Graduate Planner Norwich based

Job Purpose

As a Graduate Planner you will provide support to the wider planning team on planning applications and projects. With the support of colleagues, you will develop core competencies to help you consolidate your technical skills and confidence as you build your career.

Key Responsibilities

Developing ourselves and others

• Is proactive with regards to ongoing development of personal technical competence which they can apply to their work
• Acquires practical knowledge and expertise by learning on the job.
• Applies standard principles, practices, and techniques to follow established procedures.
• Plans, schedules, and monitors own work within agreed deadlines.
• Keeps up to date with current developments within own areas of expertise as well as gaining a wider knowledge of the company.

Collaboration and innovation

• Provides reliable technical / process input on own initiative but able to determine when work should be escalated to a higher level.
• Liaises and assists other team members who are also developing.
• Prepares letters, reports and others documents under supervision and/or from standard templates.
• Carries out site visits.

Defining our future

• Understands the Lanpro strategy, has knowledge of their area of disciplines business plan and where the role fits within the plan.
• Able to put forward ideas which can help improve the business, by suggesting new ways of working or better use of technology or automation.

Delivering our projects

• Operates within a defined area of work and provides support to their team as required.
• Understands the fundamentals of project management and Rapport and how this applies to their work and commercial impact of these.
• Responsible for the completion of specifically assigned tasks to time and cost whilst working within established routines and principles.
• Drafting planning applications, pre-application enquiries and appeals.
• Undertaking basic planning appraisals and research
• Preparation of fee proposals to generate new business.
• Review of Local Planning Authority (LPA) Local Plans and their stage of production.
• Assisting clients throughout the planning process.
• Assisting with community engagement, committee meetings and public examinations.
• Communicating with all stakeholders involved in the planning process.

Qualifications & Experience

• An RTPI accredited degree or Masters in a related discipline.
• Will have spent some time working in the planning industry, even if only as part of your work placement.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Good communication skills.
• Is open and seeks support / assistance from senior colleagues when struggling to fulfil tasks.
• Good client liaison skills.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Project management skills.
• Solid report writing skills
• Understanding of the UK planning process