At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our Waste Management Team to ensure effective waste collection and disposal services.
- Company: Herefordshire Council, a supportive and ambitious workplace.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous leave, flexible working, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Enjoy a dynamic work environment with clear career progression paths.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on environmental objectives while working in a friendly team.
- Qualifications: Strong analytical skills and experience in contract monitoring preferred.
The predicted salary is between 40778 - 45092 £ per year.
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.
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
- 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?
We're proud and excited to unveil our new recruitment video, a celebration of Herefordshire's people, places, and purpose. 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 have strong and independent communities and idyllic countryside, situated in the South West Midlands and bordering Wales.
The county sits between Worcestershire and the Malvern Hills to the east, and Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons) in Wales to the west. Historically Herefordshire has been the gateway to the Marches.
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.
Herefordshire Council is committed to strengthening a diverse and inclusive work environment which reflects the communities of Herefordshire. If you are looking at the next stage of your career and have a broad base of fieldwork experience, we can provide supportive and welcoming opportunities to help you develop your professional, management & supervisory skills.
How to apply
To apply for a position, please upload an up-to-date CV and complete the application form demonstrating your experience, skills and abilities for the role. Please ensure that you demonstrate your experience and knowledge, skills and abilities and any other factors by providing examples of how you meet those as listed in the job description.
For more information or to arrange an informal discussion about the role, please contact the Acting Waste Services Manager, Craig Cornish or Acting Head of Waste, Nicola Percival on 01432 260488.
If you are offered this position, it will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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