Climate Policy Officer

Hours: 37 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Service Area: Planning (with link to Sustainability)

Department: Sustainable Communities

Bath & North East Somerset Council has made action on the climate and ecological emergency its top policy priority and aims to be a leading local authority in delivering on this commitment and on achieving a truly green recovery from the pandemic. We are rapidly expanding our staffing to enable us to rise to this challenge. We are seeking talented individuals who share our ambition to ensure a fair and green future for all our people and places.

The Climate Policy Officer is a new role within our Planning Policy team, linked to our strategic Sustainability team, and is designed to support development of climate-friendly planning policy and guidance, with an emphasis on the built environment such as: zero carbon new build; energy efficiency retrofitting and renewable energy. The role will also involve policy advice to other built environment services.

For more information about our team, please visit: https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/climate-emergency

This role offers the opportunity for blended working and the post-holder will be expected to spend part of their week working from home.  Office time will be mainly spent in our award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible on public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.

To apply:

Please use the online application facility.

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Interested to find out more?

If you are interested in this post and require more details, after reading the job description, or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Jane Wildblood by emailing jane_wildblood@bathnes.gov.uk.

Interview date: Thursday 5th August 2021.

As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register.  This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.