Sustainable Business Project Support Officer

3 weeks ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

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The uniqueness and beauty of Kent and its high-quality landscapes, resources and assets are greatly valued by residents, businesses and visitors. Here at Kent County Council, we are understandably proud of what we and our partners are doing to protect and enhance the environment and the many social, physical and economic benefits it provides across the wider South and East.

We’re looking for someone with an enthusiastic interest in the environment to join the Sustainable Business Team in an exciting opportunity to work on supporting businesses increase their environmental sustainability. Kent County Council leads on the implementation of the Kent Environment Strategy, which brings together partners across sectors to support economic growth while protecting and enhancing Kent’s natural and historic environment and supporting communities to be vibrant, healthy and resilient as Kent faces unprecedented growth and change over the coming decades.

We have a European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF) - funded project, Low Carbon Across the South and East 3 (LoCASE 3) which provides a consistent, accessible business support programme across multiple Local Enterprise Partnerships across the South and East, helping businesses to optimise the use of resources and adopt eco-innovative and low carbon solutions in ways that improve business performance in terms of resilience, profitability and competitiveness, at the same time contributing to the protection and preservation of the environment.

We are looking for a well-organised administrator with a strong background in successful business support to undertake this role, as there are many processes and procedures that the project needs to follow to ensure quality delivery. You will have excellent organisation and administrative skills, will need to be an excellent communicator as they will be working with people at different levels across a wide range of organisations, and excellent computer skills (Word, Excel, etc).

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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