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Landscape Officer

Cirencester

Are you passionate about protecting and enhancing the landscape of the Cotswolds?

An exciting opportunity to join our Cotswold District Council as a Landscape Officer. You will be pivotal, on providing high quality and robust landscape and green infrastructure advice, in order to conserve and enhance our landscape, whilst delivering positive environmental outcomes, aligned with our climate change and sustainability priorities, across the area.

This permanent role offers the flexibility of working within the offices at Cirencester and agile working, allowing you that extra freedom and work life balance.

Are you interested in taking the next stage in your career through landscape conservation and enhancement? Or are you already a Landscape Officer, who is experienced in providing sound landscape and green infrastructure guidance? If so we would love to hear from you.

Our environmental service is fundamental to the success of the council’s ambition for a sustainable future. We are passionate about leading on our climate and ecological emergencies in the area. From the strategic site at the Steadings under development in Cirencester to allocating the best sites for housing and employment in the Local Plan, our focus is to enable our communities in the Cotswold district and beyond to thrive, creating great places for people to live, work, learn and enjoy in our ever-evolving communities.

We want our future generations to be able to enjoy and benefit from the beautiful landscape of the district, including the Cotswolds National Landscape, our Special Landscape Areas, high number of Conservation Areas and other natural capital assets.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Landscape Officer to join the team, to provide high quality landscape and green infrastructure advice on planning proposals and on allocations and policies in the Local Plan, ensuring that we protect and enhance our valuable landscapes and that new accessible and multi-functional green infrastructure is created and maintained.

You will work with a variety of different stakeholders or partnerships, including the Cotswold National Landscape Board, developers, planning agents and applicants, landscape consultants, local communities, and other customers. You will be vital in creating sustainable, positive outcomes, across the area, through aforward thinking and practical solutions based approach.

Ultimately we are looking for a proficient Landscape Officer. Fundamentally, we want to give you the tools to support you, harness your potential and grow within your role long term.

You will need

• Postgraduate qualification in your area of expertise, or equivalent to a degree or relevant experience of 2 years in a related Landscape role.
• High level of knowledge, understanding and experience of all aspects of landscape and green infrastructure.
• Experience of being involved in continuously improving services and developing products to meet customer need
• Good communication and negotiation skills.

If you wish to have an informal discussion about this role, please contact Sophia Price via the email address to the right of this advert.

For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification.

What can we do for you?

• Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
• Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role)
• 27 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays and an extra two volunteering days off a year for you to support a charity of your choice
• Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
• Pension scheme with a good employer contribution of 5% of your earnings
• Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
• Access to digital financial advice (covering your pension scheme, mortgages and other finances)
• Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements
• Additional income protection, covering 50% of your salary for potentially a further five years if you are unable to work due to sickness or injury

To apply for this position please click on Apply Now and submit your CV and supporting statement. Please tell us about your skills, knowledge, qualifications, experience and how they meet the criteria listed above and in the job description/person specification. It’s important that we’re a good fit for each other, so let us know what’s important to you and why you want to work for Publica Group Ltd. Your application will not be considered if you have not provided a supporting statement, in addition to your CV.

Accredited of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies - Please state this within your covering statement or in a separate email.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable adults, young people and children.  Safer recruitment practices are applied to all job vacancies. Safer recruitment practices are applied to all job vacancies. Successful candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment medical questionnaire; provide references;  proof of identity; nationality and immigration status; three years’ employment or education history (if applicable) and, in some cases, verification of criminal record.

                               

Salary: £35,946 - £38,916pa pro rata

Hours Per Week: 22.5 hours

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