Digital Planner – Join Our Innovative Digital Transformation Team
Are you passionate about improving planning systems through digital transformation? Do you have a strong understanding of planning applications and a desire to make processes more efficient and user-friendly? We’re looking for a Digital Planner to help us deliver cutting-edge, government-funded digital planning application systems.
The Role: As a Digital Planner, you will play a key role in delivering innovative digital systems that streamline planning processes and improve the user experience. You will:
- Identify service improvements, build and test new application features.
- Lead the roll-out of digital planning systems across the council.
- Collaborate with other councils to share insights and successes.
- Monitor system performance, ensuring continuous improvement.
- Coordinate input from multiple teams to develop efficient, data-driven processes.
- Champion the move to digital, working closely with stakeholders to promote and embed new technologies.
About You:
- Experience: You have a proven track record in managing planning applications and a strong understanding of planning processes.
- Skills: You’re confident in contributing your planning expertise to digital projects, and may have experience in project management.
- Communication: You excel at working with multiple stakeholders and promoting digital ways of working across departments.
- Drive for Innovation: You’re enthusiastic about using data and technology to improve services and make processes more efficient.
If you’re ready to lead the way in digital transformation within the planning sector and collaborate with forward-thinking teams, we’d love to hear from you.
Additional Information
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
This is a 12 months Fixed Term Contract (FTC)
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Sunday 10 November 2024
Assessment and Interviews: Monday 18 November 2024
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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