Development Management Team Leader (Planning)

Our client is looking for a Development Management Team Leader for Planning

About the Role:
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Team Leader to provide temporary cover within a Development Management team. The role will focus primarily on operational leadership, ensuring the effective delivery of planning services and maintaining service standards during a period of temporary absence.
The successful candidate will support the management of planning applications, oversee workload allocation, review and sign off work, and respond to changes in legislation, policy, and process.
Key Responsibilities

Lead the operational delivery of planning services

Allocate and monitor workloads across the team

Review, manage, and sign off planning applications and reports

Oversee complex and strategic planning casework

Support service delivery and performance objectives

Respond to process, policy, and legislative changes affecting planning functions

Provide technical guidance and support to planning officers
The role has a reduced people-management requirement and is focused primarily on operational oversight rather than formal staff management activities such as appraisals and regular one-to-one meetings.
Candidate Requirements:

Significant experience within Development Management or a similar planning environmen
Proven experience managing and determining major residential and commercial planning applications
Strong technical planning knowledge with the ability to review and sign off work to a high standard
Experience providing operational oversight and leadership within a planning team
Excellent organisational, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills
Qualifications

Professional planning qualifications and/or professional membership are desirable
Extensive relevant experience within a local authority planning environment will be considered equally important and may substitute for formal qualifications where appropriate
Caseload

Management of a portfolio of approximately 15–20 planning cases
Caseload will primarily consist of strategic, complex, or major applications
Flexibility may be available depending on experience and capacity
Working Arrangements

Hybrid working arrangement available
Some office attendance will be required for meetings and collaboration
Site visits will form part of the role
Flexible arrangements can be considered for candidates based outside the immediate area, subject to business requirements
Contract Details

Fixed-term cover position
Expected duration until approximately March of the following year, subject to service requirements and return of the substantive post-holder.
Suitable candidates will be considered regardless of geographic location, provided they can meet the requirements of the hybrid working arrangement.

They are needing is someone with a strong background in local authority work, range of complex majors with a Development Management focus, and some degree of managerial experience that theycan utilise