Job Description

• Administer development control, enforcement, and regulatory service areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor planning consultations and lists from local planning authorities (LPAs) to ensure development proposals comply with YHDB polices.
• Monitor development or other activities that may impact the local land drainage system.
• Administer the land drainage consent application process.
• Support developers and LPA case officers with advice including through site visits.
• Carry out enforcement action including working with the Boards legal team.
• Support the Boards in meeting their ecological and waste management requirements.
• Any other reasonable duties in support of managers or other staff.

Essential Criteria:

• Vocational qualification relevant to role.
• Experience relevant to role
• Good standard of verbal and written English.
• Good IT skills.
• Good standard of maths.
• Driving licence.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Relevant qualification Level 3 (ONC) or above e.g., geography/construction/civil engineering. Member of relevant professional body. Experienced working for a local authority or local authority contractor in a regulatory setting. Experienced letter and/or report writer. Confident speaker and communicator.