Senior Suds and Flood Risk Officer - Huntingdon, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council

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Huntingdon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About the role
Are you looking for an opportunity to build or further your career in flood risk management?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior SuDS and Flood Risk Officer to join the Flood Risk Team at Cambridgeshire County Council.

The team leads the Council's role as Lead Local Flood Authority, working with partners to investigate and deliver innovative local flood risk management projects across Cambridgeshire, improve the water environment, and provide technical engineering-based advice on surface water management for new developments.

What will you be doing?

Support the LLFA to ensure the delivery of high quality SuDS schemes across Cambridgeshire through providing specialist advice, working closely with, and supporting developers, consultants, engineers and Local Planning Authorities
Form close working partnerships with key stakeholders across Cambridgeshire to work to reduce flood risk throughout the County
Work with local communities to help them prepare for and respond to flooding as well as investigating flood incidents in partnership with other risk management authorities

About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who is:

Confident in assessing complex and technical drainage information and plans against national legislation, local policies, guidance and best practice
Able to provide drainage and flood risk management advice from a regulatory perspective
Able to make informed and independent decisions with mínimal supervision
Proactive and show initiative to develop new ideas
Manage workload effectively to meet strict deadlines while being a part of a dynamic and busy team
Clear and confident in communicating complex information sensitively to a wide range of audiences
Ability to negotiate with developers and stakeholders to ensure the continued delivery of high quality outputs
Be computer literate with experience in GIS systems and using databases

In return we can offer a varied workload, training and support to further increase your technical competence.

Cambridgeshire County Council offers flexible working arrangements, a local government pension and a comprehensive package of staff benefits including savings on big name brands and independent stores; Cycle 2 Work and The Car Benefit scheme.

The role is 'hybrid' which means there is flexibility on where you can work. Options include working from home, our office at New Shire Hall (Alconbury Weald) and other offices across the County.

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.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

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: