Job Details:
Salary range: GBP 54,684 : GBP 74,487 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 27 April 2025
Interview date: 5 May 2025
About Us:
The Environment and Communities Directorate.
The Environment and Communities Directorate in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated people like Grace are using their skills and passion to progress environmental action in the heart of London.
It was at university where Grace first started campaigning for improved recycling facilities, water refill stations, and other eco:friendly initiatives. When she saw the real difference people could make when they came together, she knew she wanted to dedicate her career to community action for the planet.
When she joined us as Principal Engagement Officer, Climate Emergency, she quickly established herself as a passionate advocate for community outreach, engaging various stakeholders across Westminster in the social causes, impacts and solutions to climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss.
Grace became a driving force behind our first Citizens' Climate Assembly, which took place across two weekends in the summer of 2023. Fifty residents were chosen at random from across our diverse communities to come together, learn about the climate emergency, and deliberate how we overcome the barriers to becoming a net zero city by 2040. The assembly produced several recommendations which have informed the evolution of our Climate Emergency Action Plan. Due to the success of this initiative, we're holding more assemblies to continue community involvement in local decision:making.
To see the work of the Westminster Citizens' Climate Assembly, click
here.
The Role:
As our CCTV Technology and Housing Projects Lead you can make your own powerful contribution by helping us keep our residents safe through the introduction of new CCTV technology into their neighbourhoods, and the updating of old technology across our housing assets.
In 2024, we created a new Council CCTV Service which introduced 100 new public realm CCTV cameras into Westminster neighbourhoods. With a focus on placing CCTV in areas that are known crime and ASB hotspots, our cameras have also proved to be hugely helpful in detecting environmental issues and other problems that may affect our residents' quality of life. As such, this programme has been a huge success, and we are now ready to go further in our work and extend our CCTV offering, including updating more than 1,000 cameras that are outdated, ineffective and may be non:compliant with current standards.
You will be at the heart of this ambition, as we are currently lacking in technical expertise to achieve this vision. We are therefore looking for an ambitious individual who has extensive knowledge of the latest technological developments in surveillance cameras and their supporting systems, to help us implement the most effective network of CCTV options. Working with a wide range of council partners and external stakeholders to bring this vision to life, you will oversee the placement of new cameras and the assessment of old cameras, determining a plan of action for updating or replacing them. Advising on technological solutions, applications and connectivity requirements, you will see to it that we're complying with our legislative requirements, and you will be a trusted advisor on resident panels to ensure that our communities have faith in the decisions we're making.
Working under the guidance of the CCTV Strategic Lead, you will act as our technology lead for the council, so there will be a great deal of visibility in this role. As such, you can expect to be involved in the most high:profile meetings, updating elected councillors and other senior partners and stakeholders on your progress.
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