Number of jobs available: 1
Region: South East
City/Town: Home Working , Reading , Wallingford
Building/Site: Kings Meadow House, Red Kite House
Grade: Staff Grade 5
Post Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Role Type: Operational Delivery
Salary Minimum: £37,462
Job description
If you are passionate about our water environment and want to have a lasting impact on water availability whilst ensuring it is protected and enhanced for future generations then you’ll want to be part of the Integrated Environment Planning Team.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with experience of water resource planning to help us to manage and respond to the many demands on the water environment in the Thames.
As a Water Resource Specialist, you will:
- be jointly responsible for the local delivery of water resources service
- influence and support the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) and associated water company plans
- build and maintain productive and influential relationships with internal and external customers including water companies
- contribute to the coordination of drought planning and response
- leadership and/or provide specialist advice to local and national working groups and projects
- provide specialist advice to senior managers facilitating resolution of complex or contentious issues.
Working with colleagues and partners, you will seek optimal solutions to environmental problems, and advise on the regulatory requirements that will help to create a better place for people, wildlife, and businesses.
Working with operational teams, national colleagues, and external partners.
The team
The Integrated Planning (IEP) team is part of the wider Environment Planning and Engagement (EPE) department. You will join a fantastic team of environment planners and water quality specialists focusing on water resources activities.
The team works to strengthen our evidence base and drive integrated delivery to achieve best outcomes for the Thames catchment.
IEP team provides environmental evidence that informs and drives local priorities and influences decisions on investments for environmental improvement.
Experience/skills required
The ideal candidate will have significant relevant experience’ of:
- strategic water resource environment planning tools and techniques.
- Good research/analysis skills, supporting an ability to make proportionate, evidence-based inferences/proposals from information.
- Experience of gathering, maintaining and quality-assuring data/information.
- Good organisational skills/discipline and the ability to plan, track, deliver and evaluate work.
- Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a larger, cross-functional/multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to build and maintain productive and influential relationships with internal and external customers including water companies.
- Sensitive to the needs of the internal and external customers and able to deliver outcomes through these.
- Ability to prioritise and deliver work to relevant standards and tight deadlines.
- Experience of translating internal guidance and instructions into local delivery.
Contact and additional information
The team is based in the Environment Agency’s Thames Area; there will be a requirement for some travel to attend some meetings at locations in Thames Area, but location for the role is flexible.
The Environment Agency is committed to a culture of inclusion. We can learn and deliver our environmental outcomes better with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting for our team, we welcome applications from all members of our community. We support flexible working, so please clearly include your preferred working arrangements on your application.
For any questions relating to this role, please contact Sarah Dix 07825 716309 or sarah.dix@environment-agency.gov.uk
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Closing Date: 18/06/2023, 23:55 hours
Level of security checks required: Basic Check
Competence 1: Achieves Results
Description
We recommend using the STAR technique when answering capability questions.
Description
Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets.
Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results.
Please describe a time when you delivered successfully in the face of considerable challenges or obstacles and with limited instruction.
Competence 2: Strategic Environment Planning
Description
We recommend using the STAR technique when answering capability questions.
Description
Develops, delivers and implements strategic plans for the sustainable use, protection and improvement of our environment.
Describe a project you have been involved with that delivered an environmental outcome.
Competence 3: Influences and Persuades Others
Description
We recommend using the STAR technique when answering capability questions.
Description
Presents a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly; often succeeding where logic and reason alone would fail.
Describe a time when, in the face of considerable challenge, you have successfully persuaded a key stakeholder round to your point of view.
Competence 4: Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
Description
We recommend using the STAR technique when answering capability questions.
Description
Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.
Tell us about a time when you have had to co-ordinate information from a variety of sources in order to solve a difficult technical problem.
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
