Flood Risk Management Officer

Overview

Location:

Your office base will be Chichester, and a typical week will combine homeworking with attendance at the office, minimum twice a week, and some site visits. This is led by the needs of the service. As a Flood Risk Management Officer, you will work on the delivery of the County Council's duties to manage local flood risk. With a "Can do" attitude, you will champion sustainable solutions for the County with both internal and external stakeholders.

In this role your work will be varied.

Day to day tasks include:

• Supporting the delivery of the Council's Local Flood Risk Management Strategy.
• Investigating, consenting and enforcement (in relation to watercourses) relating to the Land Drainage Act 1991.
• Acting as a statutory consultee on sustainable drainage schemes under the planning system.
• Cooperation with other Risk Management Authorities.
• Ability to think through issues and problem solve whilst taking in the wider context and potential solutions.
• Working independently and managing your workload to ensure priorities and deadlines are achieved.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that information is presented in a clear format relevant to the audience.
• Ability to convey technical information, work as part of a team and build effective working relationships.
• Knowledge of the Authority's role in flood risk management and the ability to represent the County Council at meetings.
• Understanding of flood risk management principles and the national flood risk management agenda.
• Experience in a flood risk management related field.
• Experience of delivering projects and the skills required to deliver this.
• Sound and accurate IT knowledge to enable production of written reports, etc.

• £29,540 - £32,061 per year, progressing to £32,597 - £35,412, and then to £36,363 - £39,152 per annum.
• Contract:
  
  Permanent.
• Job type:
  Full-time.