Senior Officer - 9295

1
North West
Warrington
Richard Fairclough House
Staff Grade 5
Permanent
Full Time
Environment & Sustainability
£34,879
We are the Environment Agency. We protect and improve the environment, helping to ensure that people can enjoy it. We look after the water and air environment, and land quality, promoting sustainable land management and helping protect and enhance wildlife habitats. We also work closely with businesses, enabling them to operate whilst complying with relevant environmental regulations.

The National Permitting Service has accountability for delivering the majority of the Environment Agency permitting/licencing responsibilities. Our service includes nearly 500 people, offering technical challenges and significant opportunities.
We’re looking for two permanent Senior Officer who will be based in the Water Resources permitting team at Warrington.
As a Senior Officer you’ll provide high level advice, support and coaching to team members ensuring decisions are made on sound technical grounds in line with best practice. We are looking for a technical leader, encouraging applications from related Water Resources disciplines to nurture and grow our technical skills as well as your own.
Crucially you will have good communication and be a collaborative team player. Essentially making our processes more efficient, improve ways of working, make risk based decisions and continuously drive down our end to end times for our customers.
You’ll join a small evolving permitting team, of newer/established team members dealing with a range of permitting activities, providing a great opportunity to further your career. With a real mix of experience, we deal with small farm holdings up to Nuclear power stations. Supporting businesses throughout England whilst crucially delivering for the environment. Enabling fish passage, wetland and habitat creation, reducing abstraction in sensitive areas and delivering the recent drought permits to protect the environment.
A successful Senior Officer will need experience in Water Resources or wider related Environmental Management and a degree (or equivalent) in a Science or humanities subject as well as experience of assessing a range of complex permits. The following is also essential;
Experience of Water Resources or a related subject
Drive for risk based decision making/continuous improvement
Good communication, organisation and planning skills
A good team player and strength in positive collaborative working
Good coaching skills and the ability to explain complex issues to people with a range of experience
Technical Leadership to support NPS business aims
Excellent customer relation skills
Ability to develop technical and personal skills within a team

A thorough knowledge of relevant legislation
The ability to work collaboratively with others both internally and externally

Experience of dealing with sites of high public interest or complex applications is desirable as is a thorough knowledge of relevant legislation.
Closing Date: 13th March 2019 at 23:55 hours

For further information, please contact:
Rob McHale, Permitting Team Leader – 020302 50964 – robert.mchale@environment-agency.gov.uk.

The candidate information pack contains further information.

Please note the role will primarily be office based, although infrequent travel will be required to attend meetings or training.

13/03/2019, 23:55 hours

Basic Check
Focuses on Efficiency, Innovation and Quality
Identifies and seizes the opportunity to create, introduce and implement new or improved methods, processes and without, compromising quality or accuracy.
Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.
Delivers Results Through Others
Harnesses the team to deliver results on time, to required standards and in line with organisational processes and procedures.
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. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.

This Vacancy is closed to applications.