Capital Project Support Officer

**About Barnet Council**

Barnet is a borough with much to be proud of. Our excellent schools, vibrant town centres, vast green spaces, and diverse communities all help make it a wonderful place to live and work. As a council we want to build on these strengths as we move into the future. We are growing and developing as an organisation to meet the challenges facing our borough and we are committed to working with partner organisations and residents to make Barnet even better. As an organisation, our staff are committed to Our Values: Caring, Learning to Improve, Inclusive, Collaborate.

**About the Growth Directorate**

We are shaping Barnet as a place to Live, Work, Study and Visit. Through Barnet’s Growth Strategy we are delivering the housing, connectivity, support for businesses and town centres, and social infrastructure needed to sustain and improve local communities. Our Planning, Housing, Regeneration, Economic Development, Estates and Sustainability services are a community of talented people solving the real-world problems and challenges that need to be addressed to deliver change and improve lives. We are delivering this all through many strategic partnerships that collectively form one of the largest development programmes in England

**About the role**

The authority has recognised the need for a dedicated central team to provide high quality, consistent and effective delivery of our Sustainability Programme and is growing an in-house team to do so. The Team will lead, manage and oversee all future activities that will enable us to deliver on our commitments to being Net Zero as an organisation by 2030 and as a borough as soon as possible after this (and by 2042 at the latest).

This is a newly created post responsible for supporting the Council’s ambitious, transformative agenda around Sustainability. It presents an exciting and varied role that will offer the post holder the opportunity to support the Sustainability Team in delivering its ambitious agenda.

The role of Capital Project Support Officer - Sustainability, is to provide business and project support across the Sustainability Portfolio. This will include providing support and coordination across workstreams, managing the forward plan of committees, meetings, and other project activities. You will be responsible for ensuring action logs, performance and other business planning is produced in a timely manner and that updates are provides to relevant stakeholders as required.

**About you**

You will be responsible for ensuring our communication channels (i.e. Yammer, Intranet and Internet Pages) are kept up-to-date; either through the creation of content or ensuring others provide information where needed. To be able to do your job effectively you will have good interpersonal skills and be able to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the organisation.

The post-holder will be a pivotal part of the team in ensuring the ‘wheels keep turning’ and therefore it is essential the post-holder is flexible and happy to support where needed.

**What we offer**
- 30 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
- Access to the**_ _**_Local Government Pension Scheme_**_, _**which provides a valuable guaranteed income in your retirement together with security for your dependents
- Work-life balance options may include hybrid working, flexitime, job share, home working, part-time
- A vast range of lifestyle discounts from major retailers, supermarkets, energy suppliers and more
- Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Employee well
- being training programs including confidential employee assistance

**How to apply**
- Sustainability
- Barnet Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Barnet operates stringent safer recruitment procedures._