Regulatory Environment Officer – Waste and Land & Water regimes – East Anglia - 20196

We are passionate about the environment and making it better for communities and wildlife now and for future generations.

The Environment Agency protect and improve the environment. We work closely with businesses helping them comply with environmental regulations, at times enforcing the law and all the while making sure operators improve their performance. We work to ensure people can enjoy the water for recreation, the land on which we live and breathe clean air. We protect lives through our flood defence schemes.

As an Environment Officer, you'll play a critical frontline role protecting the environment helping create a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for people and wildlife. Dealing with a wide range of environmental issues from permitted and illegal operation, to rivers and waterways, ensuring all activity happens without harm to people, wildlife or the environment.

The role is varied, vital and at times challenging. You’ll be responsible for regulating a range of activities to ensure they are carried out without polluting the environment or causing harm to people. Sometimes having to take tough action to achieve these aims and occasionally need to investigate environmental offences. You may also be required occasionally to give evidence in a court of law.

The Environment Agency operate across England via 14 geographic Areas. You'll be based in one of our great Environment Management Teams in East Anglia Area.

You'll be part of either a Waste or Land and Water team. Waste teams focus on operators and companies in the waste sector. Land and Water teams oversee water companies and agriculture.

For either team you'll be working both outdoors and indoors. You'll also respond to environmental emergencies and incidents.

We are flexible about your experience. You may be good at dealing with difficult situations, a new graduate or experienced in regulation. Whatever your background, you’ll be interested in the environment, making a difference and using environmental regulation, sometimes needing to deal with confrontation.

Demonstration of the right behaviours is most important to us, we are looking for people who enjoy working both outdoors and in an office environment and can show us they are:

• Organised and able to prioritise.
• Confident and assertive.
• IT/computer literate.
• Willing to learn about environmental regulation and enforcement.

And can:

• Handle confrontational people.
• Adapt their communication style to suit others.
• Integrate into a team.
• Record information correctly.

Do not be put off applying if you don’t have a degree or other qualifications, we will provide all the training you’ll need.

A full UK driving licence is essential.

The Environment Officer role is a career grade position starting salary of £23,446 which will increase as you move through the training. Please read the candidate pack for further information about the role, salary and benefits we offer.

We are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. A study by the jobs’ website Glassdoor shows that we are among the best employers for offering staff a good work-life balance.

For any questions relating to this role, please contact:
Roger.Thomas@environment-agency.gov.uk or Liz.Robinson@environment-agency.gov.uk

Interviews are scheduled to take place in early January 2022. Start dates from March 2022.

If you do not anticipate being available to start work from March 2022 you can still apply as we hold a reserve list for these jobs.

Please note we do not assess CVs. The answer you give to the question below will be used for interview selection so it is important to demonstrate your skills and experience in your response.

Using an example, describe how you have used a range of communication methods to present your views to an audience in a convincing way.

• Tell us about the audience.
• What were the messages?
• How did you communicate the messages?
• What considerations did you make to ensure each message landed well, and
• How did you alter your communication style to suit the audience?

Your examples do not have to be work-related, so please use the best examples from any area of your life.

Please note we do not assess CVs. The answer you give to the question below will be used for interview selection so it is important to demonstrate your skills and experience in your response.

Describe a time when you persuaded someone to do something that they didn’t initially want to do. Explain the process you went through and how you sought to understand the other person’s point of view.

• What was the situation?
• What were the challenges you faced?
• How did you influence / change their mind?
• What happened?
• What did you learn and is there anything you would do differently in a similar situation in the future?

Please note we do not assess CVs. The answer you give to the question below will be used for interview selection so it is important to demonstrate your skills and experience in your response.

Please provide an example where you have found potential problems and identified effective solutions by analysing all relevant information, seeking to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.

• What were the problems?
• How did you identify the best solution?
• What was the result?
• Could you have done anything differently?

Full UK Driving Licence