About the role

North Northamptonshire is growing and evolving rapidly as a Council and as a community.  It is an exciting time to be joining us.  With Growth comes development, from house extensions to urban extensions; warehouses to wind farms; one person’s dream, is another’s nightmare.  Development is challenging, are you up for that challenge? The Development Liaison Team brings together the Council’s highways advice, highways adoptions and highways agreements services supported by our partners in Kier Highways, this small but dedicated team needs you to meet the challenges ahead.

We look forward to you helping us shape our new and emerging communities whilst protecting our existing vibrant and beautiful historic towns and villages. 

What will you be doing?

The Business Support Officer (Development Liaison) sits within the Development Liaison team of the Council’s Highways and Waste services which brings together the Council’s highways advice, highways adoptions and highways agreements services supported by our partners in Kier Highways.  This small but highly effective and dedicated team needs additional support to continue to provide the high-quality services vital to facilitate development and growth in our area.  The post holder will support our highways adoptions and highways agreements services as well as other highways teams in providing technical, administrative, and financial processing support.  The role also involves administering the systems necessary to ensure the Council is paid for delivering services for developers and balances the team’s finances by reporting on income and expenditure using the Council’s in-house systems.

About you

Are you our new Business Support Officer (Development Liaison) - supporting our teams and processing the financial transactions vital to the services we run?

You will have a high standard of education preferably at Degree level with a keenness to learn new skills, technical, legal and financial processes and systems that underpin modern development engineering.

Our benefits

We offer:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:

• helping people live active fulfilled lives
• caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
• enabling a thriving and successful economy
• leading on a green and sustainable environment
• ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
• providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

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