Planning Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency
Environment Agency
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London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Number of jobs available- - Region
  • London


  • City/Town

  • London


  • Building/Site

  • Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF


  • Grade

  • Staff Grade
  • Post Type
  • Permanent


  • Working Pattern

  • Full Time


  • Role Type

  • Planning


  • Salary Minimum £25,04

  • Job description
  • We are the Environment Agency. We work with government, local councils, businesses, and communities to make our environment cleaner, safer, and healthier for people and wildlife. We deal with the effects and causes of climate change, perhaps the most serious longterm threat to the environment that we face.
As a member of our Sustainable Places team your work will involve:

  • Providing a positive planning service to local planning authorities, developers and consultants
  • Negotiating environmental outcomes
  • Providing admin support to the team
  • Contributing to internal business improvement working groups
There is no requirement for your background to be in the planning sector.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do.

You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident.

This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

The team-We are a positive, friendly and hardworking team who take pride in delivering outcomes.

We are dual located across our offices in London and Welwyn Garden City and so travel to our Hertfordshire office may be required on occasion.


  • Experience/skills required
  • We're looking for a talented and dynamic team member. You will demonstrate professionalism, integrity and compassion. You will be adaptable and resilient under pressure and enjoy working as part of a supportive team.

The skills we are interested in are:

  • Qualified to at least degree standard (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
  • Good time management skills
  • Problemsolving skills
  • An ability to prioritise workload
  • Influencing and negotiation skills
  • Excellent customer services skills
  • An ability to communicate to a wide range of audiences
Most importantly, a passion to develop a career which will create a better place for people and wildlife.

  • Contact and additional informationThis role will attract London weighting.
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