Assistant Planning Officer

Job Description

Based at Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar.

Angus is a great place to live, work and visit, with stunning coastal and mountain landscapes, that contain historic towns, conservation areas, and many listed buildings.

This post offers opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to begin or progress a career in planning by gaining valuable experience working within a high-performing, friendly, and supportive team that has a track record of nurturing and developing talent. It provides a great opportunity to learn and develop your skills, while playing a key role in place-making and shaping the future environment of Angus.

This is a career grade post that provides opportunity to enter the planning profession, someone part way through their study or a recent graduate.  Where appropriate, we may be able to support the successful candidate to undertake study towards a degree in planning.   

The position offers a competitive salary and all the benefits of working for a public sector organisation, including flexitime and entry to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Angus Council is committed to working flexibly and equipment will be provided to support working from home.

For a confidential chat about the post, please contact Alan Hunter, Manager – development standards by email: huntera@angus.gov.uk

Please note interviews will be held week commencing week commencing 24 April 2023.

Requirements

Please refer to job outline, person specification and information sheet for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

Please refer to the "applicant guidance" documentwhen completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" documentfor more information about working for Angus Council.

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.