Waste Crime Engagement Specialist - 9570

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North West
Penrith , Preston
Lutra House, Ghyll Mount
Staff Grade 5
Permanent
Full Time
Other
£34,330
You’ll play an important role an ambitious programme to transform how we prevent, disrupt and tackle waste crime, planning and delivering engagement with partners and communities across England. You’ll empower others to prevent and disrupt waste crime by helping them understand what waste crime is, how to stop it, report it, and avoid becoming a victim.
You will influence internal and external stakeholders and work in partnership to achieve joint outcomes for waste crime. Internally, you will build an engagement strategy for the next few years, co-ordinating engagement activities across the area and national enforcement service to ensure our work is targeted, effective, innovative and efficient. You will also be responsible for providing leadership on national waste crime engagement plans.
You will be engaging stakeholders to deliver waste crime prevention and disruption messages.

Responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to the planning and development of a national engagement plan
• Plan and deliver a local engagement plan
• Keep stakeholder analysis and engagement plans up-to-date
• Monitor and record engagement activity across the programme
• Identify new opportunities for engagement
• Support Defra Communications using key waste crime messages
• Compile written case studies of completed engagement
This is an exciting opportunity to join an area Customer and Engagement Team. You’ll develop this new role to help partners, business and communities prevent and disrupt waste crime, protecting the environment and legitimate businesses.
The prevention and disruption of waste crime activity is part our strategy to ensure that we, our partners, and our communities share intelligence, and are able to respond effectively to existing and emerging waste streams being targeted by criminals.
You’ll be an excellent communicator and confident in engaging with people and organisations. Gained through experience in planning and delivering high quality engagement across multiple work areas in a community and/or partner engagement role, ideally with enforcement agencies and partners such as HMRC, Police Forces, and Local Authorities etc.
It would be desirable for you to be familiar with waste regulation, waste crime, or environmental issues caused by poor waste management.
You'll be a quick-learner, with a strong customer-focus, and a desire to make a difference.
Leading projects and coaching others will come natural to you. You'll be organised and have excellent attention to detail, ensuring our work is delivered to a high standard.
You'll be able to work as part of a team and individually and prioritise an interesting and varied workload. You will be good at working under pressure, working flexibly and at pace, and delivering outcomes.
Closing date: 18th December 2018 at 23:55

This is a full time, permanent opportunity
This role will be based in Penrith or Preston. Travel to other Environment Agency offices will be required as part of the role.
For an informal discussion about the role contact Katherine.austwick@environment-agency.gov.uk,

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Level of security checks required: Basic Check

18/12/2018, 23:55 hours

Basic Check
Communicates Effectively
Listens and questions to understand and engage. Conveys information and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively through speech and writing
Achieves Results
Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets.
Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results
Focuses on Customers and Partners
Addresses the needs of internal and external customers, provides rapid and effective responses
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