Landscape Officer

**Landscape Officer**

**£37,236-£40,674 per annum 37 Hours per week**
**Permanent**
**Witney/Agile**

**Are you passionate about protecting and enhancing the landscape within West Oxfordshire?**

An exciting opportunity to join our West Oxfordshire District Council as a Landscape Officer. You will be pivotal, on providing high quality and robust landscape and green infrastructure advice, in order to conserve and enhance our landscape, whilst delivering positive environmental outcomes, aligned with our climate change and sustainability priorities, across the area.

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

Our environmental service is fundamental to the success of the council’s ambition for a sustainable future. We are passionate about leading on our climate and ecological emergencies in the area. From the Salt Cross Garden Village strategic development area to the development of a new world class car museum at Enstone, our focus is to enable our communities in the Oxfordshire district and beyond to thrive, creating great places for people to live, work, learn and enjoy in our ever-evolving communities.

We want our future generations to be able to enjoy and benefit from the beautiful landscape of the district. Now is a fantastic time to be joining us. We are looking to deliver upon our council priorities and shape our environment for the benefit of the local area and beyond.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Landscape Officer to join the team, to provide high quality landscape and green infrastructure advice on planning proposals and on allocations and policies in the Local Plan, ensuring that we protect and enhance our valuable landscapes and that new accessible and multi-functional green infrastructure is created and maintained.

You will work with a variety of different stakeholders or partnerships, including the Cotswold National Landscape Board, developers, planning agents and applicants, landscape consultants, local communities, and other customers. You will be vital in creating sustainable, positive outcomes, across the area, through a forward thinking and practical solutions based approach.

**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 landscape and green infrastructure, particularly those relevant to the planning system; for example landscape design; landscape character assessment; historic landscapes; protected landscapes; GI strategies, policies/legislation and landscape management.
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent to grade C/4 or higher
- Experience of working flexibly as part of a team and collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders

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

**Special Conditions**
- Full Driving License & access to a vehicle

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)_
- 26 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays, which increases to 29 days after five years’ service and 32 days following 10 years’ continuous service
- In addition you will have an extra two volunteering days 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
- Generous contributory local government pension scheme
- 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

Terms and conditions apply

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