Senior Flood Risk Officer - Alconbury, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council

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Alconbury, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the role

We have a brand new opportunity to work as a Senior Flood Risk Officer on flood resilience projects across Cambridgeshire.

The Flood Risk team sits within the Natural and Historic Environment Service to deliver a varied programme of flood resilience work across the county, working closely with partner organisations and communities.

This is a two year fixed term role with the potential for extension depending on funding.

You can hear more about working in the flood risk team here

Interviews will take place in-person at New Shire Hall during the week of 1st July 2024.

What will you be doing?

We have seen an increasing amount of flooding across Cambridgeshire in recent years and as a Lead Local Flood Authority we are looking at ways we can manage this to reduce the frequency and severity in the future.

We are in the fortunate position of having a dedicated flood risk management programme running for the next two years to develop a programme of schemes in collaboration with other partner organisations.

Natural Flood Management schemes
Sustainable drainage retrofit
Watercourse restoration
Water level telemetry
Property Flood Resilience

In addition to the above there will be the opportunity to get involved with all aspects of the team's work including flood investigations and enforcement, land drainage consenting and community engagement.

About you

You will have experience working in the flood risk management sector, ideally having had previous involvement in project management and delivery.

This means you'll have an understanding of the different sources of flooding across Cambridgeshire and knowledge of relevant policies, strategies and guidance documents.

You will need to work closely with internal colleagues and external partner organisations to deliver actions and projects within our Local Flood Risk Management Strategy.

This means you will need to have practical knowledge of working and negotiating with stakeholders and the ability to build networks of contacts, maintaining effective relationships across a variety of organisations.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.

We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits: