Waste Crime Engagement Specialist - 9269

You’ll play an important role in 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 it is, how to stop it, report it, and avoid becoming a victim or unknowing allowing waste to be handled illegally.
You'll influence internal and external stakeholders and work in partnership to achieve joint outcomes. 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’ll be engaging stakeholders to deliver waste crime prevention and disruption messages. Specific 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 opportunities for engagement
• Support Defra Communications using key waste crime messages
• Compile 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. This will have 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.
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’ll be good at working under pressure, working flexibly and at pace, and delivering outcomes.

Closing Date: 18th November 2018 at 23:55 hours.

This is a full time, permanent opportunity. The role will be based in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
Travel to other Environment Agency offices will be required as part of the role.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Esther van Lith on 0208 4747 299.

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