About the role: Are you passionate about the environment and good with people? We need you on our team… We are looking to recruit a new waste awareness and enforcement advisor to help encourage people in mid-Powys to make good choices, reduce the amount of rubbish they generate and recycle as much as possible. Your job will involve getting out and about undertaking community engagement and educating people to recycle more, this may include door knocking, home visits, attending events, school visits and activities to promote reducing, reusing and recycling initiatives. Where necessary this may also involve taking legal action against people who dispose of waste inappropriately, helping us to clamp down on littering and fly tipping and make Powys even cleaner and greener. This is the perfect job for those who enjoy getting out and about, engaging with communities and making a positive contribution towards helping to protect people and the planet. About you: • passionate about environmental issues • knowledgeable about recycling and waste prevention • experienced in dealing with members of the public, face to face • you will have excellent interpersonal skills and significant experience of undertaking a public facing role with high levels of customer service, especially face to face, dealing with all local enquiries, complaints, community engagement and events for the service. This can include high levels of confidentiality dealing with personal information from customers in need of additional support and undertaking criminal enforcement investigations and some enquiries which may be politically sensitive and come with a high degree of customer expectation around a highly visible, popular, statutory service. What you will do: • Undertake marketing activities to encourage residents to reduce the amount of rubbish they produce • Undertake home visits and waste audits to help people to recycle more • Helping to deliver receptacles to encourage people to recycle more • Undertake community engagement activities to promote uptake of the service • Undertake enforcement activities, where necessary to correct inappropriate behaviour This position has a requirement for a Basic Check and to complete pre-employment checks aligned with the Baseline Personal Security Standard Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .