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
Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone?
Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you!
We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
Are you interested in working with the Water Industry? If so this opportunity could be for you!
We work in a national team, in the Environment and Business directorate, helping to plan and to implement plans for the Water Industry related to protecting and improving environmental water quality. The water industry is due to invest through the 2024 Price Review to improve the environment. Our team is integral in helping to achieve these investment levels. Planning for the next price review and River Basin Management Plan starts imminently and we need you.
The role is extremely varied and requires a range of transferable skills. We work closely with teams focusing on price review, River Basin Management Plans and Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans. You will be given opportunities to work with a range of other teams and your skills will help to embed our work within theirs. The ideal candidate is highly motivated and collaborates effectively in a team atmosphere. Our small team has developed relationships with internal and external customers. You will be sensitive to the needs of customers whilst working within the bounds of legislation and guidance.
This is an exciting time to join the team to help steer the work that the water companies do.
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.
The team
We’re a friendly dispersed team and promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture. We work with a wide range of teams both internal and external. We’re part of the Environment and Business Directorate which supports the Environment Agency by using evidence, expertise, and innovation to enhance and help delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources. We steer the direction, set the priorities, and shape our organisation’s approach to future water industry environmental water quality actions.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for a talented and dynamic team member to contribute to our work. You will be highly motivated and able to work independently.
You’ll have:
- A degree in an environmental discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills –able to identify your audience, know their needs, and use an effective and engaging style of communication both written and oral.
- Ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and encourage others to consider diversity issues at work.
- Ability to identify opportunities for improvements and efficiencies, develop new approaches/processes and embed them successfully.
- Numerical confidence.
- Knowledge of how to develop new workstreams and land them within the wider business.
- An understanding of water quality issues and policies.
- Ability to respond to tight deadlines, prioritise, work quickly and accurately to ensure actions are completed.
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 lucy.burton@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Applications will be “blind” assessed using your answers to the competency questions.
Interviews will be held using MS Teams and most likely during 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: Influences and Persuades Others
Description
Presenting 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.
Please tell us about a time when you have successfully influenced someone? Did you have to alter your approach in any way and if so, how?
Competence 2: Legislative Knowledge
Description
Applies a knowledge of statutory environmental and technical requirements to protect both the Environment Agency and the environment.
Can you tell us about a time when you’ve had to use your knowledge of a water quality legislation, or multiple legislations, to achieve an outcome?
What was the outcome you were aiming for?
What was the legislation and how was it applicable?
Where there any challenges to overcome?
What was the outcome that was achieved?
Competence 3: 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.
In relation to the competency takes decisions and solves problems efficiently can you tell me about a time when you have had been faced with an especially complex issue at work and have had to decide the correct course of action.
- How did you gather the information to make your decision?
- What decision making criteria did you use?
- How did you ensure your decision was appropriate for your stakeholders?
- What was the outcome?
- What did you learn from this situation or process?
Competence 4: 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 struggled to persuade influence or persuade people in relation to a work issue. What where the challenges? What approach had you taken? How did you amend your approach? What was the final outcome?
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.
