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Tree Officer at London Borough of Camden

Tree Officer

London Borough of Camden · London, England, United Kingdom

5 days ago

Tree Officer

London Borough of Camden · London, England, United Kingdom

5 days ago
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About the Role

We are looking for an experienced arboricultural professional to join an internationally recognised tree service. You will assist the tree manager in the management of Council owned trees whilst delivering the Service Level Agreements for the maintenance and inspection of the Council’s tree stock. You will be responsible for carrying out risk management and giving specialist advice across the Council and external stakeholders. You must be willing to undertake a wide range of duties that are not directly related to the technical area of arboriculture such as: financial management, general administration, database interrogation and information retrieval, manipulation of large amounts of data within Excel, recharging for services, contract management and producing financial reports.

Responsibilities

  • Assist the tree manager in the management of Council owned trees.
  • Deliver Service Level Agreements for the maintenance and inspection of the Council’s tree stock.
  • Carry out risk management.
  • Provide specialist advice across the Council and to external stakeholders.
  • Undertake financial management.
  • Perform general administration.
  • Conduct database interrogation and information retrieval.
  • Manipulate large amounts of data within Excel.
  • Recharge for services.
  • Manage contracts.
  • Produce financial reports.

Requirements

  • Strong experience of working in urban areas.
  • Experience in carrying out tree inspections, surveys, diagnosis of tree defects/diseases and specifying remedial works.
  • Good working knowledge of tree legislation.
  • Experience using tree decay detection equipment.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Ability to engage and understand the perspectives of a range of stakeholders.
  • Ability to physically carry out work in relation to the emergency call out system.
  • Ability to respond in a calm and systematic way to urgent or emergency situations.
  • Positive individual with personal drive and initiative.
  • Willingness to learn and improve.

Skills

  • Arboriculture
  • Tree inspections
  • Tree surveys
  • Diagnosis of tree defects/diseases
  • Specifying remedial works
  • Tree legislation
  • Tree decay detection equipment
  • Communication
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Risk management
  • Financial management
  • General administration
  • Database interrogation
  • Information retrieval
  • Excel data manipulation
  • Contract management
  • Financial reporting

Location

  • 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Work Type

  • Permanent
  • Flexible working options available

Experience Level

  • Level 3
  • Experienced

Salary/Compensations

  • £42,221

Benefits

  • Host of benefits
  • Flexible working employer

About the Company

  • Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study, and visit.
  • Home to the UK’s fast-growing economy.
  • Home to the most important conversations happening today.
  • Making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind.

Equal Opportunity

  • Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
  • Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.