Fly Tipping Lead Officer (Temp)

The Service & Team:

The Community Protection team plays a vital role in maintaining safe clean and well-managed environments across Cornwall. The service brings together a range of enforcement regulatory and community-focused functions working to protect residents businesses and the wider environment.

The team takes a balanced approachcombining education engagement and enforcementto tackle issues such as environmental crime anti-social behaviour and compliance with local regulations. This includes working closely with communities partners and other Council services to prevent issues resolve problems and deliver lasting improvements.

Within this Environmental Crime Officers provide day-to-day enforcement and casework supported by specialist roles and targeted projects. The Fly-Tipping Project Officer will work as part of this wider team building on existing expertise and contributing to a coordinated intelligence-led approach to reducing environmental harm across Cornwall.

The Role:

Tired of seeing fly-tipping blight our communities

Be the one who helps stop it.

Were recruiting a Fly-Tipping Project Officer to lead a focused high-impact programme across Cornwalltackling one of the most visible and frustrating environmental crimes affecting our residents businesses and rural communities.

This is a hands-on operational role where youll work at the sharp end of enforcement and prevention. You wont be doing this in isolationyoull be working closely with our established Environmental Crime Officers building on their local knowledge active cases and experience to strengthen outcomes and ensure a consistent intelligence-led approach across the service.

Youll take the lead in:

• investigating offences and developing strong enforcement cases
• working alongside Environmental Crime Officers to support and progress live cases
• using intelligence and surveillance techniques including covert cameras to identify offenders and deter repeat behaviour
• working with communities landowners and partners to prevent fly-tipping and improve reporting
• shaping how we tackle fly-tippingbringing new ideas testing approaches and driving improvements

This role is about making things happen. Your work will be visible measurable and make a real difference to Cornwalls environment and communities.

If youre someone who enjoys problem-solving thrives in a practical enforcement role and wants to be part of a team that is already making an impactbut is ready to go furtherthis is the opportunity for you.

Working Pattern:

Mon Fri 37 hours

What youll need to succeed:

Experienced investigator able to gather evidence build cases and follow lines of enquiry

Experience of enforcement or regulatory work (e.g. criminal environmental crime or similar)

Excellent communication skills confident dealing with residents landowners partners and offenders

Analytical thinking able to identify patterns hotspots and opportunities for targeted action

Confidence using intelligence-led approaches including surveillance and data to support enforcement

Problem-solving mindset practical solution-focused and able to adapt approaches where needed

Strong organisational skills including case management and maintaining accurate records

Good knowledge of RIPA and surveillance techniques

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

a competitive salary.

a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Sarah-Jane Brown

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contactif you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.