Assistant Development Officer (Landscape Architect)

Green Sefton require an Assistant Development Officer (Landscape Architect) to join our growing team to help deliver a programme of improvements to parks and green spaces within the borough of Sefton. You will be part of the Green Sefton Team which is the department within Sefton Council responsible for parks, green spaces, watercourses, and coast.

We have ambitions to grow our service to deliver the most creative, beautiful, and sustainable environments possible for the people of Sefton. We are looking for skilled individuals to bring their abilities, vision, and enthusiasm, to help us achieve those ambitions.

Green Sefton includes teams from Coast & Countryside, Parks & Greenspaces, Flooding & Coastal Erosion Risk Management, and Land Management. We manage and develop the wonderful natural and manmade resources within the borough of Sefton for people and nature.

Sefton’s diverse landscapes include woodlands, meadows, wetlands, water courses, parks, informal greenspaces, and an extensive coastline of beaches, sand dunes, and salt marshes. The borough also encompasses internationally important nature and wildlife conservation areas. Green Sefton are also an important strategic partner and contributor to the development of the increasingly important green/blue infrastructure of Liverpool City Region. https://www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/

 The natural and built environment of Sefton offer many and varied opportunities for landscape design and management. Projects range across nature conservation, habitat creation, sport and play facilities, urban public spaces, and public infrastructure.

This is a permanent, full-time position. Your main responsibilities will be to support the Principal Development Officer, who is also a Landscape Architect, to instigate and deliver a varied and expanding programme of exiting improvement projects throughout the borough of Sefton. As part of the Development Team, you will be supported to conceive and design projects that will move Sefton onto a more sustainable and nature enhancing footing.

You will contribute landscape and public realm designs as part of multi-disciplinary teams, as well as provide advice to other disciplines and council departments on landscape and urban design matters. You will be expected to help identify, secure, and direct funding opportunities toward and within Green Sefton’s portfolio of works. You will enhance existing relationships with our delivery and strategic partners as well as build new ones. As we build our team you may be required to lead and mentor more junior team members.

This position will provide the opportunity to develop skills and experience working on a diverse range of projects and strategies from inception through to completion. You will be part of a supportive team within a progressive local authority with all of the acknowledged benefits and advantages that will confer. You will gain considerable and invaluable diverse working experience that will stand you in good stead for your future career development either within Sefton Council or elsewhere.

The position offers:

• A wide variety of career progression routes bespoke to individual training and development needs as identified in your annual PDR
• Opportunities for agile/flexible working
• Hybrid working e.g. the ability to work from home or office dependent on work duties
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days after 5 years continual service, plus 8 bank holidays
• Opportunity to join our generous and flexible Local Government Pension Scheme
• Established flexi-time scheme
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity/adoption leave pay, and maternity support leave schemes.
• Access to free eye tests and, where appropriate, contribution towards spectacles
• Discounted gym membership with all Active Sefton gyms
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to local benefits and discounts on products and services
• Occupational Health Service available to advise on work related health issues.
• Commitment to supporting your emotional and mental health with access to a free and confidential employee counselling service
• Assistance with relocation if eligible
• Access to a range of other benefits

Green Sefton are keen to create a diverse team of people who respect, value, and support each other in the delivery of our service. We believe strongly in the benefit that a diverse workforce will bring to the environment, the people of Sefton, and each other, by virtue of new insights, different lived experience, and alternative viewpoints.

We offer flexible working to help our team members to maintain a good work/life balance and manage their other life commitments. Regular training and career development are encouraged, and team events are held to foster an inclusive atmosphere.

Interviews to be held Tuesday 22/04/25