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Our reference: 20919 FOI

 

Dear Ms Jewell,

Thank you for your request received on the 16 January 2023 in which you
asked for the following information:

I would like information about your council’s staff positions in relation
to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This
information is most likely to be held by a HR department or similar.

 

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

 

1a. How many staff does the Council directly employ (excluding contractors
or subcontractors, and excluding teachers), that work directly for the
Council as opposed to a school, leisure centres or other venture?

 

1b. How many directly employed staff spend 3 or more days per week (0.6
Full Time Equivalent (FTE)) on implementing the Climate Action Plan or
other climate change projects? Please provide a list of all the roles.
Please exclude waste management staff unless they are specifically working
3 or more days per week on implementing the Climate Action Plan or other
climate change projects.

 

If you have answered yes to have a biodiversity planning officer and/or a
retrofit staff member below, both these staff members can be included in
this question even if they are contracted. This is likely to include all
staff in your climate/sustainability team, such as Climate Change Officers
or similar. This may include full time staff who spend 60% of their time
on climate change projects and 40% of their time on other work.

 

You might include other staff in other departments, such as a procurement
officer if they are spending 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE) on writing
and implementing a sustainable procurement policy or a planner that is
working primarily on low carbon policies for new buildings.

 

2. Does the council have one or more staff member who works on home energy
efficiency retrofitting, such as retrofit officers or project managers
across the council area, for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE)? This can
include both directly employed and contracted staff, provided they work 3
or more days per week (0.6 FTE). The work of this officer may include
working on any retrofit projects, including council buildings, council
homes or private rented or owned households.

 

Please list any roles that work in this area, including the full time
equivalent (FTE) if they work part time.

 

Please include staff members that are shared with other councils, such as
between county and district councils, and note if they are shared across
other areas.

 

3. How many planning ecologists (ecologists within the planning
department) or equivalent working for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE)
does the council employ to scrutinise planning reports for Biodiversity
Net Gain? This can include both directly employed and contracted staff,
provided they work 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE).

 

 

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days in compliance with the Environmental Information Regulations
2004/Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless an exception applies. This
means that the council will respond to you by the end of 13 February 2023
at the latest.

 

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request. I would be grateful if you could quote the reference number given
at the top of this email.

 

Kind regards,

Renata

 

Renata Malinowski

Freedom of Information Support Officer

 

Voice of the Customer Team

Customers and Organisational Development

 

Oxfordshire County Council

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Our reference:  20919 FOI

 

Dear Ms Jewell,

 

Thank you for your request of 16 January 2023 in which you asked for the
following information. Please find our response to your questions below in
bold:

 

I would like information about your council’s staff positions in relation
to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This
information is most likely to be held by a HR department or similar.

 

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

 

1a. How many staff does the Council directly employ (excluding contractors
or subcontractors, and excluding teachers), that work directly for the
Council as opposed to a school, leisure centres or other venture? 5,256

 

1b. How many directly employed staff spend 3 or more days per week (0.6
Full Time Equivalent (FTE)) on implementing the Climate Action Plan or
other climate change projects? Please provide a list of all the roles.
Please exclude waste management staff unless they are specifically working
3 or more days per week on implementing the Climate Action Plan or other
climate change projects.

 

If you have answered yes to have a biodiversity planning officer and/or a
retrofit staff member below, both these staff members can be included in
this question even if they are contracted. This is likely to include all
staff in your climate/sustainability team, such as Climate Change Officers
or similar. This may include full time staff who spend 60% of their time
on climate change projects and 40% of their time on other work.

 

You might include other staff in other departments, such as a procurement
officer if they are spending 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE) on writing
and implementing a sustainable procurement policy or a planner that is
working primarily on low carbon policies for new buildings.

 

Assistant Project Manager (Retrofit), 1.00 FTE

Climate Action Delivery Manager, 1.00 FTE

Climate Action Project Manager, 1.00 FTE

Climate Action Policy Officer x2, 1.00 FTE each

Climate Action Projects Officer, 1.00 FTE

Decarbonisation Manager, 1.00 FTE

Director of Planning, Environment, Climate Change, 1.00 FTE

Energy Insights Manager, 0.90 FTE

Environment and Heritage Manager, 1.00 FTE

Head of Climate Change, 1.00 FTE

Head of Environment and Circular Economy, 1.00 FTE

Oxfordshire Retrofit Lead, 1.00 FTE

Senior M and T Consultant, 0.83 FTE

ZEV Team Leader, 0.8FTE

EV Technical Lead 1.0FTE

EV Projects Manager 1.0FTE

Principal Biodiversity Officer, 1.0 FTE

 

Oxfordshire County Council is currently undertaking a restructure/redesign
exercise in our Climate Action team and anticipate recruiting 7 new staff
in April/May.

 

2. Does the council have one or more staff member who works on home energy
efficiency retrofitting, such as retrofit officers or project managers
across the council area, for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE)? This can
include both directly employed and contracted staff, provided they work 3
or more days per week (0.6 FTE). The work of this officer may include
working on any retrofit projects, including council buildings, council
homes or private rented or owned households.

 

Please list any roles that work in this area, including the full time
equivalent (FTE) if they work part time.

 

Please include staff members that are shared with other councils, such as
between county and district councils, and note if they are shared across
other areas.

 

Oxfordshire County Council has a number of posts within the Climate Action
Team relating to domestic retrofit, as follows:

• Oxfordshire Retrofit Team Lead, 1.0 FTE
• Home Retrofit Project Manager (actively recruiting), anticipated to be
1.0 FTE when this post if filled
• Assistant Retrofit Project Assistant, 1.0 FTE

 

Additionally, we actively work with contracted delivery partners on
specific capital retrofit programmes to deliver carbon-savings across the
county. In relation to the domestic retrofit capital grant distribution,
we have: -

 

1.5 FTE for the current Home Upgrade Grant (HUG1) programme, and 0.8 FTE
for the Local Authority Delivered (LAD3) programme

 

3. How many planning ecologists (ecologists within the planning
department) or equivalent working for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE)
does the council employ to scrutinise planning reports for Biodiversity
Net Gain? This can include both directly employed and contracted staff,
provided they work 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE).

 

• Principal Biodiversity Officer, 1.0 FTE

 

OCC is recruiting additional staff to work in this area. We employ
contractors to support this work area for specific cases, but this
wouldn’t equate to 3 days or more days per week.

 

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you could use the reference number given at the top of this email.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Caroline Bing

HR Business Partner (Environment and Place)

Human Resources

Oxfordshire County Council

Email: [3][email address]

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