JOB ALERT! Carlow County Council opens applications for a high salary job of up to 82K

Carlow County Council has announced an opening for a job as Executive Planner with a salary of up to €82,000.

The closing date to apply is 12pm on Friday 16th January 2026.

An Executive Planner is currently the second grade within the tiers of planning posts within Carlow County

Council.

These range from Assistant Planner, Senior Executive Planner through to Senior Planner.

Executive Planners work within the Planning Section and the section works broadly under the following headings:

Forward Planning, Development Management and Enforcement.

However, an Executive Planner will be required to input into multi-disciplinary project teams on occasion, under the direction and line management of the Senior Executive Planner and/or Senior Planner.

Depending on the needs of the department/organisation, the Executive Planner may also be required to carry out duties as assigned by other delegated officers from time to time.

Local Authorities also play a key role in supporting economic development and enterprise promotion at a local level.

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The Executive Planner may from time to time be required to deputise for the 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 a wide range of productive working relationship both internally

and externally to the organisation

• Implementing change

• Public service values

The ideal candidate should also have an excellent technical knowledge base and experience of planning

policy and practices to include the following:

• Planning legislation & procedures across the areas of forward planning, development

management and enforcement in particular

• Current and future planning issues facing County Carlow and its wider region

• Administration, report writing and putting across a well-researched and reasoned

recommendation

• Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams or demonstration of ability to do so

• Project or team leadership

• Awareness of and management of Health, Safety and Welfare in the workplace

• Operating ICT systems, in particular word processing, presentation and GIS systems

• Prioritising of work effectively

• Acting on own initiative

• Dealing effectively with conflicting demands

• Working under pressure to tight deadline

The annual salary which is analogous to the post of Executive Engineer/Planner as follows:

1st August 2025 scale: €59,658 – €61,829 - €64,000 - €66,175 - €68,349 - €70,521 - €72,696 – €74,857 –

€77,043 – €79,209 – LSI 1 €81,706 – LSI 2 €82,929

Holders of the post will be paid at the appropriate point on the salary scale in accordance with the relevant Department Circular.

The starting pay for new entrants will be at the minimum of the scale. The salary shall be fully inclusive and shall be as determined from time to time. 

For more information or to apply, click the link here.