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Staff Grade 5

Permanent

Full Time, Part Time

Operational Delivery

£37,462

Do you have a passion for protecting our precious water? Are you motivated by the chance to influence the way national water resources infrastructure is developed? If so, this may be the opportunity for you.

Water companies are developing a number of regionally and nationally important Strategic Resource Options (SROs) such as reservoirs and water transfers to be construction ready by 2025-2030.

Working with area and national technical specialists across the business and a range of stakeholders including RAPID, water companies and consultants, your role will involve leading technical assessment of biodiversity and geomorphology impacts of SROs.

The role will involve ensuring a consistent approach is taken to environmental monitoring and assessment; informing development of appropriate mitigation measures. The role will support progress of these large infrastructure projects through an aspiring development and planning timeline.

Keeping track of developments in relevant biodiversity and geomorphology strategy and policy, you will work with specialists across the organisation to help deliver a consistent approach to assessment, including Natural Capital Assessments and Biodiversity Net Gain; and emerging areas of policy that need to be progressed or resolved.

Your great communications skills and ability to build relationships quickly will help you excel in this role.

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents, or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

In this technical role you will work with the National Appraisal Unit (NAU) to oversee the environmental assessments of strategic water resources supply options and provide timely, consistent and robust evidence-based recommendations to RAPID and other key stakeholders.

The role is part of a dispersed team and not location constrained. As well as being part of the NAU, the role will involve working as part of internal and external virtual teams along with RAPID.

We are seeking an individual with experience in biodiversity and/or geomorphology. You’ll be qualified to at least degree standard in a relevant discipline, and have experience working on multi-stakeholder projects, as well as delivering results to tight deadlines. The ideal candidate will have all/a majority, of the following skills:

• Highly motivated self-starter/self-learner with good interpersonal skills and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Functional knowledge of biodiversity legislation (such as Habitats Directive Regulations) and/or Water Environment (WFD) Regulations assessment and/or functional knowledge of geomorphology assessments
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships.
• Adept at working both collaboratively, as part of a virtual team, and independently
• Ability to handle multiple work streams and priorities

We offer flexible working with a mix of home and office working with this role based at one of our hub offices. The role will require some travel to other Environment Agency sites, external meetings and occasional overnight stays.

If you would like to know more about the role please contact Katy Steed, Senior Officer, on tel. 07388387825 or via email [email protected] or Elliot Tinton, Manager, on tel. 07795390157 or via email [email protected].

We welcome applications from anyone with the relevant skills to undertake this role.

More information can be found in the candidate pack. We aim for an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity in the communities we work with and the environment we protect.