Landscape Officer
10 days ago
Gloucester
About The Role Landscape Officer £39,967 £42,107 per annum pro rata Hours per week 29.6 Fixed Term Contract 2 Years Cirencester/Agile Are you passionate about protecting and enhancing the landscape of the Cotswolds? An exciting opportunity to join Cotswold District Council as our Landscape Officer on atwo-yearfixed term contract. You will be pivotal, in providing high quality, robust landscape and green infrastructure advice - ensuring the delivery of positive environmental outcomes that will support our community, climate change and nature recovery priorities. The Cotswold District isa great place, and we are rightly proud of our businesses,communitiesand residents.Werebusy recreating a councilthatspro-active and responsive to the needs of our residents and businesses in a fast-changing environment. That means we need to be fleet of foot and look for innovative and creative ways to deliver against our Corporate Plan priorities. The Council has an ambitious Council Plan focused on a range of important priorities including climate action, strong local communities, and a vibrant district economy. About the role Our Natural, Built and Historic Environment Service is fundamental to the success of the Councils ambition for a sustainable future. 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 theDistrict, through a forward thinking and practicalsolutions basedapproach. You will need • Postgraduate qualification in your area of expertise, • Significant relevant experience in a related Landscape role., • High levelof knowledge,understandingand experience of all aspects of landscape and green infrastructure., • Ability to work positively with a range of stakeholders and customers, • Experience of being involved in continuously improving services and developing products to meet customer need, • Good communicationand negotiation skills.Special Conditions, • Full Driving Licence and access to a vehicle, • 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, which increases to 30 days after five years of service, • An extra two volunteering days per year to support a charity of your choice, • A health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care, • Generous contributory local government pension scheme, • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues, • Cycle to work scheme, • Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with significant tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars JBRP1_UKTJ