Job Description
Contract terms
Starting salary: PO1 (£40,182 – £42,060)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Fixed term contract (12 months from start date)
Closing date: Sunday, 24th August 2025 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 1st September 2025
About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
About The Role
As a member of the Council’s Planning Policy Team, you will play a key role in shaping the borough’s future by supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring of planning policies and strategies. A central focus of the role will be contributing to the production of the Council’s New Local Plan—this includes preparing documentation, creating maps and visual materials for presentations, and engaging with local communities and stakeholders throughout the consultation process. You will also have the opportunity to support a range of other exciting workstreams, including placemaking initiatives, climate emergency response, infrastructure planning, supplementary planning documents, and neighbourhood plans.
About The Team
You’ll be joining the Council’s Planning Policy Team—a dynamic and forward-thinking group responsible for developing, implementing, reviewing, and monitoring the borough’s planning policies and strategies. The team plays a pivotal role in shaping the long-term vision for the area, ensuring that planning decisions support sustainable growth, community wellbeing, and environmental resilience.
About You
We’re looking for someone with a genuine passion for creating great places and a collaborative spirit to thrive within our small, dynamic team. You’ll be enthusiastic about engaging with Haringey’s diverse communities and driven to help make the borough a better place for everyone. Strong digital skills are essential, along with a willingness to quickly learn new graphic design tools—ideally, you’ll have experience with Adobe InDesign and the wider Adobe Creative Suite. While a degree in town planning, architecture, urban design, or a related field is desirable, it’s not essential; we value a broad skill set to support our varied work programme. Familiarity with software such as SketchUp Pro, Google Earth Pro, Vu.City, MapInfo, ArcGIS, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, or Power BI would be a welcome bonus.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
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