Hertfordshire (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
£41,511 progressing to £45,718
Partnership & Policy Officer Apply Now
- Job Number
- HCC27113
- Location
- Hertfordshire
- Directorate
- Growth & Environment
- Salary Range
- £41,511 progressing to £45,718
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Full Time/Part Time
- Full Time
- Closing date
- 02-Jun-2025
Job Title: Partnership & Policy Officer
Starting Salary: £41,511 progressing to £45,718 - pay award pending
Hours: 37.0
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Growth & Environment
About the team
Are you passionate about making a difference in waste management? The Herts Waste Partnership (HWP) is looking for a dynamic and dedicated individual to support our partner authorities in developing and implementing crucial projects that enhance service efficiency in waste collection, recycling, disposal, treatment, and education. You will provide effective support to develop projects, policies, plans, and delivery mechanisms that improve service efficiency, ensuring targets, timescales, and budgets are met. Additionally, you will coordinate key communication messages and content for WasteAware campaigns, support shared communication activities, and contribute to the preparation of reports for various audiences.
About the role
Your responsibilities will include reviewing best practices, analysing waste data, representing HWP at meetings, promoting partnerships, preparing meeting papers, contributing to HWP meetings, assisting with formal Member meetings, responding to enquiries, monitoring HWP expenditure, and developing strategies for engaging stakeholders. You will also build an HWP library of responses, act as the lead officer for presentations, develop shared campaigns, coordinate county-wide communications, and maintain the WasteAware website and social media channels.
About you
To be successful in this role, you should have a degree or equivalent experience in waste or environmental issues, excellent organisational and administration skills, project management experience, advanced interpersonal and team working skills, and good political awareness. Strong communication skills, IT literacy, and experience in developing social media content, and communicating difficult messages is also essential.
We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.
This job role is within the Technical Services, level TEC11 job profile. Please locate this via:
Job profiles: Technical services
To hear more about this opportunity please contact matthew.king@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
This job posting may be closed ahead of the deadline if we receive a sufficient number of high-quality applications.
Interview Date: 19th June 2025
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Additional information
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
Available documents
- HWP Partnership & Policy Officer.pdf