- Pay Rate:
up to £47.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
- GLOUCESTER,
GL1 2TG
Interim Principal Highways Development Coordinator
Reference no: Gloucestershire 5236313
Pay Rate: up to £47.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: GLOUCESTER
The position will require fortnightly attendance in Gloucestershire for site visits, officer meetings. Attendance at planning Committee meetings and appeals would also be required
To provide timely advice and recommendations to the local planning authority (County and/or District Council) making sure that the Highways Authority’s position is clearly represented. Provide direction and guidance to less experienced colleagues within Highways Development Management, so as to provide a proactive, effective and cost-efficient service. Provide a Highways Development Management perspective to the development of policy and strategy for the Local Transport Plan, and the Highway Authority. To facilitate economic sustainable development within the County in the context of the councils’ policies and strategies
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage in pre-application discussions with Planning Officers, developers, consultants, and District Councils as appropriate.
- Provide HDM advice on the need for, and scope of, Transportation Assessments, Transportation Statements and Travel Plans, and to undertake an assessment of these documents when submitted in support of planning applications.
- Provide appropriate recommendations on highways and transport issues within agreed timelines to District planning authorities in response to consultation on planning applications including mitigation and developer contributions.
- Represent the Highways Authority at County and District Planning Committee meetings, and other stakeholder meetings, and site visits, to provide highways and transport advice in relation to planning applications and Local Plan spatial growth options.
- Negotiate Section 106 financial contributions to strategic infrastructure that supports the objectives of the Local Transport Plan.
- Instruct the Major Projects team concerning the design and delivery of Section 106 funded schemes
- Instruct Legal officers to prepare and enter into legal agreements with 3rd party developers.
- Build and maintain a close working relationship with Senior Officers within the County Council and district councils and to forge effective working relations with developers and other stakeholders in the county to facilitate economic sustainable development.
- Commission supporting services from transport consultants.
- Establish and maintain appropriate professional working relations with Elected Members
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Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
- Degree in Civil Engineering, or relevant degree wit compensatory knowledge, abilities and skills
Knowledge:
- Proven understanding of highway engineering and design standards, and the ability to translate and communicate these to stakeholders
Experience:
- Substantial experience in a public or private organisation dealing with Highways development management issues
- Substantial experience in Highways Planning and Development legislation
- Experience of public presentation at planning committees and planning hearings
- Experience of negotiating complex legal agreements
- Experience of engineering design standards
- Experience of using transport modelling applications
- Experience of working within a political environment or in supporting Local Authorities
- Experience of preparing reports for technical appraisal and public review
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly effective negotiation skills
- Ability to interpret complex transport modelling techniques and results
- Ability to Interpret and implement contemporary transport policy
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