Salary: £32,909 - £34,723
Location: New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Contract type: Full time
Closing date: 26/03/2023
Job reference: Ref/234/1206
About the role
Are you looking for an opportunity to build or further your career in flood risk management?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior SuDS and Flood Risk Officer to join the Flood Risk Team at Cambridgeshire County Council. The team leads the Council’s role as Lead Local Flood Authority, working with partners to investigate and deliver innovative local flood risk management projects across Cambridgeshire, improve the water environment, and provide technical engineering-based advice on surface water management for new developments.
The Sustainable Drainage and Flood Risk part of the team act as the statutory consultee for surface water drainage on all major planning applications, ensuring safe and sustainable development across the County. We are a busy team, providing comment on over 1,000 planning applications per year, as well as being involved in pre-application advice discussions and contributing to Local Plans and Policy.
We can offer a varied workload, training and support to further increase your technical competence. Cambridgeshire County Council offers flexible working arrangements, a local government pension and a comprehensive package of staff benefits including savings on big name brands and independent stores, Cycle 2 Work and The Car Benefit scheme.
The role is hybrid, which means there is flexibility on where you can work. Options include working from home, our office at New Shire Hall (Alconbury Weald) and other offices across the county.
If you would like an informal discussion or have any questions about the role please contact either Harry Pickford at Harry.Pickford@Cambridgeshire.gov.uk or 07469 377536, or Hilary Tandy at Hilary.Tandy@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or 07500 063286.
Interviews will be held during the week commencing 3rd April, at New Shire Hall in Alconbury. However there is the potential for flexibility if this would be difficult for you, so please do apply if you think this may be the job for you.
The successful candidate will become an important part of the team to assist in achieving our statutory role and will:
Testimonial from one of our current staff members: “Working within the SuDS and Flood Risk team has given me the chance to learn a whole new way of thinking, with full training being provided by the other members of the team and external organisations. This job allows me to have a good work-life balance and there is enough flexibility with working patterns that I can continue to pursue my outside hobbies and interests.”
A recent new starter had this to say about joining our team:
“Being a new starter myself I can vouch that there is an immediate sense of welcome and cohesion within the team, I find that the job has many different aspects to it which in turn means there is always something different to focus on. Having an environmental background means that I find the work very interesting.”
To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who is:
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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