Senior / Growth and Infrastructure Planner

Post: Senior/Growth & Infrastructure Planner – I to J

Term: Permanent

Salary: £44,430 - £51,663

About the Role

Recognising the importance of infrastructure, Tower Hamlets Council has an extensive Infrastructure Planning Team. The team are a core planning function with expertise in infrastructure planning, CIL and S106, but that is not the half of it. The team is breaking new ground and establishing infrastructure planning at the heart of great place making, and spatial planning and delivery.

With the aim of enabling the planning, funding, development and delivery of infrastructure, we are utilising data and technical knowledge as well as seeking out new and innovative ways, with a wide range of partners, to make sure the Council delivers the right infrastructure, in the right place, at the right time.

All of this in one of the most diverse boroughs in London, delivering significant housing and economic growth alongside a rapidly expanding population. The borough also benefits from the amazingly rich history of East London and an abundance of heritage assets such as the Tower of London, Island Gardens and Victoria Park.

You will take up a key role in our Growth Team, see details below of the work plan. As new challenges come up there is often space for us to flex our roles and structure allowing opportunities to take on new challenges and support our collective development.

The Growth Team:

-      This team help the council understand our collective infrastructure needs and our ability to deliver to meet those needs. This includes our living Infrastructure Delivery Plan, sophisticated CIL and S106 forecasting and subsequent analysis reporting on needs vs. means.

-      The team also take on a range of infrastructure specific challenges. In recent years we have produced innovative evidence and plans on matters such as children’s play, community spaces, digital, water and energy planning. We are now working to see that this translates into effective implementation, alongside considering our next set of evidence and intelligence challenges.

The position offers the successful applicant with a high-profile role that engages with major developers, strategic partners, and corporately across the Council.

About You

Tower Hamlets is a great place to live and work and we are passionate about what we do. We are committed to creating great places that make our communities are proud to live in and that can be enjoyed, now and long into the future. To help us achieve this we are looking for someone who will share our passion and relish the opportunity to tackle the exciting challenges ahead.

Your technical and professional knowledge will be important, and you will be expected to be able to deliver high quality outcomes. Equally as important will be your ability to do this in the right way, establishing strong relationships with partners and maintaining our reputation for innovation and finding solutions. You should also have the ability to balance a number of projects at any one time and have a proven track record of successfully operating in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Requirements

This post is open to candidates with appropriate knowledge, skills and experience to fulfil the job description and person specification attached to the role.

Benefits and Allowances

-      Annual Leave – generous leave allowance with continuous service provisions, granting additional leave to be achieved;

-      Pensions - You will automatically become a member of the Council's rewarding pension scheme;

-      Flexible working - the council seeks to ensure that employees achieve improved work life balance and offer flexibility to staff members such as the option to work from home (when appropriate);

-      Learning & development – the Council promotes continuous development of staff members at all times and support a wide range of internal and external training including project management, leadership development framework & technical training.

-      Staff loan scheme for annual season ticket - The council gives interest-free season ticket loans to staff who have successfully completed their probationary period;

-      Travel schemes/allowances – this includes: cycle to work scheme, pool bike scheme and expenses covered with all travel related to working task;

-      Employee Assistance Programme - the council offers an employee assistance programme that provides confidential counselling support services for both personal and work-related issues to staff.

Additional Employee Information

Closing date: 4^th April 2025

Shortlisting date: Week commencing 14^th April 2025

Interview date: Week commencing 21^st April 2025

If you have any questions about the roles or would like and informal chat, please contact Martyn on martyn.earl@towerhamlets.gov.uk or Matthew on matthew.pullen@towerhamlets.gov.uk