Job Description
You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven and adaptable individual to join the Partnerships and Strategic Overview team in Cumbria & Lancashire. Your work will be conducted in a high‑freedom environment that makes staff happier, focuses on health, safety and wellbeing, embraces emergent leadership and supports your development.
Responsibilities
* Assess and provide flood risk comments for permit applications
* Provide permitting advice to customers
* Provide planning responses as a statutory consultee for flood risk management
We provide advice on Flood Risk Assessments to influence the location and design of new developments. We are passionate about our role in delivering sustainable development and safe and resilient places.
We consult on Flood Risk Activity Permits to protect the environment, prevent increasing flood risk and ensure adequate land drainage.
The Environment Agency is fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve.
Team
You’ll join our Partnerships and Strategic Overview Team, working with Flood Risk Management partners to design, develop and deliver flood risk management solutions that enhance communities. We compile, manage and use the best available evidence to inform our long‑term plans and investment programme. We’re a dispersed team and work with a wide range of technical and project teams across the country. We’re part of the Flood and Coastal Risk Management directorate.
Experience / Skills Required
* Ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
* Ability to work under their own initiative and as part of a team.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Deliver work by planning, tracking, gathering and maintaining data/information.
* Good organisational skills, and an ability to use MS Office (Excel skills are desirable) and other relevant applications.
* Ability to assess and use evidence and data to inform decisions and our understanding of risk.
* Understanding of flood risk management, including knowledge of flooding and coastal change within the planning process, basic engineering principles, and fundamental flood risk modelling is desired.
* Driver's licence is not essential for the first 12 months. It will be required once working independently.
Length of Contract
Up to 12 months.
Competence 1 – Flood Risk Assessment / Management
The work involves flood risk technical consultations on planning applications and Flood Risk Activity Permits (FRAPs).
Please describe a piece of work or study when you had to focus on flood risk issues. What were the challenges? What observations did you make? Did you identify any options? Explain the outcome(s).
Competence 2 – Communicates Effectively
Working with a wide range of customers with varying levels of flood risk awareness requires the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately.
You will be expected to communicate and engage with others effectively through speech and writing.
Please describe when you have used your communication skills effectively to convey information and ideas clearly to others;
Who was your audience?
What was the message?
What did you take into consideration to ensure the message landed well?
Competence 3 – Works in Teams
Success in Flood Risk Management is reliant upon team and partnership working. Please describe when you have previously been a member of an effective team;
What was your role in the team?
How did you interact with others in the team to achieve a common goal?
What was your contribution to the team goal?
Competence 4 – Focuses on Customers and Partners
Addresses the needs of internal and external customers, provides rapid and effective responses.
Understands the concept of Internal and External customers.
Ensures a consistent message, balances the needs of a range of customers, handles complaints effectively.
Please describe a time where you successfully provided excellent customer service.
Did you resolve an issue? Managed the customers’ expectation? What was the outcome?
Contact
Any queries, contact szandy.vezer@environment-agency.gov.uk.
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