Infrastructure Planning Senior Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Natural England

Natural England
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- £33,736
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  • Senior Executive Officer
  • Senior Adviser
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Type of role:
  • Planning
    Working pattern:
  • Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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  • East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

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Strategy & Government Advice (S&GA) comprises a number of Programme-facing and cross-cutting teams. The role is based within Natural England's Planning Team in S&GA.

It offers an exciting opportunity to deliver ambitious conservation outcomes and be at the heart of Natural England's response to a changing planning system.


The Strategy & Government Advice Team supports Natural England's aims by:

  • providing advice, support and delivery of work for the four programmes
- advising Government on the development of its environmental policy relevant to our remit
- developing and delivering new programmes and pilots for the government to support major strategies such as the 25-Year Plan
- leading stakeholder relationships with key national-level partners
- developing internal standards and guidance on novel issues

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?


If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.


The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

  • Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
  • Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
  • Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
  • Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
  • Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing


We are the Government's advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government's 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.


Wherever possible we will accommodate requests for both full-time and part-time hours and other flexible working patterns to help employees achieve a good work/life balance and maintain their health and wellbeing.

From induction to ongoing learning and development, everyone in Natural England is supported to develop their skills and capabilities. Where appropriate there will be offers of training under our apprenticeship schemes.


Natural England is adopting hybrid working - which means that our staff will work from a flexible range of locations, encompassing home, offices (ours and our partners) and relevant sites.

By default, all new staff will be formally linked to one of our 25 offices across England and the expectation is that all new staff will be able to access their local office to be part of the community of staff in their geographic area.


National team roles can be linked with any Natural England office while Area Team roles will be linked with an office in the relevant geographic area.


Job description


The Planning Team provides advice to government on the environmental implications and opportunities of planning and infrastructure policy and practice, as well as guidance and support to operations teams delivering planning casework advice.

It develops and delivers new approaches to support key 25-Year Environment Plan initiatives on net gain and nature recovery; leads stakeholder relationships with key national-level partners and develops internal standards and guidance on novel or complex casework issues.


Fundamental changes are proposed to the planning, infrastructure planning and environmental assessment systems under the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, British Energy Security Strategy and related reforms.

The successful postholder will play a key role in shaping Natural England's response at a critical time, helping to secure opportunities for the natural environment alongside sustainable development and to understand and prepare for the implications of system changes on Natural England as a statutory consultee.

The postholder will work closely with the Infrastructure and Planning Principal Advisers, other staff in the SGA Planning Team, the Sustainable Development Programme team, Operations teams and planning networks as w
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