Environmental Services Development Officer

About Us

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and
bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning
parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

Bexley’s Environmental Services department ensures that highly visible front-line services are
delivered across the borough. The Council has a statutory duty to maintain the urban
environment clean via services such as recycling, waste collection, disposal and street
cleansing. These are universal services which are used by all Bexley residents and the
department ensures that these services are delivered in an efficient manner by its contractors.
In addition, the department is responsible for the enforcement of littering and fly tipping
offences, as well as the issuing of street trading licences in the borough.

London Borough of Bexley is a unitary authority, and the team is also responsible for the
monitoring of all waste disposal contracts. The team works closely with partners in the waste
industry to ensure that both reuse and recycling centres in the borough are running smoothly
and that the material collected from the kerbside and from both recycling centres in the
borough is disposed of in line with the requirements set in the Environmental Protection Act
from 1990. Our team also engages with Bexley residents and schools and provides advice on
recycling. We have a pool of over 350 street litter picking volunteers.

About the Role

You will take collective responsibility in the drafting of the Bexley Waste Management Strategy
in the aim of achieving long term sustainable waste and street cleansing services in the
borough. You will be required to deliver service improvements and develop better services for
our residents and will be heavily involved in the implementation and delivery of our annual
Street Services Improvement Plan.

You will be required to produce information, reports and submit funding applications and
applications for service awards and constantly seek to develop and improve the services.

You will be responsible for managing a pool of local volunteers and engage them in activities
and ensure the initiatives are delivered in line with Health and Safety. You will also be
required to organise litter picking projects with the Community Payback section and the pool of
snow gritting volunteers.

You will represent the department at meetings with contractors, elected members, Community
Safety meetings and forums and under the guidance of the Environmental Services Manager (Waste
Disposal and Street Cleansing), you will be responsible for the planning, delivery and
implementation of capital programme schemes linked to service development i.e. the replacement
of waste containers, litter bins and installation of CCTV enforcement cameras. You will also be
responsible for the planned annual cleansing maintenance of all TfL Road network in the borough
and that the programme is delivered as per agreed schedule.

You will work collaboratively with the Enviro-crime enforcement team to ensure fly tipping and
littering offences are minimised boroughwide and that the monthly data on all street scene
national indicators is monitored and recorded on Waste Data Flow.

As our development officer you will be required to prepare and deliver bespoke presentations on
waste management and street cleansing issues to various groups, meetings and conferences. This
is to ensure that the service is represented at internal and external forums and that the
knowledge obtained is shared which will allow services to be transformed, modernised and
digitalised in line with other local authorities.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Asya Mircheva, Head of Environmental
Services, 0203 045 3577; [email protected]

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension
scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits
package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Candidate Profile

It is important that you are able to provide reports/data for submission to senior manager and
elected Members, and other stakeholders to ensure that they are kept aware of all relevant
developments and to bring to the attention of the Head of Environmental Services any key issues
impacting on the services provided by the Contractor. This will lead to better Client
management and improved outcomes for our residents.

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the
Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

How To Apply

Use the ‘Apply for vacancy’ button.

Please note that the system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your
answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised and have your CV
and/or Supporting statement ready to upload.

If any mandatory fields are missing, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising
which sections require completion. Please check your Junk email for any correspondence.

Additional Information

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all
disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any
disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be
made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on
[email protected]

This role may be available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council’s
existing employees. The Council’s Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of
interest, please contact the recruiting manager.