Regeneration Officer
Regeneration officers deliver programmes designed to improve and renovate buildings, to bring them up to date in design, health and safety compliance, and current usage.
The Role
- Negotiating
- Maintaining heritage while designing for the future
- Financial management
- Finding flexible solutions to problems
- Communicating with the local community, stakeholders and senior management on the progress of projects
- Implementing plans for sustainability
- Assessing environmental impacts
- Managing consultations with landowners and developers
- Using feedback to shape proposals
- Liaising with other departments
- Working alongside the local council, relevant landowners and other developers
- Taking responsibility for ensuring that a regeneration project was fit for purpose
- Creating project briefs so work can be commissioned
- Identifying key priorities that need to be addressed
Salary
- Newly trained regeneration officers/co-ordinators can earn in the region of £25,000–£35,000
- Trained with experience regeneration officers/co-ordinators can earn in the region of £35,000–£45,000
- Senior Regeneration Officers/Co-ordinators can earn in the region of £45,000–£80,000
Qualifications & Training
As a technical role, a regeneration officer/co-ordinator requires a BSc Honours Degree in a construction, engineering, or environmental related subject in England; the equivalent L6 NVQ / HNC in Wales, or the Scottish equivalent, will most likely be required. Some positions will require a Masters Degree as well, or chartered status with a relevant body.
However, experience is often very important too, so entrants with other qualifications might be considered. For example, experience of sustainable design, current and forthcoming building regulations, and low/zero carbon technology are important. 
