Lead Officer Policy & Insight (Nature Recovery Co-ordinator) - Waverley Court

Job Description

Corporate Services

Lead Officer Policy and Insight (Nature Recovery Co-ordinator)
Waverley Court

Salary: £50,550 to £60,506 per year
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for dynamic and enthusiastic individual to take an active role in supporting Scotland’s Capital City to deliver the Nature Recovery programme and support Scotland’s capital city Climate Emergency. In 2023 the City of Edinburgh Council declared a Nature Emergency and in partnership with city stakeholders, we are supporting a citywide programme of Nature Recovery. This followed the declaration of a Climate Emergency in 2019.

To support delivery of these Emergencies, the Council is recruiting a Lead Officer, Policy & Insight (Nature Recovery Coordinator).

• The post holder will lead the direction, strategy, performance, efficiency and achievement of the actions as set out across the relevant nature strategies, including the Open Space Strategy, Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan, Edinburgh Thriving Green Spaces Strategy and Green Blue Network and Climate Ready Edinburgh projects.
• Responsible to the Climate and Sustainability Strategy Manager for managing, developing and delivering the citywide response to the nature emergency.

The post will take a leading role within specific areas of work/projects, in line with the Council’s, and its partners’, strategic direction, outcomes and priorities relating to nature recovery and may be required to undertake the roles and responsibility for other areas.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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