Senior Licensing Officer – Birmingham City Council

Closing Date: 18/02/2025

Employer Birmingham City Council

Location Birmingham

Closing date18 Feb 2025

Reference 2692

Senior Licensing Officer

Permanent

Grade 4 – £33,366 – £40,476

Consultation grade – subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

This role supports the Principal Licensing Officer in managing the licensing team, focusing on hackney carriage and private hire licensing. Key duties include overseeing licensing processes, ensuring compliance, liaising with stakeholders, preparing reports, attending meetings, and maintaining records. The position supervises a team of 10, upholds customer service standards, and deputizes as needed. Strong knowledge of licensing legislation and flexibility for out-of-hours work are essential.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached. 

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact: Jade Pheby at jade.pheby@birmingham.gov.uk 

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Non-UK applicants (excluding Ireland) would be required to hold a relevant Visa from the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).

Job Description and Person Specification

Please apply HERE