Technical Support Officer

| Salary £25,989-£28,142 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 38 hours per week | Environment and Climate |

International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship

Lancashire County Council is looking for an organised, self-motivated and methodical Technical Support Officer to work primarily on the Biological Heritage Sites system (Lancashire's County Wildlife Sites) and to support the work of the Biological Heritage Sites ecologists.

This role is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to nature conservation and recovery in Lancashire.

The successful candidate will be utilising and developing their administration, data management and people skills, and gaining understanding and experience in a broad range of ecological practices, land management principals and stakeholder engagement.

In 1993, Lancashire launched a pioneering approach to identify and help protect non-statutory local wildlife sites by establishing the Biological Heritage Sites (BHS) system, which currently identifies 1,231 sites across the county.

The system was developed in partnership with Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Natural England.

The Biological Heritage Site team maintains and updates the BHS system, undertakes a rolling programme of site surveys, offers land management advice and advice on potential grants and support available for the positive management of sites.

We work with a wide range of organisations and individuals.

The post lies within a team which also operates the Lancashire Environment Record Network (LERN), the local environmental records centre for Lancashire.

LERN collect, collate, manage and disseminate information relating to the natural environment of Lancashire, providing environmental evidence to inform decision making.

The wider team includes Lancashire Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) staff, as well as Ecologists providing advice to LCC Development Management and working on LCC projects, and the Treescapes team working to coordinate urban and rural tree planting and woodland creation.

The successful candidate will have excellent data management (including GIS) skills.

Organised, self-motivated and methodical, you will possess good communication and people skills and have a keen eye for detail.

You will have a familiarity with the principles and interest in nature conservation and recovery, ecology, conservation land management and/or nature friendly farming.