Revenues Inspections Officer

About The Role

North Norfolk is a fantastic place to live, work and visit – covering over 360 sq miles of coastal and rural environment, with a population of over 100,000 people living in 120 distinct communities, our District is one of England’s top holiday destinations and a place where people positively choose to live. Are you highly motivated, and looking to advance your career with our award winning Revenues team? Do you have an inquiring nature, an analytical mind, enjoy solving problems and possess strong attention to detail skills? We are looking for an experienced officer who will be able to undertake a range of property inspections throughout the district in relation to claims for discounts and exemptions. You will visit premises under construction and liaise with property developers, builders and owners to serve completion notices and visit empty premises to establish liability. With excellent IT skills, you will have the ability to use a variety of computer systems including Microsoft Office packages and internet use. Experience of working to tight deadlines and excellent organisational skills are imperative to this role. This is a fixed term contract for 12 months.

About You

The successful candidate will be confident, enthusiastic and able to work under pressure in a busy environment. you will be required to undertake a variety of work, have the ability to multi task and use your own initiative. As well as being highly motivated, you will possess excellent planning, and time management skills as you will be required to work independently and plan and monitor your daily workload, whilst liaising with your work colleagues in the office. You will utilise your knowledge and analytical skills as an experienced officer to maintain databases for both council tax and non domestic rates, and submit reports of changes and updates to the Valuation office Agency. Additionally you will be required to attend and present evidence to Valuation Tribunals. You must have the ability and confidence to make appropriate decisions, possess a high level of written and oral communication skills through multiple channels and committed to offering first class customer service. Please note the successful candidate will require a satisfactory basic DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) check. The closing date for applications is midnight on Friday 2nd June 2023 Interviews will be held on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th June 2023 For an informal discussion please contact: Terri Saunders on terri.saunders@north-norfolk.gov.uk 01263 516070, or Carl Copping on carl.copping@north-norfolk.gov.uk 01263 516093, or Emma Poynter on emma.poynter@north-norfolk.gov.uk 01263 516338

About Us

We're committed to promoting equality of opportunity for the people and communities of North Norfolk. We respect and value difference in our district and across our workforce, and we want everyone to feel included and able to play their part in making North Norfolk a great place to live, learn, work and visit.

Our coast and environment are really important to us. We are part of Coastal Partnership East, an organisation with responsibility for our coastline from Holkham to Felixstowe in Suffolk. We have a net zero strategy, and a team of people working to deliver these important initiatives.

As one of the largest employers in the district, we offer a number of benefits that are open to all employees. We have a really supportive culture of enabling our people to learn and grow through attending courses, e-learning, and their day to day job roles. Our office in Cromer is clean, modern and light with onsite lunchtime catering, and free onsite parking.

We have an active health and well-being group with a new strategy, mental health first aiders, employee assistant program, employee discounts portal, and salary sacrifice schemes (bikes, home electricals and EV car leasing).

We have a great forum for communication with regular updates from Directors and Chief Executive, employee voice through our Staff Focus Group, and great working relationship with Unison, our onsite recognised union.

Most people that work for North Norfolk District Council can enjoy a great work life balance, as part of our hybrid approach to work. If your role supports hybrid working, and we've shown you all that we need to for your job role, all we ask is that you have a stable and reliable internet connection.

In terms of the numbers, if you are new to the public sector, you’ll enjoy 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and when you’ve been with us for five years, this increases to 30 days (assuming the role is full time). We provide access to a great pension scheme, based on your local authority career average earnings.

North Norfolk District Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and we encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.