The Animal Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an arm's length body, government agency that sits within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. We have one mission, which is to safeguard plant and animal health, for the benefit of everyone in society, the environment, and the economy. - Every one of our employees is passionate about achieving this mission. The Plant Health Exports & Passporting Lead is responsible for providing technical advice, guidance and direction to colleagues within APHA, Defra, other UK government departments and devolved administrations. Managing a team of experts that are responsible for delivering a technical service to the business You will work across P&BH and policy teams' day to day, whilst contributing to the wider management of APHA and Plant and Bee Health. Your role will be carried out through the leadership of internal technical groups and liaison with wider governmental bodies, policy and external parties. The ability to work at pace with consistency and accuracy is key. Additionally, the successful candidate must have. Furthermore, individuals need to be self‑motivated, have excellent communication skills, be able to work independently and across teams often responding to extremely tight deadlines. The role advertised will involve regular travel to APHA locations and across wider GB. Out of hours and detached duty work may be required in the event of an outbreak or incident. The post-holder will support an on‑call rota for incident management. The successful candidate must have practical knowledge of plant exports and plant passporting. They must also be able to work independently, within teams and lead people. Make key decisions and take responsibility whilst being able to move from one task to another as need arises. Furthermore, the individual must be capable of being able to respond to extremely tight deadlines and be self‑motivated, as well as comfortable networking with people at all levels within APHA, wider government and stakeholders. The role involves presenting through oral, or written means new ideas, or ways of working. You may be required to respond to emergency situations, make site visits as well as potentially work outside core hours, perform detached duty or travel overseas. Key focus for this role is:
* Oversee the operational requirement for the export of goods, including the monitoring of international legislation for meeting the trade of goods under plant health and horticultural marketing.
* Ensure appropriate working groups are advised on new aspects of trade agreements which may affect plant passporting or plant exports. This may include closer alignment with the EU, while maintaining operational and technical support for exports to the rest of world.
* Be responsible for engaging with, advising and providing data for fees and charges across plant passporting, plant health exports and other new activities as they become chargeable.
* Monitor and report on operational delivery plus use of analytical skills to assess data to identify issues and develop / propose sound business decisions.
* Working with IT project teams to develop agile systems which improve business process.
* Work with operational teams to provide training and monitor performance.
* Lead APHA's Technical Advice Panels (TAPs) covering export and plant passporting to ensure internal and external advice is up to date as is internal training for staff.
* Line management of staff.
* Liaison with Defra international, technical and policy teams (plant health risk group, its subgroups and market access working group) along with Forestry Commission, devolved governments and Crown Dependencies on new or changes to policy, fees and legislation across plant health.
* Liaise, engage, share and work with FERA Science on Plant health matters.
* Help identify management information for monitoring future work.
* Develop and lead on Continuous improvement and quality for exports working with other APHA groups with an emphasis on achieving ISO 17020 for plant health exports and maintaining it for plant passporting.
* With technical leads develop and deliver training materials and create ways to monitor learning outputs.
* Produce, maintain and develop stakeholder content including publishing APHA plant passporting updates to trade several times a year.
* For HMI marketing standards and exports activities ensure appropriate dialogue with subject leads to delivery certificates of conformity for relevant controlled goods.
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