Integrated Environment Planning Specialist - 32158
Job Description
Are you excited by the idea of developing and delivering integrated plans across a broad range of environmental specialisms, to maximise joined‑up, data‑led improvements?
The Integrated Environment Planning Team (IEP) in West Midlands Area Operations offers the perfect opportunities to find a fulfilling role if so.
The role involves championing integrated working by spotting and acting on opportunities to bring multiple teams, workstreams, and data sources together to achieve more. This role is critical to resolve the complex, interlinked issues facing the environment, such as water quality, water resources, biodiversity, land management and flood risk management.
The role also contributes to and benefits from strong technical networks to help drive 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.
The Team
The IEP catchment planning & WFD team consists of specialists in catchment planning, WFD, waste planning and data visualisation. We are a team of experienced advisors, 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 across operational teams within the West Midlands Area and National colleagues.
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.
* Good organisational skills with ability to plan, track, and deliver to set timescales, working under your own initiative.
* Understanding of environmental planning at catchment and river basin scales and ability to see connections across a range of planning processes such as River Basin Plans, Water Resource Management Plans, Local Plans, and Local Industrial Strategies, with a focus on enabling sustainable growth.
* Understanding of Water Framework Directive, water quality issues and catchment‑based approach would be an advantage.
Technical Skills Advantage
* Geographic Information Systems
* Power Query
* Power BI
At the Environment Agency we value our employees, recognise individual circumstances and champion the importance of maintaining a health work/life balance. We support employees to grow in a direction that reflects their passion. As such, you’ll have the opportunity to develop with bespoke training available in areas of interest including externally recognised qualifications. Everyone that joins 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 an active way to support communities and prevent harm to the environment. Further information on incident response can be found within your candidate pack.
If you have any questions about this role, please see the candidate pack or contact James Reed (James.Reed@environment-agency.gov.uk).
Competence 1 – Data and Information Management
Please tell us about your experience successfully using data to identify, plan and deliver a multi‑disciplinary environmental outcome.
Competence 2 – Focuses on Customers and Partners
Please evidence how you ensure that you have a clear focus on the needs of customers and partners in delivering your work.
Competence 3 – Influences and Persuades Others
Please describe how you present a case in a convincing and attractive way that wins people over, and how you succeed in getting them to follow your plans willingly.
Competence 4 – Strategic Environment Planning
Please explain how you expect to contribute to strategic environment planning in West Midlands Area in this role.
Note for Civil Service applicants
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Although the Environment Agency is a non‑departmental public body sponsored by Defra, we subscribe to and align with the candidate guidance on the use of artificial intelligence found on the Civil Service Careers website. Please review for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Other
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