Regeneration Officer

Full Time, Permanent

The Regeneration Service is a progressive, multi-disciplinary team that works across Council departments, with partners, stakeholders and communities to enable sustainable, inclusive growth and placemaking, and to harness the benefits of growth to improve residents’ quality of life.  

Join us and support the delivery of high-profile, strategic regeneration programmes that will bring forward new homes, jobs, leisure, local employment opportunities, cultural and social infrastructure and strategic infrastructure projects.

Our Regeneration Programmes are designed to unlock priorities in the Bristol City Council Economic Strategy, which outlines our vision for, and commitment to, creating a fairer, greener Bristol, where all of our residents are supported to thrive. And this is linked to the West of England Growth Strategy, which aims to transform our region, with a focus on Central Bristol.

What will I be doing?

There is a permanent post available in the Regeneration team, which will initially be focusing on the City Centre Regeneration programme.

You’ll be responsible for supporting project managers in the planning, organisation and implementation of different high profile, complex regeneration projects contributing towards the delivery of new homes, community and cultural infrastructure, high-quality public realm and local employment opportunities.  

You will be expected to take the initiative to work independently on certain tasks and be agile and open-minded in your way of working.

Tasks will include:

• Planning and leading consultation and engagement events.
• Commissioning and managing project work to support regeneration delivery.
• Developing strong working relationships cross-departmentally internally, including with Development Management, Cultural Development, Property, Legal, Highways, Community Development, Communications and Engagement.
• Building good relationships to address and respond to the day-to-day queries with key stakeholders, developers, local organisations and consultants.
• Producing regular programme and project reports.

 

What do I need to have?

If you have a passion for creating great places and experience of working in a project delivery environment, we would welcome an application from you. Ideally, you’ll also have experience of regeneration work including, community engagement and stakeholder management alongside preparing, maintaining and updating project documentation such as business cases, benefit plans, risk logs and highlight reports, project communications and successfully supporting the delivery of projects. 

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

For informal enquiries please contact Sarah Jenkinson, Regeneration Manager sarah.jenkinson@bristol.gov.uk    

Closing date: Friday 14^th June 2026 
Interview dates: Likely to be w/c 22^nd June
Start date: July-August 2026

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

The personal information section (including your name) you’ll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers, but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.