MAIDSTONE BOROUGH COUNCIL Biodiversity and Climate Change Engagement Officer Location: Maidstone, Kent Contract: Permanent Full Time Salary : £30,468 - £33,051 per annum About the Role Are you passionate about addressing the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change? Do you have experience in relationship building, event organisation, and engagement with residents, local organisations, and businesses? If so, Maidstone Borough Council invite you to apply for this important role. The purpose of this role is to support community engagement for climate, biodiversity, and waste reduction projects. This is an interdepartmental role working between the climate and biodiversity, parks and open spaces, and waste management teams at Maidstone Borough Council. You will support and drive a wide range of sustainability topics, from public transportation and active travel, to carbon literacy training and net zero targets. You will be responsible for leading the delivery of the Council s communications and stakeholder engagement, events, campaigns and educational initiatives for climate, sustainability, environment, and waste reduction. Including organising awareness raising events and outreach with schools and community groups, to support residents to understand the changes they can make to mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change in line with the Council s Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan. About Maidstone Borough Council Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses. We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy. We continue to build on our strengths - assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans. We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people. You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us. We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well. At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council. We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return. As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance. Our Offer: A range of benefits including: • Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities • 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles • Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave • Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year • Free parking • Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people s home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight, part time • Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities • Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family • Life Assurance three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS) • Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work • Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing, and road tax • Annual flu vaccine • Cycle to work scheme • Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping • Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals • A professional fee payment, if required for the role About You: Degree level in an environmental discipline or relevant/equivalent discipline with knowledge of the climate change and sustainability agenda is essential. Experience of working in a similar education/training/promotional role with the public or private sector or voluntary organisation is desirable. The role will be required to support and help manage groups of volunteers to deliver the objectives of projects. The Council considers this to be a public focused role and the ability to converse at ease with different strata of the public, adapting your communication style to suit differing audiences and provide advice is fundamental to the role. This is an important time to be involved in biodiversity and climate change, a high-profile issue. Through this role, you will have good exposure to different departments, build relationships with external residents, voluntary and business organisations, and work with councillors on tangible solutions to addressing biodiversity loss and climate change impacts. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. Selection Process: Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect a job specific interview assessment, and an interview. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Anna Collier, Head of Insight, Communities & Governance at annacollier(at)maidstone.gov.uk Closing Date: 10 May 2024. Interview date: 20 May 2024. TO APPLY PLEASE CLICK THE "APPLY NOW" BUTTON AND YOU WILL BE REDIRECTED TO BEGIN THE APPLICATION PROCES
May 05, 2024
Full time
MAIDSTONE BOROUGH COUNCIL Biodiversity and Climate Change Engagement Officer Location: Maidstone, Kent Contract: Permanent Full Time Salary : £30,468 - £33,051 per annum About the Role Are you passionate about addressing the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change? Do you have experience in relationship building, event organisation, and engagement with residents, local organisations, and businesses? If so, Maidstone Borough Council invite you to apply for this important role. The purpose of this role is to support community engagement for climate, biodiversity, and waste reduction projects. This is an interdepartmental role working between the climate and biodiversity, parks and open spaces, and waste management teams at Maidstone Borough Council. You will support and drive a wide range of sustainability topics, from public transportation and active travel, to carbon literacy training and net zero targets. You will be responsible for leading the delivery of the Council s communications and stakeholder engagement, events, campaigns and educational initiatives for climate, sustainability, environment, and waste reduction. Including organising awareness raising events and outreach with schools and community groups, to support residents to understand the changes they can make to mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change in line with the Council s Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan. About Maidstone Borough Council Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses. We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy. We continue to build on our strengths - assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans. We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people. You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us. We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well. At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council. We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return. As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance. Our Offer: A range of benefits including: • Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities • 