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 priority attracts attention from the government, media and waste industry.
The Waste Crime team is a small but high-performing unit within Waste and Resources Regulation. Our purpose is to provide strategic direction and shape the organisation's approach to reducing crime in the waste sector by using evidence, expertise and innovation to influence policy, legislation, and resources.
Responsibilities
* Secure sustainable funding.
* Shape strategy to guide the organisation.
* Provide support and expertise to embed strategy effectively.
* Develop metrics and use data-driven insights to assess the scale of waste crime and the effectiveness of interventions.
* Advise and influence Defra to secure effective powers and legislation to stop offending.
* 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.
* Take a lead role in reviewing the Strategy to Reduce Offending in the Waste Sector.
* Engage extensively internally and externally with key stakeholders including Defra, industry and operational teams to shape strategy.
* Utilise data to ensure the strategy is grounded in evidence.
* Develop control plans to translate strategy into meaningful action across the organisation.
Experience and skills
* 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 with experience in planning, managing, and delivering to tight deadlines.
* Ability to re-evaluate how we work to enable effective and efficient delivery.
* Previous experience in regulation and/or enforcement.
* Broad understanding of the waste industry and awareness of strategic landscape challenges in tackling waste crime.
Additional information
You’ll have a national, flexible/hybrid working location with an EA Office base. Some travel and overnight stays may be required. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome flexible working patterns, including job sharing; please indicate your preferred working 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 frameworks/contracts for external recruitment. For more information, contact samantha.clayton@environment-agency.gov.uk or bob.mead@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Applications will be “blind” assessed using competency questions. If you consent to being held on a reserve list, we may offer you an alternative post for up to 6 months.
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