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£45,441 progressing to £50,512 pa




Job Title: Senior School Planning Officer
Salary: £45,441 progressing to £50,512 pa - Pay Increase pending
Hours: 37.0
Location: Stevenage
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Childrens Services

About the team

The School Planning team commissions schools and school places as part of the Local Authority's statutory duty to ensure a sufficient supply of school places across the county. It strategically plans school capacity across an area, engaging with Head Teachers, Governing Bodies and Academy Trusts to negotiate the right number of school places to meet demand through the adjustment of admissions numbers, expansion and contraction of school size, opening new schools as well as school closures, leading and coordinating statutory processes round school reorganisation.

We formulate the Local Authority's education infrastructure response to long term housing growth proposals ensuring land is secured for new school provision as part of District Council Local Plan making processes. The team leads on planning new school provision within areas of new strategic housing growth across the county whilst also engaging in discussions with schools in existing towns and villages about the right number of school places to meet local demand, working with muti-disciplinary teams across the organisation including Admissions, Property, Finance, Growth & Infrastructure colleagues.

About the role

This role involves leading on school planning activity, initially in the south-eastern area of the county.

You will be responsible for ensuring that there are sufficient school places across your area.

You will devise strategies from data analysis and other intelligence, formulating deliverable proposals through multi-disciplinary working and negotiating with school leaders, Governing Bodies and Trusts.

You will lead on statutory proposals in line with relevant legislation and draft reports to support member decisions through the political process.

You will produce evidence based need cases to identify and secure land as part of strategic local plan making processes and feed into negotiations to secure funding contributions from developers to mitigate the impact of new housing on education infrastructure in your area.

You will work collaboratively with other teams and organisations to ensure schemes are delivered on time and to budget.

About you

Essential:
  • Qualifications to include at least 2 A levels or equivalent.
  • Demonstrable critical thinking skills with the ability to analyse complex datasets and draw well-founded conclusions.
  • Experience of strategic thinking and planning.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences both in writing and verbally.
  • Evidence of sound and effective negotiation skills demonstrating the ability to influence outcomes in challenging situations.
  • Experience of successfully achieving positive results through working collaboratively with others.
  • Strong organisation skills, able to work self directed under pressure.
  • Demonstrable good understanding of the complexities of operating in a political environment.
  • Driving license and access to a car.
Desirable:
  • Qualified to degree level.
  • Previous school planning experience or similar/associated roles such as town planning or project management.
  • A good understanding of school organisation and the role of the Local Authority as commissioner.



This job role is within the Community Services, level COM12 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Community services




To hear more about this opportunity please contact Kate Leahy on 01992 555864 or Kate Ma on 01992 556669.

for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 2nd & 3rd October 2024

Benefits of working for us



How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
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Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.

Closing date: Sun 15/09/2024 at 01:00
Job reference: HCC25767
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