Environmental Sustainability Officer
| Posting date: | 13 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,214 to £35,022 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2025 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, Essex |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Chelmsford City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Are you committed to making positive environmental change and wish to inject your passion and energy into creating a more sustainable city?
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to help deliver the Love Your Chelmsford programme by working with residents, community groups, schools and businesses to improve the environmental quality of our city and encourage people to live a greener lifestyle.
The successful applicant will undertake a range of projects and initiatives with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve local environmental quality to help address the Climate and Ecological Emergency. A strong focus will be on reducing the amount of waste generated and encourage reuse and recycling wherever possible, ensuring that streets are well cared for, whilst encouraging ‘green life-style’ changes for the benefit of current and future generations.
The post holder will be required to work 37 hours per week Monday to Friday, some late evening and weekend work will be required.
Find out more about Chelmsford and Working for the City Council by viewing our Uncover Your Potential brochure above.
As an accredited Essex Family Friendly Employer, this full-time role can be job-shared or part-time if we can fill the remaining hours. Please mention this in your supporting statement. if you are interested. For more details please visit: https://www.essex.gov.uk/family-friendly-charter.
Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment checks which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.
To view further details for this role including a job description, please click the link on the attachments section.
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to help deliver the Love Your Chelmsford programme by working with residents, community groups, schools and businesses to improve the environmental quality of our city and encourage people to live a greener lifestyle.
The successful applicant will undertake a range of projects and initiatives with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve local environmental quality to help address the Climate and Ecological Emergency. A strong focus will be on reducing the amount of waste generated and encourage reuse and recycling wherever possible, ensuring that streets are well cared for, whilst encouraging ‘green life-style’ changes for the benefit of current and future generations.
The post holder will be required to work 37 hours per week Monday to Friday, some late evening and weekend work will be required.
Find out more about Chelmsford and Working for the City Council by viewing our Uncover Your Potential brochure above.
As an accredited Essex Family Friendly Employer, this full-time role can be job-shared or part-time if we can fill the remaining hours. Please mention this in your supporting statement. if you are interested. For more details please visit: https://www.essex.gov.uk/family-friendly-charter.
Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment checks which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.
To view further details for this role including a job description, please click the link on the attachments section.
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