Overview
As a Sustainable Infrastructure & Resilience Officer, you too can make a powerful contribution. As part of the Council’s Highways Services, you’ll play a vital role in the delivery and management of our climate resilience objectives. You’ll help us to build a sustainable, highly effective organisation and develop our reputation as a successful council that delivers great value for its residents. You will support a range of exciting strategic and hands-on projects, aimed at reducing the risk of flooding across the borough as set out in the council’s Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS).
Seeing through climate resilience objectives – including flooding – will be a top priority for you. You will lead and provide support on key projects and initiatives, creating clear project plans for all. You’ll be responsible for identifying funding opportunities, allocating budgets, and ensuring that spend and income is effectively managed. Plus, you’ll track progress through regular reports on key performance indicators. Identifying and managing risks will be key to your role too. You’ll keep on top of relevant legal, regulatory and policy requirements; advising when new legislation could impact your work. We’d like you to monitor and challenge quality standards, always striving to improve and be more innovative.
Effective collaboration across service providers and stakeholders will be critical to a successful service. You’ll also engage with our communities, including residents who have experienced flooding. At times, you’ll deputise for the manager and cover for other team members. You’ll also represent the city council to external groups.
In joining us, you’ll become part of a team where everyone is encouraged to show up as themselves and share ideas. We’d like you to embody our council values and behaviours, evolving and embracing opportunities as a member of the team.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
To be fit for the role, you’ll have a background in flood risk management, or similar. You’ll have an awareness of the Flood & Water Management Act 2010.
As well as sector experience, you’ll have delivered change to a team or organisation before. You’ve contributed to policy, analysis, advised and briefed stakeholders. Proactive about improvement, you’ve identified new opportunities.
You’ll be comfortable managing budgets, producing notes and reports, and delivering projects to time and budget. Plus, you’re adept at overcoming obstacles to achieve a goal, including identifying and resolving issues speedily. You can offer technical advice to help others.
Collaboration is core to how you work. Whether that’s with stakeholders or to better understand customer needs. You’re committed to equality and diversity, both as a leader and service deliverer.
You’ll be able to use Microsoft packages Word, Excel and PowerPoint to a good standard.
To be a true asset to our team, you’ll invest time in personal development, encouraging others to do the same.
We’d like for you to be degree educated (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