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles • Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave • Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year • Free parking • Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people s home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight, part time • Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities • Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family • Life Assurance three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS) • Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work • Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing, and road tax • Annual flu vaccine • Cycle to work scheme • Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping • Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals • A professional fee payment, if required for the role About You: Degree level in an environmental discipline or relevant/equivalent discipline with knowledge of the climate change and sustainability agenda is essential. Experience of working in a similar education/training/promotional role with the public or private sector or voluntary organisation is desirable. The role will be required to support and help manage groups of volunteers to deliver the objectives of projects. The Council considers this to be a public focused role and the ability to converse at ease with different strata of the public, adapting your communication style to suit differing audiences and provide advice is fundamental to the role. This is an important time to be involved in biodiversity and climate change, a high-profile issue. Through this role, you will have good exposure to different departments, build relationships with external residents, voluntary and business organisations, and work with councillors on tangible solutions to addressing biodiversity loss and climate change impacts. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. Selection Process: Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect a job specific interview assessment, and an interview. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Anna Collier, Head of Insight, Communities & Governance at annacollier(at)maidstone.gov.uk Closing Date: 10 May 2024. Interview date: 20 May 2024. TO APPLY PLEASE CLICK THE "APPLY NOW" BUTTON AND YOU WILL BE REDIRECTED TO BEGIN THE APPLICATION PROCES
MAIDSTONE BOROUGH COUNCIL Biodiversity and Climate Change Engagement Officer Location: Maidstone, Kent Contract: Permanent - Full Time Salary: £30,468 - £33,051 per annum About the Role Are you passionate about addressing the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change? Do you have experience in relationship building, event organisation, and engagement with residents, local organisations, and businesses? If so, Maidstone Borough Council invite you to apply for this important role. The purpose of this role is to support community engagement for climate, biodiversity, and waste reduction projects. This is an interdepartmental role working between the climate and biodiversity, parks and open spaces, and waste management teams at Maidstone Borough Council. You will support and drive a wide range of sustainability topics, from public transportation and active travel, to carbon literacy training and net zero targets. You will be responsible for leading the delivery of the Council's communications and stakeholder engagement, events, campaigns and educational initiatives for climate, sustainability, environment, and waste reduction. Including organising awareness raising events and outreach with schools and community groups, to support residents to understand the changes they can make to mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change in line with the Council's Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan. About Maidstone Borough Council Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses. We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy. We continue to build on our strengths - assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans. We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people. You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us. We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well. At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council. We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return. As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance. Our Offer: A range of benefits including: • Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities • 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles • Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave • Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year • Free parking • Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people's home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight, part time • Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities • Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family • Life Assurance - three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS) • Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work • Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing, and road tax • Annual flu vaccine • Cycle to work scheme • Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping • Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals • A professional fee payment, if required for the role About You: Degree level in an environmental discipline or relevant/equivalent discipline with knowledge of the climate change and sustainability agenda is essential. Experience of working in a similar education/training/promotional role with the public or private sector or voluntary organisation is desirable. The role will be required to support and help manage groups of volunteers to deliver the objectives of projects. The Council considers this to be a public focused role and the ability to converse at ease with different strata of the public, adapting your communication style to suit differing audiences and provide advice is fundamental to the role. This is an important time to be involved in biodiversity and climate change, a high-profile issue. Through this role, you will have good exposure to different departments, build relationships with external residents, voluntary and business organisations, and work with councillors on tangible solutions to addressing biodiversity loss and climate change impacts. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. Selection Process: Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect a job specific interview assessment, and an interview. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Anna Collier, Head of Insight, Communities & Governance at Closing Date: 10 May 2024. Interview date: 20 May 2024.
