Based in the stunning county of Pembrokeshire, with some of the most breath taking coastal scenery in Britain, award winning beaches and rolling mountains, we are offering the opportunity for a professionally qualified Town Planner to lead one of our two Area Development Management Teams and to work and live in an area of outstanding beauty. If you want to exercise your existing management skills, enjoy providing an efficient and consistent planning service and want to live and work in a peaceful yet culturally vibrant location, with outdoor pursuits galore, historical and natural beauty on your doorstep, read on………

The role we have available will involve managing a small team of Development Management Officers, determining delegated planning applications, dealing with major planning applications and providing statutory pre-application advice and planning enforcement matters.

With this in mind you will be able to demonstrate strong leadership and mentoring skills with a sound knowledge of the planning system and a keen desire to develop the skills of your immediate team, as well as make a contribution to the overall planning teams in terms of supporting the provision of an efficient and customer focused service.  

Key to this role is the consistent delivery of high quality planning services to meet the full range of statutory and non-statutory planning requirements, with a view to continuous improvement to further enhance and improve service delivery to the service user.  

As well as superb quality of life , other benefits of this role include a relocation package, generous holiday allowance of 25 days a year rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service, an annual leave purchase scheme, flexible working, a Local Government pension scheme, as well as access to tax efficient salary sacrifice bike and car schemes.

If all of the above appeals to you, then please get in contact. A full copy of the job description and details of how to apply can be accessed on https://jobs.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/.

If you wish to discuss any aspects of the role please e-mail Harriet.lavender@pembrokeshire.gov.uk.

Interviews will be held on 13th December 2019.