Senior Technical Officer
Cornwall Council
Date: 1 day ago
City: Truro, England
Contract type: Full time
Job Description
The Service & Team:
Are you a motivated individual looking for a rewarding and exciting new opportunity? We are seeking a new Senior Technical Officer in Regulatory Services to join our Public Rights of Way Team.
If you are passionate about the natural environment, public access, and mapping the rights of way network, then this is the job for you. The Public Rights of Way Team is seeking to appoint an organised, adaptable and enthusiastic person to help us to manage our business support processes.
The Role
As a Senior Technical Officer, you will:
This is a full-time (37 hours per week), permanent position, primarily based at New County Hall, with a starting salary of £25,772 per annum. You will receive on the job training and mentoring, as well as opportunities for further development and progression within the Council. You will also enjoy a range of benefits, such as flexible working, pension scheme, and discounts on local attractions and services.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
To be eligible for this role, you must:
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact the Public Rights of Way Team Leader at [email protected]
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
The Service & Team:
Are you a motivated individual looking for a rewarding and exciting new opportunity? We are seeking a new Senior Technical Officer in Regulatory Services to join our Public Rights of Way Team.
If you are passionate about the natural environment, public access, and mapping the rights of way network, then this is the job for you. The Public Rights of Way Team is seeking to appoint an organised, adaptable and enthusiastic person to help us to manage our business support processes.
The Role
As a Senior Technical Officer, you will:
- Develop knowledge and understanding of how our Public Rights of Way system operates.
- Be working with our dedicated team helping them to plan, prioritise and support delivery for a high volume of tasks.
- Acting as a first point of contact via telephone, electronically or face to face helping to respond to public enquiries, complaints, and requests relating to the rights of way, providing information and advice.
- Offer administrative support for a wide range of rights of way functions providing assistance with processing legal applications involving changes to the path network including consultations and notices.
- Keep the PROW and Commons & Greens webpages up to date, including redacting and publishing officer reports.
- Help to arrange venues and prepare documents for Public Inquiries and Hearings.
- Act with tact and diplomacy and be able to demonstrate discretion around confidential and sensitive information.
This is a full-time (37 hours per week), permanent position, primarily based at New County Hall, with a starting salary of £25,772 per annum. You will receive on the job training and mentoring, as well as opportunities for further development and progression within the Council. You will also enjoy a range of benefits, such as flexible working, pension scheme, and discounts on local attractions and services.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
To be eligible for this role, you must:
- Have a keen interest in the natural environment, public access and mapping.
- Be able to demonstrate a high level of IT literacy as well as administrative processes and activities.
- Provide evidence of working in a regulatory/office environment.
- Have good communication skills.
- Have five GCSEs at grade 5 or above (or equivalent), including English and Maths.
- Ideally hold NVQ Level 3 in a relevant subject (Business Administration or Customer Care or IAG) or have at least 3 years recent experience of working in an office environment.
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
- a competitive salary.
- a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
- a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
- Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact the Public Rights of Way Team Leader at [email protected]
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
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