Conservation Officer
Team: PND - Technical Team
Job Family: Enabling CBG11
Salary: £38,479 - £41,632 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours a week
Location: Working from home and any CBC offices, including Priory House, Shefford. You will be expected to attend a CBC office location on a monthly basis, and to undertake site visits and attend meetings as needed to carry out your role.
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permenant
Clsoing Date: 24th November 2024 - We reserve the right to close this advert early if we recieve a high volume of applicaitons, please keep this in mind when submitting your application.
Interview Date: TBC
About the role
The Council’s vision and values are integral to everything we do. Our aim is to make Central Bedfordshire ‘A great place to live and work’. As an Authority we are always striving to deliver high quality developments which take into account our important historic environment from trees and landscape to our cultural heritage. As a Conservation Officer, you’ll find your greatness by acting as a champion of our area’s unique heritage buildings, parklands and landscape.
The Council has an ambitious agenda with significant growth planned over the next 20 years for up to 39,000 homes and 24,000 jobs. We have also recently commenced a new Local Plan for Central Bedfordshire which will likely see further growth planned in the years to come. As a Conservation Officer, you will be part of our multi-disciplinary Technical Skills Team within Strategic Growth, where you will promote our heritage and help the Council meet its vision for the area. You will work closely with our Planning Teams, involved with development management, minerals and waste and strategic plan making.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated skilled Conservation Officer, with a degree (or equivalent) in Conservation and preferably membership of the Chartered Institute of Historic Building Conservation at Associate level or above. You will have a proven record of working in the planning environment, acting as case officer for Listed Building Consent applications and giving advice in a local authority context.
A driving Licence is essential to the role.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
If you would like an informal discussion or more information about these opportunities, please contact: Siobhan Vincent, Technical Skills Team Leader, at siobhan.vincent@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk. or on 0300 300 4346
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