Agriculture Technical Assistant - Blandford Forum, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency

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Blandford Forum, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Number of jobs available- - Region- South West

City/Town
Blandford Forum, Bridgwater, Chippenham

Building/Site

Rivers House Blandford, Chippenham Sub Area Office, Rivers House Bridgwater

Grade

Staff Grade
Post Type
Permanent

Working Pattern

Full Time, Part Time

Role Type

Environment & Sustainability

Salary Minimum £25,04

Job description
We are looking for a highly organised and enthusiastic graduate or other person to support the work of our Land & Water Agriculture teams in Wessex. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a team working with farmers to help create a cleaner, safer and healthier environment in Wessex.

The Agriculture teams work directly with farmers to protect and improve our local environment and as a Technical Officer.

You will provide technical support to enable them to meet their business targets and ultimately help to secure positive outcomes for people, wildlife and the environment.

You will support the team by:

Receiving and responding to enquiries, acting as a point of contact for the team, ensuring requests are responded to in a timely manner and ensure statutory deadlines are met
Administering team inboxes, ensuring adherence to records management requirements and the retention schedule
Updating and maintaining the team's filing system (paper and electronic) to ensure that information is accurate, up to date and available to use
Assisting Officers with agricultural regulatory and enforcement administration, including helping Officers to prepare for and maximise site visits
Contacting farmers to gather updates on any improvements made on farm to bring them in to compliance
Generating compliance data reports for use by Team Leaders and National colleagues
Organising and coordinating training and team events
Liaising with our Customer and Engagement team to promote our work externally

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
You will be welcomed to a lively and dynamic Environment Management department. The teams regulate farming activities, water discharges and water abstraction licences to ensure compliance with environmental legislation. We also undertake pollution incident response and carry out investigation and enforcement work, including working with partners and customers to influence behaviour and encourage good practice to improve the quality of our precious environment.

Experience/skills required

We are looking for someone who has:
excellent written and communication skills with an ability to manage and present information in a clear, comprehensible style and format

- the ability to prioritise tasks to make effective use of time and meet deadlines
- excellent organisational skills
- the ability to be tactful with customers
- a flexible approach, knowing when to call upon colleagues for help and support
- the ability to work on their own as well as part of a team
- the ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues, customers and partners
- proficiency and perhaps skills to be innovative in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and a willingness to learn about our internal IT systems and procedures,
- mapping skills, for example using digital maps to identify key features
- a background in agriculture would be beneficial, although not essential

Contact and additional information
This role can be based in Bridgwater, Blandford or Chippenham although some travel between offices may be required. We work flexibly with some home working permitted.