Critical Sites Manager - 35460

The Environment Agency is fully committed to having an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We don't just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it, and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities, and our environment.

The EA is uniquely placed to support the government’s growth mission while ensuring the environment is protected and enhanced.

We need an influential, enthusiastic and strategic leader to set up a new team to bring forward high profile growth sites while ensuring environmental protections. This includes leadership of the Lead Environmental Regulator programme and leading intensive interventions on difficult sites, where a range of expertise from across the organisation is required to resolve complex problems.

You'll lead a small team who'll deliver this work under your strategic direction. You'll manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, aligning effort across the organisation to support sustainable growth, innovation, and improved ways of working.

You'll drive cultural and behavioural change, ensuring our work supports the government’s growth mission while fulfilling our responsibility to protect and enhance the environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• overseeing efficient programme leadership, including capabilities and capacity.
• building strong partnerships, developing new relationships, and driving innovation to find solutions.
• working with external organisations such as government departments, local authorities, water companies, and the private sector on specific sites, and building those relationships to develop the pipeline of work and strategic interventions.
• providing leadership and assurance for high-profile projects including leadership of the Lead Environmental Regulator programme, ensuring effective advice, risk management, and alignment with organisational strategy.
• leading and developing teams, modelling inclusive behaviours, and improving communication and engagement.
• using data, evidence, and risk information to guide decisions to understand where interventions would have the greatest value.

You'll join the Planning and Place team, which is part of the Nature and Place Directorate. We're committed to delivering sustainable growth while protecting and enhancing the environment.

We are a welcoming, inclusive, supportive and fun team, based across the full breadth of the country. We work collaboratively across our planning teams, and with operational colleagues across the country to deliver our planning service.

Essential skills include: 

• leadership experience in partnership development, stakeholder management, and building strong internal and external relationships at a programme or organisational scale.
• management and leadership experience including inspiring and motivating teams, with a focus on efficient and effective delivery.
• experience leading complex programmes, projects, or operational improvements in a regulatory, operational, or development environment.
• comfortable working with data and confident challenging assumptions, and communicate complex information appropriately across all business levels.
• you'll be able to work comfortably in a collaborative and inclusive way to find new ways of delivering.

Understanding of planning and permitting regimes and environmental regulation would be beneficial, but critical is the ability to bring together the right experts, and a genuine enthusiasm for solving problems.

Please attach your CV to your application, as we will be conducting a separate review of relevant experience.

You’ll 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. 

You’ll 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’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.

Any queries, contact claire.porter@environment-agency.gov.uk

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