Senior Environmental Education Officer
2 weeks ago
Job description
**Terms and Conditions: Permanent, 37 hours per week.**
**Department: Place**
**Shortlisting date: w/c 25th September**
**Interview date: w/c 2nd October**
Are you passionate about environmental issues? Keen to help implement real change through behaviour change within our Borough?
In addition to managing the existing Environmental Education Officer, you will develop and deliver new and existing services across our communities.
As well as supporting our Keep it Tidy resident volunteers to undertake their various activities, you will also support residents on various service issues, either directly or via other colleagues through a variety of communication methods to educate and inform on effective waste management.
We are looking to recruit someone with proven communication, supervisory and project management skills.
The role will include:
- Managing the work of the Environmental Education Officer
- Working alongside communication colleagues to devise and implement waste-based campaigns, materials and messages to our residents
- Liaising with residents, community groups, Councillors, other colleagues, our collection crews, contractors and others on various waste based programmes
- Attending and/or hosting events to promote waste education and recycling including delivery of workshops and presentations within schools and community settings
- Designing and developing new communication and education resources, whether digital or in print including developing our website content
- Manage our existing waste-based Keep It Tidy volunteer programme of individual and group clean up activities
To excel in this role, you will be enthusastic, confident, creative and passionate about environmental issues (such as waste, recycling, climate change).
You will possess:
- Strong communication and presentation skills in a variety of settings
- Effective supervisory and project management skills including budget management
- Good organisational skills with an eye for detail
- Creative as well as IT literate such as MS Office, social media etc
- Good negoation and influencing skills, idealky with a knowledge of behaviour change techniques
- Ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team
- Understanding of communications and marketing processes
- Experience of working within the waste or wider environmental industry
- Experience of engagement and outreach work with school children and the wider public
The role will require occassional evening or weekend work. Working hours are 37 per week, car mileage will be paid to the successful post holder and whilst the post holder will require their own vehicle, from time to time a Council pool vehicle may be available for the post holder to use.
**Please note that the listing may be closed before the closing date should sufficient applicants have been received.**
**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02107
Date posted
- 02/08/2023
Application closing date
- 22/09/2023
Location
- Blackburn with Darwen
Salary
- Grade F SCP 17-23 £26,845 to £30,151
Package
- Blank
Contractual hours
- 37
Basis
- Full time
Job category/type
- Council
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