Job Title:
Senior Executive Planner
Employer:
Wicklow County Council
County:
Wicklow
Closing Date:
3pm, Thursday, 28th August 2025
Starting Salary:
€79,090
About the Employer:
Wicklow County Council is the Local Government Authority for County Wicklow and is responsible for the delivery of the full range of services. Wicklow County Council seeks to enhance the county's attraction as a place in which to invest, work, and live, and takes the lead role in shaping the strategic vision of the county. It provides a diverse, multi-layered and evolving range of services to both citizens and visitors to County Wicklow, which include the provision of housing, planning, development, environmental, roads and traffic, leisure and community services. It also has an enhanced role in leading out economic and community development in the County. The Council works in partnership with other state, public and private bodies in the delivery of critical infrastructure and shared services.
Wicklow County Council has an elected body comprising of 32 elected members and employs a workforce in excess of 800 employees, currently covering 5 Municipal Districts – Bray, Greystones, Wicklow, Arklow and Baltinglass. Our employees work in a dynamic and progressive local authority which promotes training and development of our employees who are our most valuable resource. The 2025 annual revenue budget for the local authority is approximately €168 million. The Council also continues to invest in the infrastructure of the county and through its Capital Investment Programme.
About the Role:
The role of the Senior Executive Planner is to manage, under the general direction of the Senior Planner and in conjunction with the Planning Management Team, the day-to-day efficient running of a team within the Planning Department of Wicklow County Council. This Department currently operates under three key areas:
1. Forward Planning to include responsibility for the review of the County Development and Local Area Plans
2. Development Management
3. Planning Enforcement (to include taking in charge of housing developments) The Senior Executive Planner will from time to time be required to deputise for the Senior Planner or other 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
• Key policies guiding the local government sector
• Current local government issues, future trends and strategic direction of the sector, particularly in relation to planning policy and practice
• National, Regional and Local planning issues
• Line management and quality control of recommendations across all areas of planning
• Fostering and maintaining wide ranging productive working relationship both internally and externally to the organisation
• Implementing change
• Public service values
About You:
The ideal candidate shall have the following Skills and Experience:
• Planning legislation & procedures across the areas of forward planning, development management and enforcement in particular
• Current and future planning issues facing County Wicklow and its wider region
• Administration, report writing and putting across well-researched and reasoned recommendations
• Project Management
• Leading multidisciplinary teams or demonstrate and ability to do so
• Awareness of and management of Health, Safety and Welfare in the workplace
• Operating ICT systems, in particular word processing, presentation and GIS systems
• Prioritising work effectively
• Acting on own initiative
• Dealing effectively with conflicting demands
• Working under pressure to tight deadlines
The Closing Date for this competition is Thursday, 28th of August at 3pm.
We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act.