Senior Conservation and Retrofit Officer

6 months ago


Cirencester, United Kingdom Publica Full time

**Are you motivated by the reward of delivering on our climate, environmental and heritage priorities?**

An exceptional opportunity to join Cotswold District Council as a Senior Conservation and Retrofit Officer. You will be pivotal in providing high quality and robust conservation and retrofit advice, in order to promote and deliver sustainability while ensuring that our precious historic environment is enhanced and protected. You will be the first person in this new and innovative role - shaping how the historic buildings of the District adapt to and mitigate the climate and ecological emergencies.

This permanent role offers the flexibility of working within the offices at Cirencester and agile working, allowing you that extra freedom and work life balance.

**Are you passionate about driving positive sustainable outcomes decarbonising and increasing the energy efficiency of the historic environment in the Cotswolds? If so, we would love to hear from you.**

Our Heritage and Design Service is fundamental to the success of the Council’s ambition for a sustainable future - protecting and enhancing the best of the past, while looking to the future and addressing the climate and ecological emergencies. The Service is involved in a wide range of development projects, as well as drafting new conservation, design and retrofit Local Plan policies. Our focus is to enable our communities in the Cotswold district and beyond to thrive, creating great places for people to live, work, learn and enjoy in our ever-evolving communities.

As a Senior Conservation and Retrofit Officer, you will lead in collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, including property owners, developers, Historic England and other partners, to protect and enhance the unique natural, historic and built environment of the Cotswolds, while ensuring we meet the challenges of the future..

You will also prepare retrofit guidance for the owners of historic buildings and provide training in retrofit and decarbonisation. In order to do this, you will need a flexible but robust approach and to work together effectively to create positive change.

You will need
- A postgraduate qualification in your area of expertise and/or relevant experience of at least five years
- High level of knowledge, understanding and experience of all aspects of conservation and retrofit/decarbonisation of historic buildings, particularly those relevant to the planning system
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience of being involved in continuously improving services and developing products to meet customer need.
- Ability to resolve complex issues.

**Special Conditions**
- Ability to travel and Full UK Driving Licence

For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification.

**What can we do for you**
- Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
- Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role)
- 27 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays and an extra two volunteering days off a year for you to support a charity of your choice
- Renewed again for another year there is a Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
- Pension scheme with a good employer contribution of 5% of your earnings
- Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with significant tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars
- Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements
- Additional income protection, covering 50% of your salary for potentially a further five years if you are unable to work due to sickness or injury
- Life assurance, currently four times your annual salary

These are just a handful of the benefits that you can enjoy when you join us

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