Technical Officer
Leicestershire County Council
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid worker
Job Title: Technical Officer
Salary: Grade 8 £27,717- £30,066 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 0.5FTE
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 11th August 2025
Interview Date(s): week commencing Monday 1st September 2025 and week
commencing Monday 8th September
Would you like to join our growing team as a part-time Technical Officer? Would you like to support the team who delivers biodiversity and protected species advice and monitoring across Leicestershire and Rutland?
About the Role
We are seeking a part-time Technical Officer at Grade 8 to support our team, which provides specialist advice and biological records to LPA partners for ecology and biodiversity matters, in relation to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and protected species throughout the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual to add additional technical support capacity. There is already one part-time Technical Officer within the team.
As such, the post holder would provide specialist support to our advice service, from pre-application stage through to discharge of conditions, and will be joining at an exciting time, when we are starting our site monitoring programme, monitoring net gain which is being created on sites throughout the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. The posts will also be supporting our in-house Local Records Centre (LRERC), which is part of our team, for supporting data and records enquiries.
We have further team growth planned for 2025/26. It would be an exciting opportunity for a capable and organised person to be part of our expanding Ecology and Biodiversity Team. We can make more of a difference than ever before, both to the quality of our natural environment and to increasing its connectivity throughout the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland.
About You
To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate:
- NVQ Level 2 or demonstrable experience in working effectively in an office environment
- Experience in providing technical and administrative support to a service or team
- Experience in processing financial or statistical information and working with a range of software packages, including Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience in establishing new administration procedures
- Understanding of the purpose of the town and country planning process
- Writing professional e-mails and letters
- Dealing with enquiries over the phone, by e-mail and in person
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Vanessa Evans Team Manager Ecology and Biodiversity
Telephone: 0116 3057859
Email: [email protected]
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application, which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our
Employee Service Centre: emss.org.uk/support
About Leicestershire County Council
By working for Leicestershire County Council, you will be making a difference to the lives of the people and communities within Leicestershire.
We aim to provide our employees with a positive and supportive work environment that helps them to enjoy a work-life balance and to look after their wellbeing.
By working for Leicestershire County Council, you will be making a difference to the lives of the people and communities within Leicestershire. We aim to provide our employees with a positive and supportive work environment that helps them to enjoy a work-life balance and to look after their wellbeing.
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