Water Resources Drought Co-ordinator - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

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Number of jobs available- - Region- South West, West Midlands

  • City/Town
  • Birmingham, Kidderminster, Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury, Fradley


  • Building/Site

  • Riversmeet House, Hafren House, Mance House, Sentinel House, AQUA HOUSE BIRMINGHAM B3 1AQ


  • Grade

  • Staff Grade
  • Post Type
  • Permanent


  • Working Pattern

  • Full Time


  • Role Type

  • Environment & Sustainability, Information Technology, Operational Delivery, Knowledge & Information Management


  • Salary Minimum £37,46

  • Job description
  • As part of the area integrated planning team, you will be at the heart of ensuring the area is resilient and ready to respond to drought to safeguard the environment and water supplies.
This is an opportunity to shape our incident management response to drought and build area drought resilience.

You will work across the Integrated Environment Planning (IEP) and Area Incident Management (AIM) teams to ensure our Concept of Operations (ConOps) is incident ready, and work with your local drought experts to plan and deliver drought response improvements.

You will work across the hub to ensure that each area in their hub has a current drought plan, a resilient level of drought capability and incident capacity.

As part of the national drought communities of practice (water supply, agriculture, regulation), you will help deliver lessons learnt from recent drought, develop guidance (internal and external), develop and deliver training and work with external partners in testing and training.


In addition, you will:

  • Shape approaches to drought planning providing advice and technical support to area, panarea and national teams.
  • Providing support to key incident roles helping us meet the demands of improving our incident preparedness.
  • Support area and national operations input during drought, being agile to meet the business need.
  • Act as a drought specialist to deliver drought management, planning, preparedness, and response.
  • Guide and advise others on drought issues, ensuring decisions are made on sound technical grounds
  • Maintain links with national drought groups / staff on behalf of WMD Area raising area issues and feeding back to Area Drought Leads. This includes the national drought practitioners' group.
  • Identify external engagement opportunities across the area and hub
  • Participate and lead projects to deliver learning from recent drought and planning for drought.


  • The team

  • The role will sit within the Integrated Environment Planning team providing support and building a knowledge base on drought planning activity and response to maintain environmental performance within the area and the wider business.

Experience/skills required- Your excellent interpersonal and project management skills will be complimented by your ability to achieve results, solve problems, and communicate technical issues in a clear and concise manner to a range of audiences.

Your technical knowledge may be drought based, or incident management with a background in water resources and a passion to develop your expertise further.

Through your experience you will be able to demonstrate the following:

  • Good interpersonal skills, communication, and presentation skills.
  • Selfmotivated and able to work on your own initiative or as part of a dispersed team.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience of building relationships.
  • Ability to work across Area teams, panarea, OCS and E&B for a joined up and nationally consistent approach.
  • Good judgement, problem solving and decisionmaking skills.
  • Good planning & organisational skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and deliver to tight timescales.
  • Contact and additional informationAs 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
Interviews will be held remotely from week commencing 11th September.
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