Senior Licensing Officer WCC623235 in City of Westminster

Salary range: £42,912 - £49,155 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QPHours per week: 36.

Contract type: Permanent.

Closing date: 22 February 2026.

About Us

Public Protection & Licensing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people are passionate about keeping our streets safe and clean.

The Role

As a Senior Licensing Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to ensuring that every resident, business, and visitor to Westminster experiences and thrives in a clean, safe, and quiet city. We want to enhance the lives of people and businesses in every corner of the council. Working within, and nurturing an integrated safe city directorate, you’ll work to deliver a culturally competent and inclusive workforce that identifies with and reflects our community.

As a council, we have a vision of maintaining a comprehensive licensing service. One that provides proper advice and guidance to applicants, internal officers, members, senior managers and external partners. One that not only processes the licenses and registration applications effectively and efficiently but takes care to manage and store documents properly.

And this all starts with you. By joining our team, you’ll be at the heart of implementing and developing a cohesive policy and strategy. On top of presenting cases at Licensing Officer Panels and Licensing Sub Committees as well as attending public meetings and ensuring compliance through education, you’ll be responsible for monitoring, analysing and managing our delegated budgets and funding.

By doing the basics right, we’re able to prepare correspondence, write reports, attend hearings and represent the council with a library of relevant knowledge that makes us the trusted experts.

Meticulous, diligent, and influential, your attention to detail will be paramount to your success. As you negotiate with internal and external stakeholders, your people skills will come in handy as you investigate, analyse and provide solutions. With the ability to understand and explain complex legislation you’ll be comfortable working as part of a team but also solo.

With relevant skills and experience using databases within an administrative or customer service environment, you’ll be adept when dealing with enquiries and communications from the public. This experience should extend to include a range of public protection and licensing legislation and you’ll have a firm knowledge of the various types of licensing regimes.

This demonstrable experience will be paired with excellent written and verbal communication and competence with technology. This is a collaborative role. One that’ll require you to be assertive and tactful as well as confident when leading a team to efficiently complete and prioritise work.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.