Graduate Town Planner - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £25,324-
Job grade:

Executive Officer
Contract type:
Fixed Term
Length of employment:
2 years
Business area:
Planning Chief Planner
Type of role:
Planning
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
4Contents

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Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester, NewcastleuponTyne, Nottingham, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

Job description:

These are exciting and challenging roles at the heart of the Government's agenda.

Working across the Planning Directorate divisions which oversee government planning policy, graduates will take forward work to significantly improve the planning system, deliver a new National Planning Policy Framework, reform how we plan for infrastructure and drive digital transformation.

There may also be opportunities to spend time in planning roles in other government departments such as the Department for Transport and the Department for Education.

The roles will involve working with senior officials across Whitehall, as well as engagement with a wide range of external partners including business and local government.

Post holders will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Planning and Housing Directorates as well as closely with legal colleagues, analysts and other government departments.

Person specification:

We are looking for planners who can demonstrate:

Excellent written, presentational, and verbal communication skills.
Good knowledge of the history and development of the town planning system in England and how the planning system in England works.
Good understanding of the key priorities of the Government and how this will impact on the planning system, along with the key government planning policies.
Ability to deliver pieces of work on technical planning matters to short deadlines.
Good political awareness and understanding of central and local government.

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Making Effective Decisions
Developing Self and Others
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Please provide an example of a situation that challenged a specific area of your town planning skills. What did you do to overcome that challenge?

Benefits:

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Technical skills.
We are for everyone

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.
We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.

The assessor won't be reading your answers sequentially.
Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

At sift, we will be assessing
Behaviour 1 (lead behaviour) - Making effective decisions

Behaviour

Developing Self and Others

Behaviour - Delivering at pace

Technical

Please provide an example of a situation that challenged a specific area of your town planning skills. What did you do to overcome that challenge?

There is a 250 word limit per question.

In full the campaign will test the below Success Profile Elements:

Behaviours:
Making effective decisions, Developing Self and Others, Delivering at pace

Technical:
Please provide an example of a situation that challenged a specific area of your town planning skills. What did you do to overcome that challenge?

Strengths:
Yes

EO salary
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The salary for this role is £28,412 (London) or £25,324 (National)
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BENEFITS:

Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018:

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:

Birmingham
Bristol
Leeds
London
Manchester
Newcastle
Nottingham
Wolverhampton

SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES:

Sifting is envisaged to take place from 15/03/2023 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall.

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