Closing Date
2025-11-07
Job Title: BNG Strategy & Technical Specialist
Location: Falmer or Durrington (hybrid, 2 days per week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: circa £55,000 (depending on skills and experience)
We are excited to announce a brand new position has been created to join our Environment & Innovation team as a Biodiversity Net Gain Strategic & Technical Specialist.
Joining our rapidly growing Environment Strategy Team, this role will be a great opportunity to support the development and technical delivery of our new BNG Strategy.
The Environment & Innovation team is at the forefront of Southern Water’s drive to enhance and protect the environment. Deploying the latest innovative solutions and working in partnership with our customers and stakeholders, the team takes an holistic approach to managing water quality and flow across the region. Currently delivering a £50million portfolio which rapidly expands to over £2 billion over next 10 years. This is a fast-paced team that is now expanding to continue to deliver a larger programme of sustainable and innovative solutions.
Job Overview
The role will support the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Strategy Lead to increase biodiversity across Southern Water’s operating region leveraging BNG and helping communicate the emerging BNG Strategy. This will be achieved by setting up project management infrastructure, developing and managing GIS-based systems and putting in place reporting mechanism to effectively and accurately measure, record, manage and monitor the delivery of both BNG and wider habitat creation opportunities across the business.
1. This role will support the strategic delivery of BNG by setting up new geospatial systems
2. This role will support the BNG Strategic Lead, using project management approaches to research, liaise, and develop a pipeline of BNG projects, partnership working opportunities and commercial opportunities.
3. They will manage and maintain a data base, GIS systems and reporting mechanisms to support the delivery of BNG enabling the delivery of wider benefits for people and nature.
4. The post holder will have a key role in communicating the BNG strategy inside and outside of the business.
About You
5. Proven technical expertise in developing, implementing and managing GIS-based systems.
6. Proven technical expertise and a background in project management, including the development of tools/approaches to deliver projects to time/cost/quality such as Gantt charts, risk registers and budgets.
7. Proven technical expertise in developing approaches to effective project /programme level reporting (e.g. Power BI dashboards).
8. Experience of working with stakeholders (internal and external) to co-develop spatial datasets and reporting mechanisms.
9. Good understanding of current and emerging environmental legislation especially relating to BNG, habitat creation, nature conservation and planning.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between either of our Durrington or Falmer offices and home. We are offering a salary of circa £55,000 as well as other benefits including:
10. Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
11. 25 days annual leave
12. Life assurance equal to 4x salary
13. Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
14. Health Cash Plan
15. Full funded eye tests
16. Two paid volunteering days a year
17. Occupational health service
18. Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
19. Digital GP service
20. Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
21. Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
22. Cycle to work scheme
Join our Environment & Innovation team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.
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