Senior Natural Environment Officer

Job Title: Senior Natural Environment Officer
Location: Hybrid - 3 days per week from home and 2 days in the office based in Towcester (NN12)
Hourly Pay Rate: �38.46
Hours: 37 per week (Monday to Friday)
Length of the contract: 13 Weeks
Gi Group are now seeking to appoint an experienced Senior Natural Environment Officer to our client based in Towcester. The Senior Natural Environment Officer will support the provision of appropriate specialist advice on natural environment issues, with a technical specialism in ecology. The Senior Natural Environment Officer will also support the production and maintenance of an up-to-date suite of policy documents to guide and set high standards for future development in the area, including developing, maintaining, and reviewing local plans, neighbourhood plans, and other planning policy documents.
Duties of the Senior Natural Environment Officer

• 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 client.
• 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.
• 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 client's phase 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, as well as other persons and bodies as appropriate in connection with development proposals and related matters in writing, by telephone, and in person.
• To provide a high standard of timely natural environment advice to the development management service and other relevant services.
• To prepare advice on natural environment matters for the Planning Policy and 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 conversation 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.

Role Criteria

• 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.

Hiring Contact: Tiegan Clark
Agency: Gi Group