Environment Planning Specialist

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Would you like to help protect and enhance our water environment?

Do you enjoy working with environmental information and data, and have experience in water quality, water resources or catchment planning?

As an Environment Planning Specialist, you’ll be part of a team that uses data and evidence to help inform and influence integrated working and investment in environmental improvement projects. You’ll work with others to ensure that our data is accurate and reliable. You’ll contribute your knowledge to plans and reports, providing advice to other teams, working groups and senior managers.

Our team focuses on water quality, catchment planning, water resources and the commissioning of our area’s water monitoring programme, so there’s a variety of work to get involved with and specialise in. We work with numerous teams within the Environment Agency, plus external organisations such as. Natural England and water companies, so you’ll build productive and influential relationships with a variety of customers and partners.

We support membership of an appropriate professional institute such as CIWEM and encourage ongoing learning and development.

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.

The team

The Integrated Environment Planning Team works to strengthen our evidence base, drive integrated delivery to achieve the best for Kent and South London’s environment.

The team includes specialists focusing on:

• River Basin Planning
• Commissioning our Area’s monitoring activities
• Water Quality
• Water Company investment programmes
• Drought management.

We work with other teams locally, nationally to shape ways of working, and contribute to our Area’s Local Outcome Plan and Defra’s 25-Year-Plan aims.

Experience/skills required

• An interest in using environmental data and evidence to help plan and deliver multifunctional environmental benefits
• Good research/analysis skills and the confidence to make proportionate, evidence-based decisions
• Proven communication, influencing and networking skills
• Bringing people together and inspiring collaboration and information sharing
• Coaching and mentoring others to improve resilience within the team
• Working under own initiative and as part of a larger, multidisciplinary team

Experience in water quality, water resources or catchment/river basin planning will be an advantage.

The Environment Agency: we don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. We are looking for someone who will live and breathe this ethos to help us achieve our goal.

Contact and additional information

We value a diverse workforce and are fully committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

The role will be based at Orchard House, Addington, Kent. We currently have a hybrid working arrangement with a mix of home and office working.

Interviews will be held in April 2023

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 37 per week

Salary: £37,462.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexitime
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• West Malling: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in West Malling

Reference ID: 26072