May 02, 2024
Full time
MAIDSTONE BOROUGH COUNCIL Biodiversity and Climate Change Engagement Officer Location: Maidstone, Kent Contract: Permanent - Full Time Salary: £30,468 - £33,051 per annum About the Role Are you passionate about addressing the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change? Do you have experience in relationship building, event organisation, and engagement with residents, local organisations, and businesses? If so, Maidstone Borough Council invite you to apply for this important role. The purpose of this role is to support community engagement for climate, biodiversity, and waste reduction projects. This is an interdepartmental role working between the climate and biodiversity, parks and open spaces, and waste management teams at Maidstone Borough Council. You will support and drive a wide range of sustainability topics, from public transportation and active travel, to carbon literacy training and net zero targets. You will be responsible for leading the delivery of the Council's communications and stakeholder engagement, events, campaigns and educational initiatives for climate, sustainability, environment, and waste reduction. Including organising awareness raising events and outreach with schools and community groups, to support residents to understand the changes they can make to mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change in line with the Council's Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan. About Maidstone Borough Council Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses. We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy. We continue to build on our strengths - assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans. We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people. You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us. We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well. At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council. We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return. As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance. Our Offer: A range of benefits including: • Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities • 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles • Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave • Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year • Free parking • Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people's home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight, part time • Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities • Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family • Life Assurance - three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS) • Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work • Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing, and road tax • Annual flu vaccine • Cycle to work scheme • Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping • Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals • A professional fee payment, if required for the role About You: Degree level in an environmental discipline or relevant/equivalent discipline with knowledge of the climate change and sustainability agenda is essential. Experience of working in a similar education/training/promotional role with the public or private sector or voluntary organisation is desirable. The role will be required to support and help manage groups of volunteers to deliver the objectives of projects. The Council considers this to be a public focused role and the ability to converse at ease with different strata of the public, adapting your communication style to suit differing audiences and provide advice is fundamental to the role. This is an important time to be involved in biodiversity and climate change, a high-profile issue. Through this role, you will have good exposure to different departments, build relationships with external residents, voluntary and business organisations, and work with councillors on tangible solutions to addressing biodiversity loss and climate change impacts. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. Selection Process: Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect a job specific interview assessment, and an interview. Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment. If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Anna Collier, Head of Insight, Communities & Governance at Closing Date: 10 May 2024. Interview date: 20 May 2024.
Climate Change Adaptation Officer Salary: £31,000 - £35,000 Contract type: Permanent Working hours: Full time Location: Callow Rock, Shipham Gorge, Cheddar As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report laid out in March 2023, we are now on the brink of irrevocable damage from climate change; this is our 'final warning' and the time is now for action to address this crisis. The report highlighted that restoring nature was one of the key actions needed to address this issue. Our client, a wildlife charity are at the forefront of this work in Somerset and are fully committed to this path through their Wilder Somerset 2030 Strategy and to delivering a vision whereby we reverse biodiversity loss and tackle the climate crisis. Developing and further embedding the 'Act to Adapt' process, through their 'Adapting Somerset' and 'Somerset's Wilder Coast' projects to support communities and to develop plans to adapt their local areas to the impacts of climate change. Responsibility 1: Providing leadership and technical expertise Being proactive and nurture strong relationships by: Providing leadership on their Climate Change Nature Adaptation work. Working closely with the Local Nature Partnership Coordinator and Advocacy Manager, and wider project team from partner organisations, to develop and deliver a programme of online and in-person communications, meetings and workshops. This is designed to foster climate change adaptation in the county supporting nature's recovery and community resilience, and therefore involves working closely with farmers and landowners, all layers of local council, infrastructure experts, academics and the general public, including communities already impacted by flooding. Providing line management to the Climate Adaptation Assistant. Continuing developing the RAD approach for priority habitats, alongside the Landscape Recovery team, which will contribute to managing land within internationally important wetlands. Keeping abreast of national and international climate change developments and relate these to Somerset. Responsibility 2: Engagement with Communities and Creating Robust Partnerships Lead engagement efforts by: Contributing to discussions and workstreams developing climate change adaptation pathways at a county level, and in specific local areas relating to flooding, drought and wildfire. Developing information for a lay audience regarding the role of nature in reducing the impacts of climate change, including: sea-level rise; predicted changes in land use; warming, etc. and to help people understand what the future may bring especially in Somerset's more vulnerable nature habitats. Supporting people's wider understanding of the role of nature to mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration and storage. Continuing the rollout of the Act to Adapt process in local communities, organising events and workshops and using the Climate Adaptation Toolkit to explain the process of developing community and nature based solutions to the big issues of climate change. Responsibility 3: Developing sustainable projects and evaluation Lead and support projects and reporting by: Working with the Somerset Local Nature Recovery Strategy team to incorporate climate adaptation and vulnerability principles to these priorities. Assisting with work to share information and project developments with project partners in the UK. Developing and implement a communications plan that raises awareness of the project and its impact; garners support; and highlights Somerset as a place at the frontline for climate change. This will include engagement through social media and the production of awareness materials in printed and online formats. Managing the budget of the Adapting Somerset project and keep track of time contributions to the ELM's Landscape Recovery and Somerset's Wilder Coast projects. Monitoring and evaluating progress and impact, meeting project milestones and reporting to funders. Representing the charity externally in meetings, in the media and by giving presentations to various audiences. Closing date: Wednesday 15 May 2024. Application Process: To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position. This charity is an Equal opportunities employer and they are dedicated to building a culturally diverse organisation where people are committed to working in an enabling environment. They encourage applications from women, minority groups and people with disabilities. No agencies please.
