Senior Natural Environment Officer
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Towcester, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Natural Environment Officer for a 13 week period contract on a rate of £50 per hour Umbrella or £38.46 per hour PAYE. The role will be a hybrid mix of working at home and onsite.
Responsibilities:
– To make a proactive and positive contribution to the effective delivery of the Planning Service, this will include working flexibly and positively to achieve the objectives of the Organisation.
– To deliver excellent customer service in every interaction for all internal and external customers, including Councillors.
– To respond in a timely and professional manner to requests for support from members of the public seeking to engage with the Planning Service. This will include providing support to the Customer Contact Centre and the Complaints and Customer Feedback teams where required.
– To support timely responses to customer, MP and Councillor complaints, feedback, FOI and EIR requests to ensure the Planning Service is consistently meeting corporate service standards.
– To implement the Organisation’s place shaping agenda and its objective to be positive and proactive in terms of allowing the ‘right schemes’ in the ‘right place’ at the ‘right time’.
– To provide appropriate technical advice to the public, developers, agents, Members, other departments of the Organisation and other persons and bodies as appropriate in connection with development proposals and related matters in writing, by telephone or in person.
– To provide a high standard of timely natural environment advice to the development management service and other relevant services across the Organisation and in the Place Directorate.7
– To prepare advice on natural environment matters for the Planning Policy/Planning Committees or other meetings and site visits, as appropriate, including the briefing of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Elected Members.
– To balance a high standard of nature conservation in development in West Northamptonshire with the need to support growth, inward investment, sustainability and energy efficiency.
– To assist in the preparation and review of the Local Plan including policy making and site-specific advice as required
Essential Skills:
– Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.
– Extensive experience of working in local government providing a high standard of timely ecological advice to the development management service and other relevant services.
– Relevant undergraduate degree and postgraduate qualification.
– Purpose of role is principally to comment on planning applications from an ecology perspective.
– Someone who is located close to Towcester would be preferable because the postholder might need to visit the office and go out on site occasionally, but we can be flexible about this.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– To make a proactive and positive contribution to the effective delivery of the Planning Service, this will include working flexibly and positively to achieve the objectives of the Organisation.
– To deliver excellent customer service in every interaction for all internal and external customers, including Councillors.
– To respond in a timely and professional manner to requests for support from members of the public seeking to engage with the Planning Service. This will include providing support to the Customer Contact Centre and the Complaints and Customer Feedback teams where required.
– To support timely responses to customer, MP and Councillor complaints, feedback, FOI and EIR requests to ensure the Planning Service is consistently meeting corporate service standards.
– To implement the Organisation’s place shaping agenda and its objective to be positive and proactive in terms of allowing the ‘right schemes’ in the ‘right place’ at the ‘right time’.
– To provide appropriate technical advice to the public, developers, agents, Members, other departments of the Organisation and other persons and bodies as appropriate in connection with development proposals and related matters in writing, by telephone or in person.
– To provide a high standard of timely natural environment advice to the development management service and other relevant services across the Organisation and in the Place Directorate.7
– To prepare advice on natural environment matters for the Planning Policy/Planning Committees or other meetings and site visits, as appropriate, including the briefing of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Elected Members.
– To balance a high standard of nature conservation in development in West Northamptonshire with the need to support growth, inward investment, sustainability and energy efficiency.
– To assist in the preparation and review of the Local Plan including policy making and site-specific advice as required
Essential Skills:
– Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.
– Extensive experience of working in local government providing a high standard of timely ecological advice to the development management service and other relevant services.
– Relevant undergraduate degree and postgraduate qualification.
– Purpose of role is principally to comment on planning applications from an ecology perspective.
– Someone who is located close to Towcester would be preferable because the postholder might need to visit the office and go out on site occasionally, but we can be flexible about this.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.
