Closing Date: 15 January 2023 | Salary: £32,876-£36,229 (Grade 5) | Location: Bangor
Contract type:
- 200217 – Permanent
- 200235 – Fixed Term appointment until 31 March 2023 but with the possibility of being extended or made permanent
Work patterns:
- 200217 – Part time, 30 hours a week including Friday
- 200235 – Full time, 37 hours Monday – Friday
Post numbers: 200217, 200235
As an organisation we support flexible working. This role allows hybrid working (a mix of home and office working) and a working pattern suitable for you can be discussed on appointment if you are successful.
You will be contracted to the NRW location stated in this advert, of which you will be required to attend for regular meetings, training and for one-to-one meetings with your manager. These will be planned in advance.
Job description
Environment Team activities lie at the heart of delivering the Sustainable Management of our Natural Resources in Wales and tackling the Climate and Nature Emergencies.
As an officer within an Environment Team, you would have a focus on the water environment helping the team deliver improvements to the rivers and their catchments within the county of Conwy. The work will include responding to pollution incidents and using both regulatory tools and working in partnership to address water resources and water quality issues.
You will be field and office-based, you will need to write reports, collect evidence and engage with a variety of stakeholders in the private and public sectors. The ability to communicate well both in writing and verbally is therefore essential for this role.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and professional officer who can work at a fast pace, often to tight deadlines and who is able to effectively prioritise their workload to deliver more for the environment. If this sounds like you – apply now!
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include:
- Work with a wide range of internal and external customers including permit holders, landowners, businesses, public bodies, recreation groups, volunteers and third sector organisations to enable others to achieve sustainable management of natural resources (SMNR).
- Establish, maintain and advise partners to support the development of partnership projects and plans from concepts to implementation. These projects will deliver outcomes aligned with place priorities.
- Assess compliance with relevant legislation, permits or consent conditions. Where non-compliance is identified, determine and implement the most appropriate intervention option to ensure a return to compliance as quickly as possible. Take appropriate actions to collect evidence for enforcement purposes, in accordance with defined procedures.
- Draft valid consents and assents for operations affecting protected sites. For all work areas produce required advice, investigations, documentation and reports to agreed quality standards to support operational and management decisions, protected site notification, public enquiries, court cases etc so that information, evidence and NRW interests are accurately and effectively presented.
- Within your area of expertise, provide professional local advice and responses to consultations from planning and permitting teams. Maintain working relationships with these teams through regular liaison.
- Monitor progress of work, which may include interpretation of data, contractor management, project delivery or compliance with management agreements or statutory legal notices. Identify and support any remedial actions to ensure outcome delivery.
- Play a role in a resilient NRW Incident Management Service that follows NRW process to ensure effective, timely and safe response to incidents.
- Required to take part in incident response activities.
Qualifications, experience and knowledge
Knowledge and experience of the following:
- A good working knowledge of environment management, agriculture, fisheries, conservation or biodiversity, with focused experience in one of these distinct areas of the team remit.
- An understanding of how these multi-functional teams can contribute to the sustainable management of natural resources.
- Ensure continuing professional and personal development, expertise and competence through formal and informal learning and certification.
- Strong and effective self-management and organisational skills.
- The ability to influence, negotiate and gain cooperation of others. Experience of dealing successfully with difficult people/situations is important.
- The ability to use specialised IT systems, such as GIS or NRW customised applications.
- Able to work well as part of a team.
- Hold a current full UK valid licence to drive NRW fleet vehicles. (cars and vans)
Welsh language requirements:
Post 200217:
Essential Level 3 – Able to communicate with confidence in Welsh in some work situations or the candidate will be expected to develop their Welsh language skills to this level following an agreed training programme.
Desirable Level 4 – fluent in spoken Welsh
Post 200235
Essential Level 1 – able to pronounce Welsh and use basic phrases
Desirable Level 4 – fluent in spoken Welsh
Please note if you do not meet the Welsh level requirement then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Competencies
Please note – Applications to this role will be assessed based on the following competencies, both at shortlisting and interview. Please give examples of how you demonstrate these competencies when completing your application form.
| Essential Knowledge and Skills | Expertise gained in a defined area or function, enabling the post holder to provide advice and guidance to others.Demonstrates a sound understanding and appreciation of the work of the wider function.Has good literacy, numeracy and communication skills including well developed customer facing skills.Experience of supervising others is desirable. |
| Evaluation of Information | Demonstrates the ability to understand information, procedure manuals, statutory codes and legislation and interpret and apply the requirements to undertake their role.Able to analyse and process non-routine technical information, containing a degree of complexity. |
| Decision Making and Autonomy Requirements | Ability to decide how best to achieve results, requiring some degree of judgment and creativity and the need to alter priorities where there are conflicting demands.Able to solve problems and make decisions of a technical nature; primarily around their own area of work but will also cross over with the work of others.Problems and decisions may contain a degree of complexity and require the need to apply different techniques or methods.Ability to undertake research to determine how best to resolve issues.Able to provide guidance to less experienced members, to resolve problems. |
| Communication and Relationships with Others | Demonstrates the ability to interact and communicate with people around their area of expertise, across a range of functions within NRW and external parties, adapting their approach and style appropriately.Well established inter-personal and communication skills with the ability to develop and sustain good working relationships, which may involve a degree of influencing. |
| Responsibility for Resources | Responsible for the safe and legal use and keeping of tools and equipment used to carry out their work.Post holders will have oversight of contractors and the associated costs. |
Benefits of working for us
This role will offer a range of benefits, including:
- agile and flexible working (role dependent)
- Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 26.6% to 30.3%
- 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
- generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
- health and wellbeing benefits and support
- weekly well-being hour to use at your choice
See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.
How to apply
Please send a completed Application form to Applications@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk using the post number as the email reference
Before completing your application, please read our Guidance on completing a job application form
Application closing date: 15 January 2023
Interviews will take place through Microsoft Teams.
If you have any queries about the role, please contact Charlotte Williams at charlotte.williams@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk or 07468708106
Natural Resources Wales embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition.
We welcome and encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented, including women, black and ethnic minority groups and people with a disability. We have a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
We put the principles of human rights, equality, fairness, dignity and respect at the heart of our values.
