Technical Officer

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