Partnerships Internship – Summer Placement - Warrington, United Kingdom - United Utilities

Description

Partnerships Summer Internship 2024

Job ID: UU00485

Location: Lingley Mere Headquarters, Warrington, UK. Possibility for some hybrid working as well as office based working, to be agreed with line manager during on boarding process. The candidate will need to ensure that they can travel to Lingley Mere Headquarters in Warrington on a regular basis and when required.)

Duration: 10 weeks

Salary: £23,152 per annum (pro rata based on duration)

Working Hours: 37.00 per week

Introduction

United Utilities provides water and sewage services to seven million people across the North West of England. It's a big job and a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to keep things running smoothly for our customers. From operating our pipes and improving water quality, to embracing new technologies and safeguarding the local environment – whether you're in our head office or out on site, there's always plenty going on. Our internship programmes will give you the opportunity to learn first-hand how we make this happen.

Role Overview

United Utilities is committed to achieving integrated water management within the five counties of the North West of England, to benefit customers, society and the environment. This commitment has brought an exciting opportunity for a Partnerships Intern to work across United Utilities and with partner organisations to support the scaling up of this approach.

The successful Partnerships Intern will work directly with the Place Based Planning Managers in the Catchment Planning, Conservation and Partnership team. See key responsibilities for more information.

The Catchment Planning, Conservation and Partnership (CaPCoP) team is newly formed and responsible for providing environmental leadership through developing and embedding robust plans which promote nature-based interventions and protect the natural ecosystems our services rely on. The team work in an integrated and collaborative manner with other teams in United Utilities, as well as with partner organisations to drive our Catchment Systems Thinking (CaST) approach.

This is an exciting opportunity to gain more experience and understanding of how United Utilities is building capability to integrate the management of water at a sub-regional level and drive partnership working. The business will need new processes, systems, and ways of working to adopt a more integrated approach, which will require individuals who have the right interpersonal skills to support this change. Ultimately, we want to be sector leading and demonstrate this to our regulators at PR29.

It is an excellent time to join the team as key deliverables such as the Greater Manchester Integrated Water Management Plan and Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) are high profile within the business. It is also a fantastic platform to gain exposure to lots of teams within the Asset Management directorate and around the business as a lot of the team's interactions is outward facing.

The CaPCoP team are a diverse group of people who have a lot of industry knowledge and expertise and have experience of supporting those in their early careers to get the best out of their placement.

This is a great opportunity to get exposure to the environmental sector, notably environmental work conducted within the water industry. Skills you will develop include data analysis, interpreting data, report writing and internal and external communications. As your internship progress there will be substantial scope to take on additional responsibilities as you gain more experience and gain exposure to other areas of the team.

Don't worry, we won't throw you in at the deep end. You'll have mentors and managers with you as you progress through your placement and support you as you work towards your personal development goals.

You'll be joining a team based at the United Utilities head office in Warrington and an organisation just voted the 19th best place to work in the UK as voted for by users of Glassdoor. You'll enjoy life on our leafy campus surrounded by over 2,000 colleagues who all help to provide great service for our 7 million customers.

What we are looking for

You will be aiming for a minimum of a 2:1 in an environmentally focussed degree such as Geography, or Environmental Science (although other degree disciplines with relevant experience and knowledge will be considered), and be at least in your penultimate year of study.

You must have a researched knowledge of the water industry and United Utilities. You must have a strong and well-developed analytical skills, with an attention to detail, ability to interpret and analyse data and contribute towards recommendations that consider the needs of the environment, customers and businesses. Ability to use GIS is beneficial but not essential.

You should possess excellent written and interpersonal skills and have the ability to communicate and influence across multiple stakeholder groups, including being able to creatively use a range of media and presentation skills for qualitative and quantitative information in a means that can be understood by all.

You must be highly computer literate (in particular word processing, spread sheets, presentations). You must demonstrate a willingness to learn and genuine interest in/curiosity about partnership working. You must be motivated and enthusiastic, understand the importance of team work and possess ambition and drive to succeed and make the most out of your internship. You should be able to be comfortable working flexibly across a range of tasks and activities to deadlines and be able to prioritise your time.

Key Responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to support in the continued development of United Utilities partnership working. Adapting to climate change, addressing the impact of population growth and meeting increasing environmental expectations require a Catchment Systems Thinking approach and much deeper partnership working. In order to achieve this we need to scale up our work with partner organisations such as local authorities, NGOs, flood risk management authorities and land owners by integrating our planning within a specific geography.

Key responsibilities for this role are:

• Support the development and management of a partnership opportunity pipeline for United Utilities to ensure there is a single place for visibility of emerging partnership projects that can be tracked through to delivery.
• Support in the communicating the partnership opportunity pipeline to wider stakeholders across the business.
• Support the Place Based Planning Managers to develop work process maps which will ensure smooth handover of partnership opportunities into the delivery teams for progression.
• Support in the development of regulatory requirements for partnerships and partnership working.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring that the activities listed above are delivered on time and to a high quality.

Other responsibilities will be to:

• Support the Place Based Planning Managers with analytical tasks when the need arises;
• Support the CaPCoP team co-ordinate performance reporting.

The role holder will also have access to other focal groups within the wider directorate which they may choose to get involved with, such as:

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Health, Safety and Wellbeing
• Engagement

Benefits

If you want to join an FTSE 100 company that wants to disrupt the water industry and you want to make a positive change in the world we would like to hear from you.

We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Due to the length of your programme you will be engaged via our resourcing partner Reed Talent Solutions.

Internship Duration

10 weeks

We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.

If you are offered a job with us, a number of pre-employment checks need to be carried out before your appointment can be confirmed. Any offer of employment with United Utilities will be subject to a satisfactory checking report from the Disclosure Scotland / the Disclosure and Barring Service.