23 Oct
Leeds City Council
Leeds
As a Definitive Map Officer in Leeds City Council’s Climate, Energy and Green Space’s service,
you’ll thrive on working within a motivated team to protect, improve and extend the 862 km
public rights of way network in Leeds.
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to play a vital role helping to
deliver statutory services, ensuring the definitive map is kept up date by processing
Modification Orders and Public Path Orders.
It involves working within the planning process to ensure public rights of way are protected
and realise opportunities for investment in these key recreational and sustainable transport
routes across the city to help meet the Health and Wellbeing and Net Zero ambitions of the
Council.
Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We
seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.
About you
As a Definitive Map Officer, you will bring to the role:An ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.
An ability to manage and deliver a varied workload.
Familiarity of public rights of way law and practice and appreciation of the issues
concerning their management, protection and improvement.
An ability to develop and write clear and concise reports.
An ability to interpret maps of differing scales and to accurately depict changes on the
network on GIS.
An ability to interpret historical evidence
The ability to undertake Path inspections to recognised standards
About the role
Reporting to the Public Rights of Way Manager the role provides an opportunity to work across a
range of disciplines to contribute towards sustainable active travel routes. Public Rights of
Way provide an invaluable resource for health and wellbeing activities, principally being
routes for walking, horse riding and pedal cycling and are a key element in an interconnected
green infrastructure for local communities, who seek good quality and well way-marked routes.
Having good cartographic skills, together with experience of using GIS applications, the post
holder will work closely with colleagues to ensure that our Definitive Map is accurate and that
changes to the public path network are in line with relevant procedures. In this regard
knowledge of both Modification Order and Public Path Order procedures is important.
The post is a hybrid role with opportunities for home and office working, as well a requirement
to undertake surveying work on site as required.
▶️ Definitive Map Officer
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