May 01, 2024
Full time
Climate Change Adaptation Officer Salary: £31,000 - £35,000 Contract type: Permanent Working hours: Full time Location: Callow Rock, Shipham Gorge, Cheddar As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report laid out in March 2023, we are now on the brink of irrevocable damage from climate change; this is our 'final warning' and the time is now for action to address this crisis. The report highlighted that restoring nature was one of the key actions needed to address this issue. Our client, a wildlife charity are at the forefront of this work in Somerset and are fully committed to this path through their Wilder Somerset 2030 Strategy and to delivering a vision whereby we reverse biodiversity loss and tackle the climate crisis. Developing and further embedding the 'Act to Adapt' process, through their 'Adapting Somerset' and 'Somerset's Wilder Coast' projects to support communities and to develop plans to adapt their local areas to the impacts of climate change. Responsibility 1: Providing leadership and technical expertise Being proactive and nurture strong relationships by: Providing leadership on their Climate Change Nature Adaptation work. Working closely with the Local Nature Partnership Coordinator and Advocacy Manager, and wider project team from partner organisations, to develop and deliver a programme of online and in-person communications, meetings and workshops. This is designed to foster climate change adaptation in the county supporting nature's recovery and community resilience, and therefore involves working closely with farmers and landowners, all layers of local council, infrastructure experts, academics and the general public, including communities already impacted by flooding. Providing line management to the Climate Adaptation Assistant. Continuing developing the RAD approach for priority habitats, alongside the Landscape Recovery team, which will contribute to managing land within internationally important wetlands. Keeping abreast of national and international climate change developments and relate these to Somerset. Responsibility 2: Engagement with Communities and Creating Robust Partnerships Lead engagement efforts by: Contributing to discussions and workstreams developing climate change adaptation pathways at a county level, and in specific local areas relating to flooding, drought and wildfire. Developing information for a lay audience regarding the role of nature in reducing the impacts of climate change, including: sea-level rise; predicted changes in land use; warming, etc. and to help people understand what the future may bring especially in Somerset's more vulnerable nature habitats. Supporting people's wider understanding of the role of nature to mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration and storage. Continuing the rollout of the Act to Adapt process in local communities, organising events and workshops and using the Climate Adaptation Toolkit to explain the process of developing community and nature based solutions to the big issues of climate change. Responsibility 3: Developing sustainable projects and evaluation Lead and support projects and reporting by: Working with the Somerset Local Nature Recovery Strategy team to incorporate climate adaptation and vulnerability principles to these priorities. Assisting with work to share information and project developments with project partners in the UK. Developing and implement a communications plan that raises awareness of the project and its impact; garners support; and highlights Somerset as a place at the frontline for climate change. This will include engagement through social media and the production of awareness materials in printed and online formats. Managing the budget of the Adapting Somerset project and keep track of time contributions to the ELM's Landscape Recovery and Somerset's Wilder Coast projects. Monitoring and evaluating progress and impact, meeting project milestones and reporting to funders. Representing the charity externally in meetings, in the media and by giving presentations to various audiences. Closing date: Wednesday 15 May 2024. Application Process: To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position. This charity is an Equal opportunities employer and they are dedicated to building a culturally diverse organisation where people are committed to working in an enabling environment. They encourage applications from women, minority groups and people with disabilities. No agencies please.