Job Description
* East Suffolk Council
* Address: East Suffolk House, Melton, Woodbridge IP12 1RT and Riverside, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0EQ
* Salary: £31,537 - £42,839 (Band 5/7 Career Grade)
* Hours: 37 hours per week
* Contract: Permanent
East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work, delivering essential local services and making a real difference to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.
We have an opportunity to join our Design and Heritage team within the Planning and Building Control Service at either Assistant Heritage Officer or Heritage Officer level. The role sits alongside other Design and Heritage Officers as part of our Specialist Services team and works alongside other specialists including our Landscape and Arboricultural team and Ecology team.
Heritage Officer (Band 6/7 - £35,412 to £42,839 per annum)
In this role you will work with the existing Heritage Officer and Senior Design and Heritage Officers to provide heritage advice to protect and promote the historic environment of East Suffolk.
Your role will include commenting on development management applications, contributing to Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects, commissioning Conservation Area reviews and appraisals and seeing them through to adoption, and working on a major review of Article 4 Directions and extending their use.
You should have considerable experience of working in the historic environment, particularly with listed buildings and Conservation Areas; a strong theoretical, technical and practical knowledge of design and conservation of the built environment; and a broad grounding in planning and building control issues.
You should be either an Associate or Full Member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation – or at least an existing Affiliate.
Assistant Heritage Officer (Band 5 - £31,537 to £34,434 per annum)
At Assistant Heritage Officer level, you will support the existing Heritage Officer and Senior Design and Heritage Officers in the provision of heritage advice, including advising on the determination of planning applications and supporting the preparation of planning policy documents.
For both roles, you will have a passion for the historic built environment and display an independent and positive approach to safeguarding heritage across the district. You will be skilled at assessing development proposals and their impacts on heritage assets and providing technical and design advice to listed building occupiers and those in Conservation Areas.
Benefits
* Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)
* Local government pension scheme
* Flexible working arrangements
* Learning and development tailored to your role
* A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes
* Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services
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