Definitive Map Officer

Cambridgeshire County Council; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

Cycle to Work

Car Lease

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking a dedicated professional to maintain and update the Definitive Map and related PROW records. You will investigate MAP orders, support Commons and Village Green registers, and carry out historic research and site visits.

You will prepare precise technical reports and engage with stakeholders including parish councils, landowners and internal teams, ensuring legal robustness of records and contributing to PROW improvements and planning responses.

Qualifications

• Experience investigating and interpreting legal records and historic documents.
• Ability to interpret maps, legal evidence and historic sources.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and updating the Definitive Map, Statement and other PROW and highway records.
• Investigating Definitive Map Modification Orders and Public Path Orders.
• Managing Commons and Town/Village Green Registers and processing amendments.
• Carrying out site visits, historic research and evidence assessment.
• Preparing clear technical reports and legal documentation.
• Engaging with parish councils, landowners, developers and internal teams.
• Representing the Council at meetings and public inquiries when required.

Skills

Investigation

GIS & mapping

Legal research & interpretation

Analytical thinking

Education

Experience with PROW, highway records, or related fields

Tools

GIS software

Job description

to join our Highway Records & Definitive Map Team. You’ll play a vital role in protecting and managing Cambridgeshire’s Public Rights of Way (PROW) network by ensuring our legal records — including the Definitive Map and Statement, Commons and Village Green registers — are accurate, up to date and legally robust.

This is a varied role combining legal investigation, historic research, mapping, stakeholderengagementand project delivery.You’llmanage your own caseload, carry out site visits, prepare statutory reports and legal documentation, and support the delivery of improvements to the PROW network, including those linked to planning and Section 106 contributions.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we modernise our systems, digitise our records and respond to major infrastructure and development proposals across the county.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

wellbeing package to cover

all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family

• Buy up to

4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Take your bank holidays

flexibly to better suit

your personal circumstances

• Make

Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings

• Access to

development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support

your personal and professional growth

Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a

positive impact on our community during your normal working day

• Access to

Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff

equality, diversity and inclusion network

• Opportunities to nominate and receive

Employee Recognition Awards

• An

Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online

discounts as well as our

Car Lease and

Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

Maintaining and updating the Definitive Map, Statement and other PROW and highway records

Investigating and processing Definitive Map Modification Order and Public Path Order applications

Supporting the management of Commons and Town/Village Green Registers and processing applications to amend them

Carrying out historic research, site inspections and evidence assessment

Preparing clear, accurate technical reports and legal documentation

Responding to planning applications that affect public rights of way

data

management

projects

Working with parish councils, landowners, developers and internal teams

Supporting delivery of PROW improvements linked to planning and S106

Representing the Council at meetings and, where required, public inquiries

Providing professional advice on PROW matters to colleagues and customers

About you

You’ll be someone who enjoys investigative work,

problem

solving

and working with legislation. You’ll have strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to interpret maps, historic documents and legal evidence.

You’llalso be confident communicating with a wide range of people — from landowners and parish councils to legal professionals and members of the public.You’llbe organised, proactive and able to manage your workload to meet statutory deadlines.

Although we do give on-the-job training, experience working with PROW, highway records, countryside management, legalservicesor similar technical fields (eg, planning, surveying) is essential, as is experience using GIS or mapping software.

Next steps

If you’re ready to help shape the future of Cambridgeshire’s public rights of way network and want a role that blends legal investigation, mapping, community engagement and project delivery, we’d love to hear from you.

If you have any questions or would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact Michelle Darrington, Highway Records and Definitive Map Lead, via [e-mail]

About us

The Place & Sustainability Directorate is responsible for shaping Cambridgeshire’s infrastructure, environment and communities. Our Highway Records & Definitive Map Team ensures that the county’s public access network is legally protected, accurately recorded and

well

managed

.

We are modernising our services, digitising our records and strengthening our approach to major development and infrastructure projects. You’ll be joining a supportive, collaborative team committed to delivering

high

quality

services and continuous improvement.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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