Reference: REQ0145
Description: We have a genuinely exceptional collection of assets and environments. Our heritage makes a dynamic contribution to modern life. Our heritage contributes to our local identity, local distinctiveness, and sense of community.Can you help us protect, conserve, enhance and enjoy our historic environment?About UsOur area’s long history of wool trade and cloth manufacture is reflected in the kinds of buildings and structures that are listed – as is the area’s later industrial diversification. With 3301 listed building entries within the district, that’s 4,500 individual properties and structures, we have 6.99 listed buildings per square kilometre. Combined with 41 conservation areas (including the 15 mile long Industrial Heritage Conservation Area), 68 scheduled ancient monuments, and 14 registered parks and gardens, our heritage team is kept busy. With over half the district within the Cotswold National Landscape, our topography adds to our heritage. The area’s industrial wealth (as well as periods of hardship and stagnation) gave us some of our most outstanding heritage assets. Ingenuity, nonconformity and philanthropy are distinctive characteristics of our heritage – and arguably these are still prominent in the district’s cultural heritage today.Heritage is embedded in the council’s daily activities. Based in the Grade II* listed Ebley Mill, our headquarters pay homage to our industrial past. The Museum in the Park is the district’s flagship museum, based at the Grade II listed former mansion house within Stratford Park in Stroud. We are a proactive authority where we recognise the value of our historic environment and assets and capitalise them in the social, economic, and environmental interests of the district.About the roleOur Development Management function processes over 2600 planning and related applications each year (including applications for listed building consent). We have a small but busy planning enforcement team.We’re looking for a Specialist Conservation Officer to positively contribute to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of our district’s unique heritage and ensure that our past is here for our future. In this role, you’ll provide specialist heritage advice across the spectrum of our development management activities, be that determining your own caseload of listed building consents, commenting on planning applications and pre-apps, or advising on unauthorised works (and subsequent appeals). You’ll help manage our Heritage at Risk Register and take a proactive approach to influencing major developments. Working with colleagues across the organisation, you’ll contribute to conservation area appraisals, statements, and management plans.About youYou’ll hold professional qualification or degree in Building Conservation and have significant experience in the field, with membership (or working towards membership) of the IHBC. You’ll have 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) at Grade 4 (C) or above. You’ll have a thorough understanding of the Town and Country Planning regime in England and experience of dealing the public and a wide range of partners. You’ll be an effective communicator with excellent standards of written and verbal communication.For an informal discussion, please contactJohn Chaplin, Majors and Environment Manageron01453 766321 or exchange for your expertise, experience and enthusiasmwe provide a range of staff benefits please click here for more information : is important that our staff reflect the diversity of our community, and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from people of all genders and sexual orientation, those from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds, and people with disabilities.Our organisation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable adults, young people and children. Safer recruitment practices are applied to all job vacancies.Stroud District has an energy unlike any other place. It’s green and dynamic, climate conscious and motivated, creative and collaborative, rural and urban, and unapologetically ambitious. To find out more about what makes our place, our people and our businesses so special, please follow the link to our dedicated website:Stroud District – The Natural Place
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Location: Ebley Mill - Stroud
Salary: *GBP*37,938 pro rata, per annum
Package: -Excellent pension scheme - Flexi Working Scheme - Hybrid working approach - Employee Wellbeing Offer - For more information please see the benefits section on our website
Contractual hours: 18.5
Basis: Permanent