Principal Waste Contracts Officer in Hereford

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Waste Management Team at Herefordshire Council. Working within a supportive and ambitious team, you will play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of the council's waste collection and disposal services and helping to achieve our environmental objectives.

The Role

Herefordshire Council is looking for an experienced waste contract monitoring officer to join its friendly Waste Management Team. We have an Integrated Waste Strategy with far reaching ambitions and new targets to cut carbon, increase waste minimisation, reuse, recycling and composting activities.

What will you be doing?

• Your role will be responsible for analysing performance and using a performance management framework to demonstrate how the services are achieving contractual outcomes.
• We're looking for someone who can develop effective partnerships with our contractors through productive client/commissioner and provider relationships to deliver continuous improvement, drive efficiencies and demonstrate value for money.
• The ability to travel independently around the county is essential.
• The working day can involve some early starts and some late finishes. Weekend working is also expected on some occasions.

About You

You’ll need to have:

• Great analytical skills
• Be proficient in the use of excel
• Have experience of monitoring contracts and budgets, specifically within the waste sector would be preferable.
• The expertise to identify improvements.
• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders to implement change.

The post is based at Plough Lane in Hereford with the team working from here for 2 days per week and with working from home also current practice.

We Offer

• A competitive salary, holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme.
• Salary range of £40,777- £45,091.
• Enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Career progression: clear pathways to progress.
• Annual Leave: 31 days' annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum during the request period.
• Flexible working: including the potential for job-sharing, part-time hours and agile working.
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling.
• Payment of professional membership fees (based on role requirements).
• Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits.

Why Choose Us?

At Herefordshire Council, every role matters and every person makes a real difference for our communities. We’re a team where people feel valued, supported and empowered to grow together. Herefordshire is big hearted, welcoming and friendly.

We embrace partnership working. We are a member of the Marches Forward Partnership, which is a cross border collaboration between Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Powys and Shropshire who are collectively working to secure funding to invest in the region.

The council priorities over the next four years are set out in the Council Plan, with four main areas:

• People: We will enable residents to realise their potential, to be healthy and to be part of great communities who support each other.
• Place: We will protect and enhance our environment and ensure that Herefordshire is a great place to live.
• Growth: We will create the conditions to deliver sustainable growth across the county; attracting inward investment, building business confidence, creating jobs, enabling housing development along with providing the right infrastructure.
• Transformation: We will be an efficient council that embraces best practice, delivers innovation through technology and demonstrates value for money.

Don’t meet all parts of the job description? Herefordshire Council is committed to strengthening a diverse and inclusive work environment which reflects the communities of Herefordshire.

Reasonable Adjustments

Our recruitment process runs in partnership with Hoople Resourcing. If you require any reasonable adjustments or alternative methods for the online application process, please contact the resourcing team by email: enquiries@hoopleresourcing.co.uk.

Creating an inclusive workplace

We encourage our employees to feel empowered and to use their voices to help embrace diversity, promote inclusivity and shape our organisation.

Commitments, Covenants and Statutory Obligations

The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:

• Those who indicate that they have a disability.
• Those who indicate in their application that they are an Armed Forces Veteran or Reservist.
• Those who indicate in their application that they are a Herefordshire care leaver.

We take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment.