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Major Development Team Leader

Employer
Macdonald & Company
Location
Midlands
Salary
£50 per hour Umbrella Co
Closing date
7 Apr 2019

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Contract Type
Contract
Hours
Full Time
Discipline
Development Control, Planning
Function
Team Leader, Manager
Sector
Local Authority

Job Details

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a Major Development Team Leader to join a vibrant local authority based in the Midlands, for an initial period of 6 months with the view to an extension.

This role is a great chance for an experienced Team Leader to manage a caseload of complex and large scale major applications as part of wider regeneration projects. For example, this will include the delivery of new housing schemes, urban extensions, public realm and park improvement schemes and visitor attractions creating approximately 2,000 new jobs.

 

Duties Include:

  • Manage a small team of 2 Principal Planners
  • Allocate planning applications amongst the team
  • Monitor performance of the team, recruitment and budgets
  • Deal with complex regeneration and planning matters
  • Assist with the delivery of strategic growth by progressing the regeneration projects through the planning assistant
  • Briefing elected members
  • Representing Council at Committee and public hearings when required
  • Compose planning appeal advice
  • Execute meetings with leading developers and external consultants
  • Conduct creative solutions

 

Successful candidates will have a full, clean UK driver’s licence, excellent communication and reporting skills, a degree in Town & Country planning or in an affiliated subject, with relevant experience managing large scale projects, partnership working, leadership and project management as a Development Control Officer at a UK practical planning authority.

If you would like to be put forward for this role, please contact Talissa Mbewe at Macdonald & Company on either 020 7318 5877 or email tmbewe@macdonaldandcompany.com

Company

Macdonald & Company is the leading professional recruitment consultancy for the real estate, built environment, energy and environmental sectors. Established in 1994 and headquartered in the UK, we apply local knowledge with true global connection through our offices in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa.

Our specialist teams act for every class  of organisation owning, occupying, financing or advising on property, construction and engineering – developers, investors, institutions, funds, banks, consultancies and contractors. We are the preferred recruitment partner of RICS - the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 7629 7220
Location
50 Great Marlborough Street
London
London
W1F 7JS
United Kingdom

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