Hours: 37 per hour
Contract Type: Permanent
Service Area: Place Management
Department: Neighbourhood Environmental Services
Are you enthusiastic, resourceful and relish the challenge of playing a vital role in developing our services, then why not join our team?
We are seeking a Technical Support and Projects Officer to join our strategy team.
In providing a high level of technical support to strategic and operational managers, you will be instrumental in delivering initiatives and projects designed to improve our services and the local environment. Leading on communications to ensure full engagement in our services.
You will have excellent communication skills. The role will require you to work closely with our operational teams, our residents, local businesses, along with a wide range of partners to help shape our services.
As a key member of the team, you will be flexible with a ‘can do’ attitude. You will be able to work independently, as well as part of a team and be able to manage your own workload.
In return, we offer an opportunity to experience working on a range of projects and with various departments across the Council.
Our team is based in the award winning Civic Centre in Keynsham, but we also work flexibly, including from home and our depots, and cover the whole of Bath and North East Somerset.
Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.
Why B&NES Council?
We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:
• A competitive salary package
• A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
• A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
• The Local Government Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
• Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
• Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Lisa Gore, Waste Strategy and Project Delivery Manager ,Lisa_Gore@Bathnes.gov.uk
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To apply
Please use the online application facility.
For further information on applying please see “Application Form Help” page on the Jobs website.
Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.
Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.
As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Interview Date: 4th January 2024
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.
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