Our client in the South West (Devon) is looking for an experienced Licensing officer. The key purposes of the job are to improve and maintain public safety within the local area by ensuring effective use of licensed control over specified activities, including; premises licences, gaming licences, pavement cafe licences, hackney carriages, private hire vehicles, sex shop licences, street trading, etc.
You will work in conjunction with the licensing team and the wider department/Council to ensure effective business support, covid enforcement and compliance with legislation by licence holders and other persons who may need to be licensed.
For this role it is essential that you have a solid background in Licensing and enforcement. You must be an excellent communicator as you will interacting with trade representatives and members of the public. Although this role will be predominantly home working, you will be expected to be in Devon a couple of times a month and therefore proximity and travel must be considered seriously before applying.
The client is looking for someone to start ASAP and the contract will rin for an initial 6 month period with the likeliness of an extension afterwards. The working hours can be flexible between 3-5 days and the pay will be £20-£25ph.