Development Officer

Hours: 37

Contract Type: Fixed Term (career graded) post to 31 March 2025, subject to extension

Service Area: Sustainability Communities

Department: Registration Team

Bath & North East Somerset Council seeks an ambitious Development Officer to join the Regeneration team. In this career graded post, the successful candidate will be able to progress towards a senior grade within the post on delivery of key milestones, and the post will be extended on successful award of future grant funding.

The Regeneration Team has successfully delivered a series of Masterplans and Development briefs and is taking them through planning to delivery. The team has secured over £20m in project delivery funding over the last two years and is now progressing a range of ambitious regeneration schemes.

Your role will be to act as a key project officer, commissioning and overseeing delivery of a range of major commercial and development projects, within the Regeneration team – including the delivery of the Milsom Quarter Masterplan in Bath. You will be able to demonstrate how you can bring your knowledge and experience in planning or a related field to complex regeneration development lifecycle, including procurement, masterplanning, business case writing, engagement and consultation, land acquisition and planning/development delivery.

Activities will involve working as part of a project team to commission and develop development scheme for key sites, developing concept plans and outline and full planning applications. You will engage with the development industry to commission and secure high quality development outcomes in Bath and North East Somerset in accordance with the Council’s Vision & Values, Strategy, Policy, and other objectives.

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Bath & North East Somerset lies between the Cotswold and Mendip areas of outstanding natural beauty. The city of Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, built around Britain’s only thermal springs.

This role offers the opportunity for flexible working, with a combination of working from home and office working. Office time will be mainly spent in our award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible on public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away. Hot desking workspaces are also available in the Guildhall/Commercial Hub in Bath and Midsomer Norton

Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.

Why B&NES Council?

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

• A competitive salary package
• A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
• A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
• The Local Government Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
• Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
• Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

Interested to find out more?

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Cleo Newcombe-Jones, Regeneration Manager to arrange a time for a call (Cleo_Newcombe-Jones@bathnes.gov.uk)

To apply

Please use the online application facility.

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Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.

Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.

Interview Date: Monday 13th March 2023

As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.