Integrated Environment Planning Specialist - Penrith, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency

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Penrith, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Number of jobs available- - Region- North West

City/Town
Penrith, Preston

Building/Site

Lutra House, Ghyll Mount

Grade

Staff Grade
Post Type
Permanent

Working Pattern

Full Time, Part Time/Job Share

Role Type

Operational Delivery

Salary Minimum £37,46

Job description
Are you passionate about Cumbria and Lancashire's rivers, lakes, and coastal waters? Do you have an interest in environmental improvements?

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to take on this critical role in addressing the nutrient challenges in some of our most highly protected environments.

Focussing on catchment plans that will reduce excessive nutrients and improve water quality you will have the opportunity to use your environmental knowledge, data management skills and communication abilities to work across multiple disciplines to facilitate environmental improvements.

You will develop and implement these plans and in doing so you will:

bring together monitoring data, modelling, and other evidence on nutrient challenges in key catchments

- work with internal and external partners to refine the evidence base and identify measures that will result in positive environmental change
- secure multi agency agreement and drive identified measures through to implementation
- engage with other relevant catchment strategies, plans, and projects to integrate and address nutrient challenges, and in doing so develop a sustainable future for our environment

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.

The team
The Integrated Environment Planning (IEP) team is a water planning team with specialists in water quality and water resources. We use data and evidence to plan and prioritise the delivery of environmental outcomes. We achieve this by working with others, bringing people together to ensure we are focusing on the right activities to drive major investment from others. We participate in a wider national community of professionals working in water management.
Experience/skills required
You'll have good organisational skills/discipline and the ability to plan, track, deliver and evaluate work, meeting relevant standards and timescales
You'll have the ability to gather, maintain, analyse and qualityassure data/information and to make proportionate evidencebased assessment/proposals.
You'll have experience of using evidence to explore problems and propose effective and innovative solutions.
You'll be selfmotivated and work under your own initiative and as part of larger, multidisciplinary teams.
You'll be an excellent communicator, experienced at making sense of technical information and presenting it in a clear and logical way.
You'll have effective influencing skills and be able to persuade internal teams and external partners to work collaboratively when developing and delivering environmental outcomes.
You'll be diplomatic, sensitive and demonstrate political awareness when dealing with customers, stakeholders, and communities.
Desirable: Membership (or working towards) of a relevant professional institute (e.g. CIWEM)
Contact and additional informationThis is an areabased role, based out of either the Preston or Penrith office, we are currently operating a hybrid working approach with both office and home working requirements. We are open to flexible working patterns and specific requirements.