Green Spaces Officer

Essential Employment; Addlestone; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Essential Employment is representing a local council in the United Kingdom to recruit a Parks and Green Spaces Coordinator. The role focuses on organizing and coordinating improvements across parks, playgrounds, open spaces and allotments, ensuring timely completion and budget adherence.

You will liaise with the in-house grounds maintenance team, councillors, external agencies, residents and contractors to deliver strategic objectives from an operational perspective.

Responsibilities

• Maintain proper Health and Safety standards and prepare/review risk assessments and risk/benefit analyses.
• Organise and coordinate improvement projects in parks, playgrounds, open spaces, and allotments, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Liaise with in-house grounds maintenance team to discuss standards and provide guidance for best practice.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders (Community Services, Councillors, external agencies, residents, contractors) to deliver strategic goals.
• Support ground maintenance teams, Green Space and Tree teams, and volunteers in on-site conservation work, planting, and habitat creation.
• Supervise contractors and volunteers across schemes to improve the Borough’s green spaces.
• Assist in the development of management plans for various parks and greenspaces.
• Assist in the management of events when required.

Job description

Primary

1. Ensure that all activities under the post holder’s control are undertaken in such a way as to maintain proper Health and Safetystandards and are in line with the Council’s Health and Safety policies, including the preparation and review of risk assessments and/or risk/benefit analyses.

2. Organise and coordinate improvement projects in parks, playgrounds, open spaces, and allotments, ensuring they are completed on time and to budget.

3. Liaise with the in-house grounds’ maintenanceteam to discuss standards of work, supply technical guidance and to encourage best practice.

4. Liasise and work collaboratively with other internal and external stakeholders; relevant internal departments such as Community Services, Councillors, external agencies, friends groups, residents, contractors and businesses to deliver deliver strategic goals and advise from an operational perspective.

5. Support our ground maintenance teams, Green Space colleagues, Tree team and volunteers in occasional on-site, practical conservation work, planting, and habitat creation.

6. Supervise contractors and volunteerson a wide range of schemes and projects to improve the value of the Borough’s green spaces.

7. Assist in the development of management plansfor various parks and greenspaces

8. Assist in the management of events when as required

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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