Natural Environment Officer

3 weeks ago


Chester, United Kingdom Cheshire West and Chester Council Full time

**Organisation**
- Cheshire West and Chester Council

**Location**
- Chester

**Job Category**
- Environmental and Public Services

**Grade**
- CWAC NJC - Grade 9

**Salary Min**
- £35,745 per annum

**Salary Max**
- £39,186 per annum

**Hours per week**
- 37

**Weeks per year**
- 52.143

**Employment Type**
- Fixed Term

**Contract Duration**
- 10 -12months

**Closing Date**
- 24/05/2024

**Ref No**
- W3362

**Documents**
- Natural Environment Officer.pdf
(PDF, 200.14kb)

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

You join us at an exciting time as our biodiversity work expands, our team is creating landscape scale habitats on Council and partner land for Biodiversity Net Gain, responding to the Council's Nature Emergency and developing a pipeline of investment opportunities as we lead the development of a Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Cheshire.

You will have excellent technical knowledge, great communication and problem-solving skills to regulate Biodiversity Net Gain as part of development. Good botany skills would be beneficial, with working knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain and experience using Defra's metric. Ideally you will hold CIEEM membership, Bat and/or GCN licenses and have experience undertaking surveys and supervising works affecting protected species.

Although this post is to provide maternity cover, the team is in a period growth for both the regulatory and habitat delivery services it provides, so this role could potentially lead to other opportunities.

Cheshire West and Chester Council brings a fresh and energetic approach to providing top quality services for its many customers and communities. West Cheshire is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £12 per hour for all contracted hours.



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