Salary: Grade 11 (£54,628 - £59,825)

Contractual hours: 37

Package: 1 permanent post

Job category/type: Management

Date posted: 22/03/2024

Job reference: REQ002113

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Job description

As one of the largest employers in Sheffield, with over 7,000 employees, we aim to recruit and develop people who share our passion for Sheffield. If you work for us, you will be part of a team, which provides a huge range of services to our 574,000 residents, businesses large and small, as well as to our many visitors to the city.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Council’s Street Scene Services team as a Chief Licensing Officer. This role will manage our Taxi and Events Licensing team, as well as leading on the council’s approach to the protect duty, in particular preparing for the incoming Terrorism (Protection of premises) Act, also known as Martyn’s Law.

We work as one team for Sheffield to meet challenges head on and involve local people to improve our services and quality of life in our city.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced professional in the licensing field, with excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to lead partners and stakeholders to deliver joined up services.

They will have an understanding of the developing legislation around the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act, and be able to develop plans to effectively communicate with city partners and organisations how we will embed the requirements in Sheffield.  This element of the role will require an understanding of protection of public spaces and how to work with colleagues to risk assess areas and develop solutions.

You will need to work closely with our General Licensing colleagues in the Environmental Regulations and Licensing service to provide a seamless service to businesses and residents in Sheffield.

We're ambitious

Our Council vision is for Sheffield to flourish as a modern city that is socially and environmentally just, with great opportunities and wellbeing for everyone.

Our priorities are to empower people and businesses to thrive, build sustainability into all areas of life and keeping Sheffield’s diverse communities at the heart of all our plans.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy sets out our equality commitments to the people of Sheffield and our staff and how we will meet them.

We are a City Council, where we are investing for the future.  This includes investment in the skills and capabilities of our workforce and attracting new talent to deliver for Sheffield and ensure our people reflect the city we serve. 

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.

If 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.

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.

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