Technical Officer

at  Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

ABOUT US:

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is set in the wider county of Berkshire, one of the most economically productive and innovative areas of the country. The borough council – a unitary authority - takes pride in its exceptional team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about providing quality services to the community. RBWM is a unique borough, with huge opportunity given its proximity to London and expanding business sectors, as well as being a major cultural and tourism area which includes international attractions such as Windsor Castle, Legoland and Ascot Racecourse.Given our Royal connections, the eyes of the world are often on us and we continue to rise to the challenge.
This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic Temporary Technical Officer to join our Land Charges team.

THE ROLE:

To provide technical and administrative support to the Land Registry project in terms of identification, collection, recording and quality of spatial data across multiple Council services. Data capture is essential to this role. You will report directly to the Service Lead for Information Governance and Elections.

YOUR ROLE WILL INVOLVE:

• To access, retrieve and update deferral records from the Land Registry System and to locate the relevant planning file, held either in the Planning system (Uniform), in paper form, on CD or microfiche.
• To retrieve historic applications held on microfiche from basement storage and to view microfiche to locate plans and spatial extent.
• To interrogate Uniform data and correct/input spatial extent.
• To read plans to ascertain the spatial extent of the application site.
• To plot the spatial extent of an application into the Land Registry deferral record.
• To liaise with planning technical officers with regards to any planning related queries.