Overview
Integrated Environment Planning Specialist – 32158. The role involves developing and delivering integrated plans across a broad range of environmental specialisms to maximise joined-up, data-led improvements.
The Integrated Environment Planning (IEP) team in the West Midlands Area Operations focuses on spotting opportunities to bring multiple teams, workstreams, and data sources together to achieve more. The role is critical to resolve complex, interlinked environmental issues such as water quality, water resources, biodiversity, land management and flood risk management, and contributes to strong technical networks for best practice and continuous improvement.
You will be involved in the commissioning, integration, analysis, and visualisation of data to help technical teams and area leadership target resources and identify priorities.
Team
The IEP catchment planning & Water Framework Directive (WFD) team consists of specialists in catchment planning, WFD, waste planning and data visualisation. We are experienced advisers central to environmental decision making, who facilitate integrated actions to maximise benefits for people and wildlife. We work closely with sister IEP teams dealing with water resources, water transfer and water quality, and with operational teams within the West Midlands Area and National colleagues.
Responsibilities
* Champion integrated working by spotting and acting on opportunities to bring multiple teams, workstreams, and data sources together.
* Commission, integrate, analyse, and visualise data to help target resources and identify priorities for technical teams and area leadership.
* Contribute to and benefit from strong technical networks to drive best practice and continuous improvement.
Experience / Skills Required
* Analytical, open-minded, collaborative thinking – craft compelling, evidence-based, action-oriented narratives from complex information.
* Excellent communication and influencing skills – produce clear persuasive written material and visualisations and brief senior colleagues and customers.
* Strong data literacy and visualisation capabilities – able to extract, combine and analyse data from multiple sources, respecting data quality and integrity and create insightful visualisations.
* Desirable: Geographic Information Systems; Power Query; Power BI.
* Good organisational skills with the ability to plan, track, and deliver to set timescales, working independently.
* Understanding of environmental planning at catchment and river basin scales and ability to see connections across planning processes such as River Basin Plans, Water Resource Management Plans, Local Plans, and Local Industrial Strategies, focusing on enabling sustainable growth.
* Understanding of Water Framework Directive and water quality issues and catchment-based approaches is advantageous.
Contact and Additional Information
We value a diverse and inclusive workforce and support flexible working patterns for all vacancies, including job sharing. Please include any information about your preferred working arrangements on your application. The Environment Agency offers bespoke training and externally recognised qualifications. Everyone joining us is required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties. Having an incident role is an essential part of working for the Environment Agency and supports communities and the environment. Further information on incident response is in your candidate pack.
If you have questions about this role, please see the candidate pack or contact James Reed (James.Reed@environment-agency.gov.uk).
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. The Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service; if applying from the Civil Service you would not be a Crown Servant upon appointment. For local government or similar roles, you may be eligible for continuous service for redundancy payments. Contact your HR team if unsure of your status. We welcome flexible working and guarantee an interview to applicants with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria. The Agency uses government frameworks for recruitment; details are in the candidate pack.
Artificial intelligence can support your application, but all examples must be truthful and based on your own experience. Plagiarism may result in withdrawal of the application. See Civil Service guidance on AI use for more information.
Seniority level
* Associate
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
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