Job Overview
Join the Environment Agency as a Water Resources Officer (up to 18 months FTC) to protect and improve water quality for wildlife, people and future generations in Hertfordshire and North London.
Responsibilities
* Advising on water resource licence applications, including abstraction and impoundments.
* Responding to requests for data and information.
* Supporting the delivery of projects and investigations related to abstraction activities.
* Supporting work to protect chalk streams and aquifers.
* Updating water resource assessments and abstraction licensing strategies.
* Supporting the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP).
* Providing technical administrative support to other team members.
Qualifications
* Good organisational skills, discipline and ability to plan, track, deliver and evaluate work.
* Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a larger, cross‑functional/multidisciplinary team.
* Good research/analysis skills, supporting an ability to make proportionate, evidence‑based inferences/proposals from information.
* Experience gathering, maintaining and quality‑assuring data/information.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.
* Knowledge of hydrology, water resource management, or GIS highly desirable.
The role will be based in Welwyn Garden City, with flexible home/office working. The Environment Agency values diversity and offers flexible working patterns. For further information please contact Rob Fox (Rob.Fox@environment-agency.gov.uk). Interviews are expected to be held in person early to mid December at the Alchemy Office in Hertfordshire.
Contract Length
Up to 18 months.
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