Planning Manager

Salary: £41,000

Sport England is currently recruiting to our RTPI Award Winning In-house Planning Team of the Year 2019 in our North Planning Team.

Right now, the opportunities to get involved in sport and activity depend too much on your background, your gender, your bank balance and your postcode. We’re determined to tackle this and unlock the advantages of sport and physical activity for everyone.

We are seeking to add to our experienced and established team of Planning Managers to help deliver our high quality statutory and strategic planning functions predominantly within the North West. This will include fulfilling our role as a statutory consultee relating to the protection of playing fields and combining strategic planning and development management skills with specialist guidance and tools to help ensure that the planning system provides environments and places that enable people to benefit from sport and physical activity.

Our role in the Planning team is about creating active environments. Sport England is here to invest in sport and physical activity to make it a normal part of life for everyone in England, regardless of who you are. Together, we can change lives for the better in every home, and in every community, right across the country.

We are looking for a person who is a Chartered Member of the RTPI and have experience of working in a Local Planning Authority or planning consultancy in such areas as policy development, urban design and/or development control (planning applications).

Together, we won’t stop until everyone has the opportunity, the inspiration and the freedom to get moving. You can help up do this.

To view our job pack and to apply, please visit our website by clicking on the 'Apply Button'. 

For further information about the role, please contact Janet Belfield, Principal Planning Manager on 07919 044159 or email general queries about working at Sport England to hrrecruitment@sportengland.org

Sport England recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly where we are under-represented, currently, this includes disabled people and those from Black, Asian and other ethnically diverse backgrounds. Find out more about our commitment to diversity at https://www.sportengland.org/careers