Overview
At the Environment Agency we aspire for inclusivity to thrive in our workforce. We embrace equal opportunities and flexible work arrangements, ensuring everyone can contribute and succeed. We are looking for a strategic thinker who sees the bigger picture and is passionate about tackling crime in the waste sector. This Environment Agency priority attracts a great deal of attention and scrutiny from the government, media and waste industry.
You will join the Waste Crime team, a small but high performing team in Waste and Resources Regulation, part of the EA’s Environment and Business Directorate. Our purpose is to provide strategic direction and shape our organisation\'s approach to reducing crime in the waste sector. We use evidence, expertise, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
Responsibilities
* Take a lead role in reviewing the Strategy to Reduce Offending in the Waste Sector.
* Engage extensively internally and externally and collaborate with key stakeholders including Defra, industry and operational teams to shape strategy.
* Utilise data to ensure that the strategy is grounded in evidence.
* Develop control plans to translate strategy into meaningful action across the organisation.
* Secure sustainable funding and shape strategy to guide the organisation.
* Provide leadership on strategic communications and external engagement to deter waste crime.
* Deliver accurate and accessible information to inform, engage, and foster understanding across diverse audiences.
Experience and qualifications
* Ability to build and maintain relationships with colleagues and partners in dispersed and external networks.
* Skilled at persuading others and influencing outcomes from a senior audience.
* Confidence to challenge how we work and be creative in building solutions that support efficiency and effectiveness.
* Enthusiastic, well-organised, and tenacious to keep work moving at pace.
* Clear communicator who works to get the best out of people.
* Track record of achieving results and experience of planning, managing, and delivering to tight deadlines.
* Ability to re-evaluate how we work to enable effective and efficient delivery.
* Previous experience in a regulation and/or enforcement; broad understanding of the waste industry.
* An awareness of the strategic landscape challenges in tackling crime in the waste sector.
Additional information
* You’ll have an EA Office base location; as a national role the working location is flexible / hybrid. Some travel and overnights may be required.
* You’ll have development opportunities and appropriate training provided.
* We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome flexible working patterns, including job share; please indicate your preferred arrangements on your application.
* We have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment.
* The Environment Agency is a Non-Departmental Public Body and uses Central Government frameworks; information on becoming a supplier is available via GOV.UK.
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