Fisheries, Biodiversity, and Geomorphology Team Leader - 32253

Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you!

We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, effective, proactive leader to join our Fisheries, Biodiversity, and Geomorphology team in the North East. Your work will contribute to helping the Environment Agency create a better place for people and wildlife.

This is a fantastic opportunity to use your leadership skills to bring out the best in your team by setting direction, prioritising delivery, identifying risks, solving problems, and optimising team performance to meet our goals.

You will be flexible in your approach and open to regular change. Most importantly you will be able to connect with people, supporting them to be their best, ensuring their health, safety and wellbeing and developing them in their role.

Key responsibilities include:
•Managing health, safety & wellbeing, demonstrating best practice and ensuring your team work in line with our guidance.
•Promoting inclusion by respecting differences in our workforce, building a supportive & engaged team.
•Motivating and inspiring your team to deliver a consistently high standard of work.
•Managing the performance of your team and supporting team members through change.
•Supporting your team to provide technical advice into relevant programmes, plans, projects to ensure compliance with legislation as well as habitat creation.
•Working with colleagues to identify, influence opportunities to deliver multiple benefits for the environment and to work with natural processes.
•Building effective relationships, working closely with area and national teams.
•Influencing internal/external stakeholders and managing conflicts that may arise.
•Responding to environmental incidents.

The team has a diverse range of expertise which they use to both protect the environment and support nature recovery. . They are highly motivated and are passionate about the work they do.

You will be joining a friendly and supportive leadership team within the Water, Land and Biodiversity Operations Department, who lead together in delivering integrated outcomes for the environment.

•Experience of leading and motivating teams and planning and prioritising work to achieve objectives.
•Proven ability to lead, inspire and develop a team.
•Experience of working with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
•An ability to prioritise, make decisions and provide clear direction to the team so that the biggest risks are managed.
•Evidence of building and maintain productive relationships with internal and external customers.
•A desire to participate in our incident-ready culture, ensuring the team is prepared to respond to incidents and plays its part in the wider Area response to incidents.
•Experience of managing complex budgets and income streams.
•Some background in environmental sciences / geography welcomed, but not essential

For more information about working for us, our extensive range of employee benefits and how to apply, please read the candidate pack and additional information document.

Interviews are planned for early December, which will be held face to face at our Newcastle Office.

The base location for this role is Newcastle or Darlington (Newcastle preferred) but we welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share and some working from home is an option. Everyone starting a new role will be welcomed into the team and given all the training and support needed. As part of your comprehensive induction, you will also be provided with all the equipment required for your role.

For questions relating to this role, please contact Sarah Jennings on sarah.jennings1@environment-agency.gov.uk

It would be anticipated that this role would require some travel, principally within the North East, with some very occasional travel farther afield within England.