Senior Planning Officer Biodiversity - Waverley Court

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Senior Planning Officer - Biodiversity
Waverley Court

Salary: £40,275 - £47,654 per year
Hours: 36 per week

Our Council priorities are to end poverty by 2030, become a net zero city, and enhance wellbeing and equalities for all. Our City Plan 2030 project sets out challenging aims on quality of place, resilience to climate change, 20-minute neighbourhoods, net zero development and more. We are Scotland's busiest planning authority, handling over 3,000 applications a year.

Our Planning service is continuing with our major change programme to help make it fit for the future and be fully able to support the significant change Edinburgh faces in the years ahead. We are developing new ways of working and want to enhance our relationship with our customers and stakeholders.

We've ambitious plans to achieve Edinburgh's vision of a fair, welcoming, pioneering and thriving city. Our Council priorities are:

• to end poverty by 2030
• become a net zero city by 2030
• enhance wellbeing and equalities for all

We are looking to recruit a Senior Planning Officer who is committed to delivering an efficient, effective and customer-focused Planning service and delivering great places. You will be responsible for inputting into a varied and challenging range and volume of planning cases, contributing to change and improvement, and for supporting the professional development of yourself and your colleagues.

It will have a specific Biodiversity focus in both the development planning and management processes, providing the biodiversity response in the context of NPF4. The role will also involve policy and project work, as well as a supervisor role for the Edinburgh Biodiveristy Partnership.

The Council provides a wide and far reaching variety of services making us unique as an employer, and our varied rewards cater to the needs and wants of our employees. At our core are our values which describe the behaviours that all Council employees are expected to demonstrate in the workplace:

• honest and transparent
• forward thinking
• work together
• put customers first

If you are interested, you should bring a strong sense of customer service, excellent communication skills, an understanding of quality assurance and an appetite for project delivery and continuous improvement.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.  

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