Gazetteer Custodian

As our Gazetteer Custodian you will maintain, develop and promote the Gazetteer Street and Address information to internal and external stakeholders in line with the Council’s legal and statutory obligations.

You will provide a ‘joined-up’ coordinated approach to supporting the business, understand its customers and their proximity by providing a single unique address reference for every property.

Your next role

Joining Swindon Borough Council as our Gazetteer Custodian is your chance to make a difference and provide a valuable contribution to the development of the town.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead as the Land and Property Gazetteer Custodian for the Council, employing Delegated Powers to create and legally register all naming and numbering of properties and streets within the Borough under the Town Improvement Causes Act 1847 and Public Health and Safety Act 1925.

You will also lead as Local Street Gazetteer Custodian to add all new roads, adoptions, Additional Street Data and Designation information and to update the National Hub and internal stakeholders as required. To analyse, interpret and comment on new legislation affecting changes and report the implications to your senior manager.

Part of the role is for you to consult with Councillors, Parish Councils, Developers and others including Emergency Services, and send to Royal Mail to negotiate, agree and implement street naming themes.  You will also undertake research in order to create suitable themes for street naming.

About You

• You must be educated to A level standard or relevant compensatory experience.
• Be expert in Gazetteer data standards, BS7666, Street Naming and Numbering Acts, Highway Law, NRSWA 1991
• Ability to prioritise and execute tasks with a high level of accuracy
• Highly proficient in registering plans geographically and interpreting plans, Section 38 documents etc.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL Gazetteer database with ability to retrieve, cleanse and analyse information from systems
• Good networking abilities and able to communicate with and promote the service at all levels.

Decision Making

• Ability to work with minimum supervision; drawing on expertise within the team, professional networks; and across the Council in relation to legislation, technical specifications and stakeholder management as required
• Ability to make informed decisions on workload priorities
• Ability to make decisions relating to requests from Developers, Councillors, customers and other internal and external requests for Street Naming
• Ability to act on information and communicate with the appropriate stakeholders

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

Your next package

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Please see our Vision and Values page for more details.

Please see our new Swindon Plan

Your next steps

Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

For further information about the role please contact Liz Sheppard, Street Naming and Numbering Manager, lsheppard@swindon.gov.uk

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion

If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk