Job Description

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Land

• Assist the business in identifying opportunities both for short and medium term land acquisition.
• Provide support & assistance to Land Team in preparation of early feasibility studies & concept design.
• In conjunction with the Development Director assess the viability of a site working in conjunction with other departments to include Sales, Commercial, Technical and Construction.
• Participate in selection of & manage in instruction, briefing and co-ordination of relevant consultants.
• Provide planning appraisals/risk assessments for initial development proposals.

Planning

• Manage strategic opportunities to optimise the value of individual projects.
• Ensure planning process is strategically managed with clarity and purpose.
• Prepare and execute appointments & fees with relevant professional consultants.
• Manage design development of high quality through concept/feasibility/outline/ scheme design work stages.
• Manage the preparation of, comment upon & submission of planning material.
• Monitor, negotiate & advance planning applications, reporting progress regularly.
• Manage production of presentation material for committee consideration & early marketing.
• Attend & ensure the company is represented at pre-application, post consultation & committee meetings with Local Authorities.
• Devise & implement strategies for enhancing third party/neighbour/community relationships.
• Attend & make presentations to local residents' meetings & respond to ongoing queries & complaints.
• Ensure that all planning commitments, obligations, agreements & conditions are satisfied & approvals secured at earliest opportunity.
• Ensure that all Berkeley Group KPI ie Sustainability/ Building for Life commitments are achieved and communicated as required.
• Seek & negotiate any necessary planning amendments, variations or additional consents deriving from changes in production.
• Own, monitor & discharge all business schedules for applications, conditions & S106 obligations.
• Own, regularly update and report on planning programmes and associated risk assessment.

Affordable Housing

• Manage the integration of affordable housing strategy from Berkeley Partnership Homes into emerging developments.
• Participate in the selection of preferred RP's & assist in negotiation & completion of Development Agreements, Specifications and Leases.
• Manage & co-ordinate the preparation of relevant conveyance plans to support such Leases.
• Own and monitor business Schedule of Affordable Accommodation.

Personal Specification:

• Proactive, self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook
• Passion for corporate responsibility
• Keen to deliver exceptional customer service
• Flexible and reliable
• Credible, and comfortable in dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders
• Reliable, tolerant, and determined
• Team player
• Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person's point of view

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

RICS qualified. 5 years post qualification experience in residential led mixed use development. Full and clean driving license. AutoCAD (preferred). Demonstration of experience in both public and private sectors preferably acting for a residential developer. Planning procedures, development control and building regulations requirements. Experience in using web based collaboration systems i.e. Aconex/SharePoint.