Area Team Manager in Teignbridge.
Role Details
Job Title: Area Team Manager
Location: Teignbridge
Contract Type: Permanent
Starting Salary: £53,460 – £56,533 (depending on experience)
Working Pattern: Monday–Friday, 37 hours per week
Hybrid Working: Approximately 50% office-based (not fully remote)
Driving: Must have access to their own vehicle.
Leading and managing a team
Town and Country Planning, including aspects such as Local Plan preparation
Purpose of the Role
To provide effective management and lead a team(s) of officers within the
Development management service including responsibility for staff performance
management.
To act as case officer for corporately important major projects to drive the
Development Management function within the Council.
To deputise for the Head of Development Management and cover for the Planning
Support Manager as required.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Team management including workload allocation and managing performance to
ensure individual and teams work effectively and local and service performance
indicators are met.
• Responsible to ensure all advice, recommendations and decisions (both as an
individual and of team) comply with all relevant regulations and legislation, and
appropriately consider representations from individuals and groups.
• Take an active role as part of the Development Management service
management team including participating/contributing to long term strategic
decisions and policy making.
• Responding to media enquiries in accordance with advice and support from the
Comms team and as agreed with Head of Service.
• Acting as Safeguarding ambassador
• Provide definitive expert development management advice on complex technical
planning, design, development viability, environmental, conservation and other
planning-related matters.
• Undertaking case officer role and making recommendations on major and
corporately important application proposals, including: giving pre-application
advice; examining and evaluating application proposals; carrying out appropriate
consultations; negotiating improvements; considering relevant legislation, local
and national policy implications; considering responses and objections in relation
to S106 and CIL; making recommendations and reporting to the appropriate
Committee of the Council; and, to attend Parish/Town Councils and public
meetings as required.
• Assist the Head of Dev Management in the preparation of the Planning
Committee agenda.
• Attend Planning Committee to present reports, provide advice and act as primary
source of planning advice in Head of Development Management’s absence.
• Provide specialist advice and act as expert witness at planning appeals, hearings
and Public Inquiries, including in relation to Judicial Review, informal and public
enquiries and compulsory purchase matters.
• Making and signing decisions in accordance with the Delegation Scheme for
Determining Planning Applications and related Planning Matters (including listed
building applications; implications for CIL, enforcement and habitat regulations
and other relevant permission matters)
• Working closely with Members, other Services and external agencies to give
advice and information