Number of jobs available: 1
Region: South West, West Midlands
City/Town: Birmingham , Kidderminster , Shrewsbury , Stafford , Tewkesbury , Fradley
Building/Site: Riversmeet House, Hafren House, Mance House, Units 10&11 Greyfriars Bus Pk, Sentinel House, AQUA HOUSE BIRMINGHAM B3 1AQ
Grade: Staff Grade 5
Post Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Compressed Hours
Role Type: Environment & Sustainability
Salary Minimum: £37,462
Job description
Water is at the heart of everything we do, and with a changing climate, an increasingly important resource for people, business and wildlife. We play a crucial role in helping manage many competing demands and priorities.
We need an experienced water resource planner with the skills, experience and, importantly, personal drive and enthusiasm, to help shape West Midlands’ beautiful and diverse environments so we can unleash even more potential and meet future needs.
You will be passionately committed to the environment, a person with vision and strategic thinking, able to identify potential risks and opportunities and work effectively within our team environment to get things done. You will also be a good influencer and work closely with those who hold the key to change. Your development is important to us, so we often support further training to meet your needs and job requirements so you can flourish in the role.
You’ll work closely with a number of teams and Stakeholders within West Midlands Area and our National teams to help manage the River Severn and support our programme of projects to enhance our data and understanding of the Severn to improve future regulation. You will also help shape and deliver our strategic water resource options and plans. You will support our incident response which includes drought, flood risk, or other environmental incidents.
The team
You’ll join the Water Transfer Team, containing specialists in water resources, hydrology and drought planning, working across the West Midlands Area. We’re a team of experienced advisors central to environmental decision making, delivering integrated actions to solve complex problems and maximise benefits for people and wildlife.
We work with internal and external partners to collate, analyse and share data, providing the environmental evidence to inform our area’s priorities.
Experience/skills required
The successful candidate will have a good understanding of our business and environmental activities and have strong IT skills and can demonstrate specialist technical leadership.
You should be qualified to degree level in a relevant environmental discipline. Membership of, or working towards a membership of, a relevant professional institute (e.g., CIWEM) is desirable. Ideally, you will be experienced
- Strategic water resource planning, data analysis/research and/or modelling tools.
- Gathering, maintaining, quality-assuring data, ability to use variety of techniques to present data/information
- Ability to translate guidance and policy into language suitable for the audience
- Self-motivated and ability to work under own initiative, and as part of a cross-functional team. You will have good skills in prioritising and delivering work to required standards, working within the available resource will be essential.
- You will have great organisational skills/discipline and the ability to plan, track, deliver and evaluate own work
Contact and additional information
We are fully committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment, which reflects the communities we serve and where everyone can be their authentic self. We welcome applications regardless of race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity or marital status.
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.
If you have any questions about this role please see the candidate pack or contact Kate Evans (Kate.evans@environment.agency.gov.uk or Dave Preston (David.preston1@environment-agency.gov.uk).
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Closing Date: 09/07/2023, 23:55 hours
Level of security checks required: Basic Check
Competence 1: Delivers Results Through Others
Description
Please note we do not assess CVs. Please note that your answers to the capability questions will be used to determine interview selection so demonstrate your skills and experience in your response. The “EA capability dictionary” can be viewed online. Using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action and Result) can help when formulating your answers.
In this role you will become an expert on managing a regulated river, working with colleagues to meet statutory and policy requirements and working with our stakeholders and partners to best meet their needs and those of the environment. At times this can be a fast and high-pressure role, at other times you may be working with water companies to develop and implement projects to make improvements to the environment.
Describe a project where you have delivered an environmental outcome where you have worked across a number of teams or with partners to achieve this.
Competence 2: Influences and Persuades Others
Description
Describe a time when, in the face of considerable challenge, you have successfully persuaded a key stakeholder round to your point of view.
Competence 3: Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
Description
As an Integrated Environment Planning Specialist in Water Resources you will have a fair degree of autonomy and therefore you will be required to take decisions and solve problems as a matter of course – sometimes related to processes we use and sometimes in relation to technical data.
Tell us about how you have taken information from a variety of sources in order to solve a difficult technical problem successfully.
Competence 4: Numerical Modelling and Forecasting
Description
Describe a time when you have either analysed data or reviewed model outputs to forecast the state of the environment.
- what were the questions you needed to answer?
- what was the model / data source?
- how did you approach the problem?
Role specific professional membership requirements:
- relevant professional institute (e.g., CIWEM) is desirable
- A full clean UK driving licence is desirable
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.
