Specialist Consultants in An Bord Pleanála

Qualifications Required

Applications are invited from Chartered Members of the following professions: Architecture, Town Planning, Engineering and Surveying. Evidence of formal membership and Registration (where appropriate) of the relevant professional body will be required.

Experience Required

Satisfactory knowledge, background and recent relevant experience in Disability Access issues and Part M of the Building Regulations 2000, as amended.

Nature of Work

The appointed consultants will be required to provide reports including details of assessment, recommendations and on the Disability Access Certificate appeal received by the Board. The appointed consultants must be able to provide such reports in a timely fashion and within strict timescales.

Rates of Payment

Fee per day is €699 with time estimate authorised in advance.

Amount of Work

The appointed part-time consultants are not being engaged as employees and the appointments made do not attract any statutory protection available to employees or superannuation rights. The part-time engagement is offered on a contract for services basis only and does not attract any . No undertaking will be given in relation to the actual number of cases assigned. If work is unsatisfactory no further files will be assigned.

Conflict of Interest

No work for the Board may be undertaken which might result in a pecuniary or other beneficial interest to you (other than the payment from the Board). No work which might conflict with the specific case work being done for the Board may be undertaken.

Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct for Board Members, Employees and Certain Other Persons applies to specialist consultants. Refer to paragraphs 13 and 14 of the Code which is available on this website under the heading “About”.

Applications

Applications with a CV should be sent to Mr. John Duffy, Human Resources, An Bord Pleanála, 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1, or alternatively by e-mail to competitions@pleanala.ie so as to reach him by 5.30 p.m. on 26^th October, 2010.

Applicants may be short-listed on the basis of the information supplied. Interviews may be held in November/December 2010.