The Executive Planner will from time to time be required to deputise for a Senior Executive Planner or more senior personnel and must be willing to take on this challenge. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated person, with a strong sense of commitment to delivering quality public services and shall demonstrate a clear knowledge and understanding of:
 

• Local authority services, its key stakeholders and relationships
• Local government structures and its democratic role and mandate
• Current local government issues, future trends and strategic direction of the sector, particularly in relation to planning policy and practice
• Key policies guiding the local government sector
• National, Regional and Local planning issues
• Fostering and maintaining wide ranging productive working relationship both internally and externally to the organisation
• Implementing change
• Public service values

Further Information can be found in the Candidate Booklet