Urban Designer
- Employer
- Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils
- Location
- Civc Centre, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Pershore, WR10 1PT
- Salary
- £34,788 - £38,084
- Closing date
- 13 Aug 2019
- Reference
- HR0000000397
Job Details
Malvern Hills District Council and Wychavon District Council are proactive and successful authorities that have recently combined their Planning Services team.
We are looking for an experienced urban design professional to join our team. You will be working across both Councils leading on the Councils’ input on the design and delivery of urban design projects, including major schemes.
Urban Designer
37 hours per week
£34,788 - £38,084 per annum
Based in our Planning Policy Team, but working on behalf of both councils, you’ll have a lead role in urban design, shaping the future of our districts, delivering distinctive, sustainable, well connected and high quality places.
You’ll be responsible for providing specialist advice and guidance on the full range of urban design matters, negotiating on high profile and strategic planning applications on a day to day basis. You’ll also play a leading role in bringing forward strategic local plan allocations and associated master planning, formulating design policies in the new Local Plan / supplementary guidance and enhancing the skills and knowledge of colleagues.
We are looking for someone with the ambition, creativity and commitment to ensure that new development is of the highest quality design, supports our wider sustainability objectives, and preserves our built outstanding natural and built heritage. Exceptional communication skills that can influence a wide variety of audiences and the ability to respond confidently in a variety of situations are essential. You will need to demonstrate a creative approach to working with excellent problem-solving and organisational skills.
You should be able to demonstrate:
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Creativity with an innovative approach to recognising and solving problems.
In depth knowledge and appreciation of urban design principles
Ability to provide high quality advice and decision-making in relation to urban design matters
Ability to undertake and support high profile negotiations
Ability to manage and priorities complex workload meeting agreed deadlines and performance targets
The successful applicant will need to have a relevant degree level qualification, with chartered membership of (or eligible for) a relevant professional institute or body.
You will have experience of:
Providing professional/technical advice to local authorities or other relevant organisations
Developing and Promoting Urban Design policy and guidance
To discuss the post or for further information, please call Fred Davies on 01386 565367 or email fred.davies@wychavon.gov.uk
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Closing date: 11th August 2019
Interview date: 23rd August 2019
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Job Description and Person Specification
Company
Working for us
Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils are rewarding places to work, with high levels of resident satisfaction and motivated staff who enjoy working for us. Located in south Worcestershire, both districts boast beautiful natural environments, a rich heritage and plenty to do and see. The districts are ranked the top two best rural places to live in the West Midlands and are amongst the top 30 in the country.
We pride ourselves on being progressive organisations spending time, energy and investment on what we know matters to our residents and communities – things like supporting our town centres and rural communities, creating jobs, keeping the streets clean, reducing our carbon footprint, helping people feel safe and preventing homelessness.
Working with you
Our staff are at the heart of what we do, and as a result we are always looking to recruit and develop the very best talent we can find. That's why, as well as providing a satisfying job, we offer a range of attractive benefits, such as agile working for the majority of roles, generous holiday entitlements, a pension scheme, plenty of opportunities for personal development, and discounted gym membership.
We value skills and an ability to do a great job over identifying personal information and that’s why we anonymise all our recruitment until we reach interview stage. What you can offer us and how you will uphold our values and behaviours is really important to us and that’s what we look for during our recruitment process.
Our staff are our driving force, and it’s important our workforce reflects the communities we serve. More than 50% of our Senior Management Team is female, as is the majority of our Heads of Service.
We are a member of the Disability Confident Scheme and support the movement of change, to think differently about disability and apply this to how we recruit, retain and develop disabled people.
We value all our staff and are committed to eliminating unlawful discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity, and fostering good relations between people from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Want to know more?
The two councils have a shared Chief Executive and a joint senior management team. Whilst they retain their own political structures and distinct identities, the joint management structure allows us to maximise the opportunity to deliver a wide range of good value services to our customers and communities, and operate and develop shared services, collaborative working and partnership arrangements with each other, with other councils and with key stakeholders
Whichever council you work for, you can be sure it will be an enjoyable place to work, you will feel valued and appreciated and have an opportunity to develop your career in line with your potential and expectations. Please click for more information on or Malvern Hills District Council or Wychavon District Council
- Website
- http://www.wychavon.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 01386 565515
- Location
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Wychavon District Council
Civic Centre
Queen Elizabeth Drive
Pershore
Worcestershire
WR10 1PT
United Kingdom
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