Air Quality Officer
Sheffield City Council
Are you passionate about working to help improve air quality, and have a high-level knowledge of Air Quality management, a proven track record in delivery and you’re looking for your next role?
Sheffield City Council is seeking to appoint an experienced Air Quality Officer who will play a key role in supporting major improvements to the air people breath across Sheffield.
Here in Sheffield, we want our air quality to be cleaner and healthier for all who live in our city. We introduced our Clean Air Zone last year and we are already starting to see improvements in vehicle reductions. This role provides an opportunity to analyse the air quality impact and support in improving our wider environment in helping to deliver our new five-year strategy and action plan. If you are interested in understanding the impact of one of only nine Clean Air Zones in the UK or want to help improve the environment, this role might be of interest to you.
You will provide air quality advice and guidance to colleagues, customers, and external stakeholders to enable them to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery and protect health. Undertaking modelling exercises you will support the project management of air quality reduction schemes and support the development of policy that will be crucial in supporting our city achieves its clean air objectives.
With a background in air quality monitoring and management, including the delivery of interventions to reduce emissions you will need to have high-level of knowledge of Air Quality Management, a proven track record working with key stakeholders to deliver in relevant work streams such as pollution monitoring, air quality modelling and advising planning transport colleagues on development schemes.
You will also need to possess strong numeracy skills, an understanding of project management and have the ability to draft reports and communicate information of a complicated technical nature to peers and a wider non-technical audience in written form.
If this sound like you and you are passionate about making a difference to our environment, we want to hear from you.
An informal discussion can be had with Andrew Jameson about this role please contact via email at [email protected]
Interviews for the role are scheduled to be conducted 3 & 5 December 2024.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
About Sheffield City Council
In everything we do, we will focus on the people of Sheffield and enabling them to achieve
their potential. We will take the bold decisions which will drive the city’s long-term
prosperity, ensuring that we are a global leader in the climate transition, capitalising on the
path to net zero to grow our economy, improve lives and protect our beautiful natural
environment.
In everything we do, we will focus on the people of Sheffield and enabling them to achieve their potential. We will take the bold decisions which will drive the city’s long-term prosperity, ensuring that we are a global leader in the climate transition, capitalising on the path to net zero to grow our economy, improve lives and protect our beautiful natural environment.
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