Seven Resourcing are looking for an Admin Team Leader to work on an interim basis with Somerset Council within their planning team for an initial period of 3 months.
37 Hours Per Week
£15.70 Per Hour (PAYE) or £20.39 Per Hour (Umbrella)
The Job-
Supervise a multi-disciplinary team of Planning Technicians to deliver an efficient, high quality, continuously improving service across a wide range of service requests from general enquiries to the validation, registration and processing of planning applications, ensuring legal requirements are met and legislation and local or national policies are complied with.
To act as the site systems administrator and to work with other systems administrators to develop and manage the relevant planning software system to ensure it remains up to date with regard legislative changes and to enhance the efficiency of the Service to ultimately achieve a better quality of service to the public .Responsible for decision taking under the officer scheme of delegation for planning and other related applications.
- To manage a team of Planning Technicians and carry out regular performance reviews in line with corporate policy, coaching and directing as required to further individual’s personal development and roll out staff improvements. Where a member of staff fails to achieve the expected level of performance the post holder will be required to take relevant remedial action with regard training and support.
- Supervise the daily workloads and address resource issues as necessary to ensure performance targets are achieved, including the organising and programming of work and the development of team members.
- Deliver a broad range of activities e.g. system administration, purchasing and procurement administration, invoicing, debt management, data collation and report generation - both statutory and ad hoc, responding to Freedom of Information Requests.
Applicant Requirements -
- Business Administration/IT Level 3 Qualification
- ECDL
- Experience as an administrator within a local Authority
- Knowledge of planning legislations.
- Knowledge of democratic processes
- Experience in supervising admin teams
