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 seeking a strategic thinker who sees the bigger picture and is passionate about tackling crime in the waste sector. This Environment Agency priority attracts significant attention and scrutiny from government, media and the waste industry.
Responsibilities
* Secure sustainable funding.
* Shape strategy to guide the organisation.
* Provide support and expertise to effectively embed strategy.
* Develop metrics and use data-driven insights to assess the scale of waste crime and the effectiveness of interventions.
* Advise and influence Defra to ensure 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.
* Lead in reviewing the Strategy to Reduce Offending in the Waste Sector and engage extensively with internal and external stakeholders (including Defra, industry and operational teams) to shape strategy.
* Utilise data to ensure that the strategy is grounded in evidence.
* Develop control plans to translate strategy into meaningful action across the organisation.
The team
You will join the Waste Crime team, a small but high-performing team in Waste and Resources Regulation, part of the EA’s Environment and Business Directorate. Our purpose is to provide strategic direction and shape our organisation's approach to reducing crime in the waste sector. We use evidence, expertise, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
Experience and qualifications
* 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 and experience of 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.
* An awareness of the strategic landscape challenges we face tackling crime in the waste sector.
Development and diversity
You will have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.
Contact and additional information
You will have an EA office base location; as a national role the working location is flexible / hybrid. We use smart tools to stay connected and reduce travel, some travel and overnights may be required.
You will have an inclusive incident management objective in your development plan. We’ll help you find a role to suit your needs. Appropriate training will be given.
Please read the Candidate / Additional Information Pack for information. Any queries, please contact samantha.clayton@environment-agency.gov.uk or bob.mead@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Applications will be blind assessed using your answers to the competency questions. If you consent to being held on a reserve list, we will hold your details for 6 months and may offer you an alternative post.
Competencies
1. Achieves Results - Description: It is your answers given to these questions that will be used for interview selection. Read the candidate pack; consider STAR (situation, task, action, result) when answering. Sets and delivers high work standards, prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results. Describe a time where you have taken a lead role, working with others to deliver a challenging project or piece of work.
2. Influences and Persuades Others - Description: It is your answers given to these questions that will be used for interview selection. Read the candidate pack; consider STAR when answering. Presenting a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly.
3. Shapes organisational approach & delivery - Description: It is your answers given to these questions that will be used for interview selection. Read the candidate pack; consider STAR when answering. Informs Government Policy and/or designs, implements and supports an approach to translate it into cost-effective operational activity delivering outcomes for people and the environment. Describe a time where you have shaped and/or implemented a new approach to a diverse audience.
Note on Civil Service status
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.
Equity, flexibility and recruitment
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all vacancies, including job share. Please indicate your preferred working arrangements on your application. We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment, guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Note on procurement
The Environment Agency is a Non-Departmental Public Body and uses Central Government frameworks for external recruitment. We are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls. If you wish to become a support supplier on these frameworks, visit GOV.UK for more information.
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