Planning Technical Business Support Officer
- Employer
- Osborne Richardson
- Location
- England, London, East London
- Salary
- £16 - £18 per hour
- Closing date
- 16 Jan 2019
- Reference
- OR/077060
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- Sector
- Local Authority, Public sector
- Contract Type
- Interim, contract & temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
- Job Level
- Assistant, Officer
- Specialism
- Development Control, Other, Planning
Job Details
Excellent opportunity to join one of the busiest planning authorities in London and take up a key support role in their team. As a Technical Support Officer you will be involved with a range of administrative functions concerned with the processing of planning applications. Typically this will include receiving and logging applications, scanning and uploading onto the relevant database, validating applications to check for content and preparing documents to be used in planning committee meetings; you will also assist in drafting planning notice letters.
Other duties will include dealing with inbound calls and providing advice to customers. You may also be required to do this in person when people come into the office. On a day to day basis you will deal with a high volume of enquiries and you will help manage a busy flow of emails. Another key function of the role will be utilising our clients document management system to index application documents.
This role would be suited to a Graduate in Town Planning looking for their first career step and exposure to public sector town planning work or someone with good admin skills and previous experience within town planning and therefore a good understanding of the terminology and the planning application process.
The role is based in East London, is likely to roll on for some time as this is one of our busiest clients and the rate will be around £16-£18/hr. Contact us ASAP if you are interested and would like more info.
Company
Osborne Richardson is widely accepted as one of the UK's market leading recruitment agency specialising in the town planning sector.
We are a specialist provider of recruitment consultancy services to town planning and regeneration candidates and have expert knowledge of the town planning and regeneration sectors.
We represent a wide variety of private and public sector employers including planning, property, architectural and engineering consultancies, private property companies, blue-chip retail and residential developers, regeneration agencies and other publicly funded organisations.
We're 100% candidate focussed which means that your needs are our starting point.
We offer a totally bespoke service to candidates so you can specify your requirements and we will work towards them.
Private Sector Roles – CJ Obi - 020 729 11150
Public Sector Roles – Thomas Atkinson 0207 580 1500
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