Green and Open Spaces Officer

2 Year Fixed Term with potential to extend

Melton Borough Council is committed to enabling Healthy Communities and Neighbourhoods. A key part of our work is taking proactive steps to make our beautiful and vibrant borough cleaner, greener and safer.  As our Green and Open Spaces Officer, you will play a key role in enhancing our focus on pride in place.
With a clear understanding of the value of working collaboratively, you will play a key role in ensuring effective, efficient and high-quality services to maximise environmental quality, taking a planned and evidence-based approach to support ongoing investment, service delivery and improvement options for our green and open spaces. You will be confident to enable a best practice approach for the spaces and places that we know are valued by our residents and visitors.

About you
The ideal candidate will need to be enthusiastic, self-motivated and well organised.  You will need to have a good track record of delivery and coordination of work across multiple teams to achieve outcomes.
As our green and open spaces officer, you will need to be able:

• to support and influence the work of colleagues and stakeholders, ensuring that the council can make best use of its resources at all times.
• to communicate clearly and effectively, ensuring that there is clarity arising from your work and leadership to support service delivery across our council teams to support a clear vision for Pride in our Place.
• to problem solve and working across teams to navigate uncertain or ambiguous situations.
• to develop evidence and data led reports, analysis and plans that guide and support financially viable maintenance and investment planning, to accurately assess both opportunities and risks.
• be confident to contribute to IT systems that will make it easier to have a single view of investment, maintenance and inspection arrangements.

This role reports directly to the Waste and Environmental Services Manager but to be most effective, the postholder will need to be comfortable to work as part of a cross directorate approach in order to deliver positive outcomes to meet the council’s commitments to pride in place and to ensure a joint approach to problem solving and achieving outcomes.
Some key duties include:
Ensuring that ‘green assets’ (including cemeteries, closed churchyards, country park, green spaces, play areas, street furniture, tree maintenance) are logged and mapped and maintained accurately within a central system alongside corporate and housing assets to support a whole council view of assets owned and maintained by the council.
Leading the development and implementation of clear maintenance and management plans and monitoring inspection schedules for council owned and maintained green and open spaces and associated ‘green assets’ across the borough to support work planning and programming, resource allocation and budget management.
Reviewing operating and management arrangements for council run allotment sites and to support the development of options for secure and sustainable operations in the future.
Leading and coordinating the council’s Pride in Place cross departmental group; ensuring information and updates are provided in support of the objectives of the group and that a collaborative approach is taken to matters or initiatives relating to environmental quality / pride in place within the resources and capacity available.
To lead self-assessment and application to obtain green flag status for Melton Country Park, and to ensure that effective arrangements are in place to maintain accreditation.
To be proactive in supporting internal and external communications about activities, projects and initiatives that contribute positively to pride in place including annual review and update on outcomes achieved.
About Us and General Info:
Working for Melton Borough Council provides an excellent range of benefits and family friendly working policies. These include:

• flexitime with no core hours in line with service needs
• agile working arrangements which enable multi-site and home working in line with service need
• generous leave entitlement
• a full week off at Christmas
• Local Authority Pension Scheme
• a clear commitment to your continued professional development.

We look forward to hearing from you if you are looking for the chance to work for a forward-thinking council and make a real difference to the people of Melton and surrounding area.
You can find out more about this role and how to apply on our website`s job vacancy page Vacancies – Melton Borough Council    This is also where you can find out about our guarantee interview scheme for anyone who is a reservist, veteran, or has a disability and meets the criteria for the role.

If you would like an informal chat, please do not to hesitate to get in touch with:
Ryan Finnegan – Waste and Environmental Services Manager
Mobile number: 07917 549 708
Email: RFinnegan@melton.gov.uk

Closes: 12 Noon, Tuesday 10 June 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed