About You
About You
Want to help deliver one of the most complex contract transitions in the organisation?
Do you thrive on keeping projects organised and making sure nothing slips through the cracks?
Are you someone who finds purpose in supporting teams through periods of change and building strong working relationships?
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
You'll play a vital role in supporting internal and external stakeholders, helping the team stay organised and informed. This includes managing documents, coordinating communications, and contributing to a collaborative and inclusive working culture.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and neurotypes. If you value clarity, consistency, and meaningful work, this role offers the flexibility to work both from our Mansfield office and remotely.
About the Department
You'll be joining the Environment Department, which is responsible for protecting and enhancing the environment across former coalfield areas. The department plays a central role in ensuring our Mine Water Treatment Schemes (MWTS) continue to safeguard water quality and local ecosystems. This mobilisation project is a key priority for the department, ensuring continuity of service, and compliance with environmental obligations.
About The Role
In this role, you'll provide essential support to the mobilisation project team, helping to keep things running smoothly and efficiently. Your responsibilities will include:
* Coordinating travel bookings and site visits (including to MWTS sites)
* Planning and supporting project-related events and meetings
Taking minutes during mobilisation and demobilisation meetings
- Managing emails, scheduling meetings, and tracking actions
- Communicating clearly with colleagues, contractors, and stakeholders
- Additional responsibilities relevant to the mobilisation project may include:
- Assisting with asset registers, stocktake information, and site data collection
- Helping track progress against the mobilisation/demobilisation checklist
You'll bring strong administrative skills, experience working in a project team, and confidence using Microsoft Office tools. While much of your work will be desk-based, you'll also have opportunities to visit our MWTS sites and contribute to mobilisation meetings and events.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
We don't expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
Application closing date: 19th October 2025
Sifting date: 20th October 2025
Interviews: 23th and 24th October 2025
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
* A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
* Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
* Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
* Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
* Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
* Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
* Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
* Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
* Unlock exclusive employee discounts
* Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
* Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We're united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We're proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values.
We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers. This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role.
If you're successful in joining us, it's because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution. By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of being trusted, inclusive, and progressive every day.
If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at or call us on We are happy to support you through the process.