the opportunity to work with data and mapping to help shape the future of places over the next 20 years? You will be joining our Strategic Planning team who are responsible for developing the Councils’ Local Development Plan policies and monitoring their implementation. The team also support Neighbourhood Planning groups develop their Neighbourhood Development Plans. We are looking for a proactive and well organised team player to be able to expertly lead and manage data entry, understanding the data in order to be able to retrieve, manipulate and report on findings to support the Councils’ Joint Local Plan, associated evidence documents and annual monitoring. The data held will also be presented in innovative ways to a variety of audiences, and high-quality GIS mapping skills will be required. Information including new development build progress, Local Plan settlement boundaries and site boundaries for proposed land-use allocations will need to be kept up to date, as well as, maintaining constraint layers, and policies maps showing visually how the policies will be implemented. About you A GIS qualification or extensive GIS experience is essential. You should be able to demonstrate how you have used creative skills to design and prepare maps for a variety of different purposes to convey complex information clearly. This is an opportunity to build on your experience in data handling, producing public friendly documents and applying processes to be able to understand situations and develop solutions to issues that arise, using your own initiative with accuracy. Experience of producing high-quality reports for internal and external use, accurately analysing, interpreting and collating evidence.
Knowledge of Planning, handling planning datasets and plan making public consultation is desirable.
Excellent IT skills and extensive experience with Microsoft products, you will be used to using a variety of software to input, query and extract data.
Now is an exciting time as we look to update and develop the software, we use with innovative packages to present information in different ways.
At Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils we are passionate about building communities that people want to live, work, visit and invest in.
We serve around 200,000 residents across our two districts and are well known for our collaboration and partnership working across public, private and voluntary sectors.
60 conservation areas
~ two National Landscapes
~ We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
Competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.
Wellbeing Support and Employee Assistance Programs.
Private Health Care Options.
Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
Flexible and hybrid working arrangements (Business needs permitting).
Great learning and development opportunities.
We work in a hybrid way, with a mix of office, home, and remote based working (Business need permitting). Our hybrid working arrangements support flexibility and collaboration, helping our teams to thrive.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, providing opportunity and ambition for all, supporting and enabling our people to deliver the best possible services for our residents.
If you wish to discuss the Hybrid working approach for this role, or for an informal discussion, please contact Caileigh Gorzelak by emailing or calling or Robert Hobbs by emailing or calling.
This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts.