Delivery Lead for Packaging Epr Fees and Payment - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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2 weeks ago

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- £52,120 - £64,380
  • National: £52,120 £58,540, London: £57,316 £64,380. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading 'Salary'.
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Grade 7
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DEFRA
  • Environment
  • Resource & Waste
    Type of role:
  • Environment
and Sustainability
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  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 2Contents
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  • Bristol, London, NewcastleuponTyne, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:

In Defra, we address a vast range of issues that profoundly impact on people's lives.

We are responsible for England's environment, our countryside and rural economy, the food and farming sectors and lead responsibility for protection from natural threats and hazards.


The roles will initially sit in the Defra Resources and Waste Directorate and may be allocated to the Scheme Administrator for the UK Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) for Packaging when established.


Resources and Waste goes to the heart of how society interacts with goods and services, from material extraction, industrial production through to how materials are ultimately managed as waste.

Material resource use is fundamental to how our society functions and is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions as well as other environmental impacts such as biodiversity loss.

The 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy signals the path for England to become a world leader in using resources efficiently and reducing the amount of waste it produces and associated greenhouse gas emissions.


Within Resources and Waste, the Collections and Packaging Reform (CPR) program is a part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio, which comprises of the largest, most innovative and highest risk projects and programmes delivered by the government.

As part of CPR, pEPR will require obligated producers to pay the full costs of managing packaging when it becomes waste.

It will provide financial incentives through variation of the fees charged to packaging producers to encourage sustainable design, production and use of packaging.


As a Delivery Lead in the Fees and Payment Calculator team, you will have a unique opportunity to play a critical role in delivering the new pEPR regime.

This is a high profile, fast moving and complex area, with opportunities to put to practice and further improve your technical, project delivery and stakeholder engagement skills, and regular exposure to senior leaders and decision makers.


Job description:

The two Delivery Leads will primary be responsible for ensuring that the pEPR Scheme Administrator is provided on an annual basis with:

  • Up-to-date estimates of local authority costs to manage packaging waste across the UK
  • The level of pEPR fees to be charged to packaging producers to cover local authority costs and, where relevant, incentivise a shift to packaging materials achieving better environmental outcomes
  • Oversee the delivery and improvement of a suite of analytical tools and models underpinning the calculation of LA costs and producer pEPR fees
  • Implement and monitor robust project plans to ensure a timely delivery, to the right quality
  • Oversee the procurement and management of science and evidence projects, for instance to collect waste management cost data, or provide the necessary underpinning evidence to support increasing pEPR fees for some packaging materials
  • Implement and maintain a comprehensive programme of stakeholder engagement, including to support industry's readiness and contribute to answering specific queries

Person specification:


You will also have the right communication skills and experience to engage with technical experts as well as wider stakeholders (e.g., packaging industry, waste management companies, local authorities, environmental NGOs or academia).

You will have experience of confidently advising and building confidence with a wide range of senior leaders, in central or local Government, industry or the charity sector.


You will have strong project management skills, with experience of taking ownership of timely project delivery, and the ability to challenge project teams on their work.


Essential criteria:


  • Experience of successfully leading the delivery of projects and programmes of similar scale and complexity
  • Experience of successfully leading and managing technical and nontechnical staff in a fastpaced delivery context
  • Experience of implementing and using project management techniques, including the use of relevant software
  • Ideally experience and expertise in waste management experience in the wider environmental sustainability field will also be considered for these roles
  • Experience of procuring or managing R&D an
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