Number of jobs available: 1
Region: National
City/Town: All
Building/Site: All
Grade: Staff Grade 5
Post Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Compressed Hours
Role Type: Environment & Sustainability, Strategy
Salary Minimum: £39,635
Job description
We are fully committed to having an 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.
Are you motivated by the opportunity to influence and improve the environmental performance of water companies? This opportunity may be for you.
Water companies’ environmental performance is currently the subject of intense public and political scrutiny. This is an exciting time to join our team, working agilely with others to regulate. You will play a crucial part in informing stakeholders to take action. You will help increase the effectiveness of our communications to protect and improve the environment for people and wildlife.
We will increase the influence we have with accurate, timely and engaging performance reporting, and improve the understanding of performance by advising on trends and root causes. Your communication skills will engage stakeholders using presentation, data, information and intelligence to maximise influence.
We are looking for an independent thinker to shape and add value in performance assessment and communication. You’ll work in a virtual national team in a fast-paced role. You’ll need to innovate and understand stakeholders’ perspectives, whilst also having remote team working skills. You will be instrumental in developing new metrics and implement them within the business and sector.
This is a dynamic work area so you will need to think strategically, act pragmatically and influence others to drive forward our objectives and meet goals. You’ll work across various teams covering multiple aspects of water company performance including water, waste, pollution incidents, permit compliance and investment schemes.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role or provide business continuity support during an incident
The team
We are a friendly, progressive, dispersed team and promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture. We work with a range of teams across the organisation. We are part of the Environment and Business (E&B) Directorate which supports the Environment Agency by using evidence, expertise, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources. We steer the direction, set the priorities, and shape our organisation’s approach to regulation.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for a talented and dynamic self-starter. You need to have:
- A degree in an environmental discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
- Knowledge of water companies and their data/ performance
- Strong data analysis and interpretation skills to present information effectively
- Excellent communication and influencing skills – able to identify your audience, understand needs, and use an engaging style of communication
- Ability to respond to tight deadlines, work quickly and accurately whilst prioritising
- Independent problem solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to work under own initiative in a dispersed, virtual team environment.
- A strong focus on efficiency, innovation, data quality and communication
- Ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues at work.
- Ability to identify opportunities for improvements, develop new approaches and embed them successfully.
Contact and additional information
We’re committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve, so welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds.
For more information about working for us, who to contact regarding these roles and how to apply please read the Candidate Pack and Additional information document.
If you have any queries, or want to discuss the role, working patterns, base locations etc, please contact bethan.howard@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Applications will be “blind” assessed using your answers to the competency questions.
Interviews will be held using MS Teams during mid June/July 2024.
If you consent to be recruited onto a reserve list, we’ll hold your details for 6 months and we may offer you an alternative post.
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Candidate pack
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Closing Date: 23/06/2024, 23:55 hours
Level of security checks required: Basic Check
Competence 1: Data and Information Management
Description
Collects, analyses, interprets, records, manages, develops and shares data, material or information appropriately for a variety of purposes.
Please tell us how you managed, understood and presented complex information and used it to achieve your goal.
Competence 2: Communicates Effectively
Description
Listens and questions to understand and engage. Conveys information and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively through speech and writing.
Please tell us about a time when you have used a range of communication techniques to achieve an outcome by influencing key players? How did you overcome challenges and alter your communication technique to succeed?
Competence 3: Achieves Results
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 how you have delivered a complex or challenging project/piece of work and explain what the challenges were and what skills and experience you used to overcome them?
Competence 4: Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
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 you had to make a difficult decision and how you went about it to ensure success?
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.
