Flood Risk Officer - Programme Team - 9385

We are the Environment Agency. We protect and improve the environment. We work with government, local councils, businesses, civil society groups and communities to make our environment a better place for people and wildlife.

We’re investing £2.5 billion between 2015 and 2021 to reduce flood risk to 300,000 homes across England. It’s an exciting time and we need your help to ensure we’re prepared for any future flooding.

Your key responsibility will be to provide an efficient support service to the Northumbria Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC). You will also support the wider team’s work in managing the FCRM programmes of works. You can expect to be involved in the following:

• Act as the secretariat for all Committee meetings and sub groups
• Maintaining relationships with external stakeholders (including local councillors)
• Recruitment and induction of new members to the Committee
• Supporting Committee members learning and development
• Briefing Committee members, including distributing meeting papers
• Monitoring progress of projects on the programme

There are also opportunities to get involved with incident management when flooding occurs. We have a flexible range of roles you can volunteer for and you’ll get all the training and support you need.

Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) plays a huge part in the work that the Environment Agency does; helping to protect against flooding and minimising the risks caused by any floods that do occur. The Programme team manages the north east area’s programmes of work. In 2018/19, we will oversee £30 million of expenditure which will better protect 1,000 homes from flooding, maintain our FCRM assets, as well as creating new wildlife habitat.

Through experience to date, you should be able to demonstrate most of the following:

• Good knowledge of the work of the Environment Agency and of Flood and Coastal Risk Management
• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with customers
• Ability to provide consistent, high quality customer service
• Experience of supporting committees
• Fantastic organisational skills
• Taking minutes in meetings
• The ability to use your initiative and manage your own varied workload
• Ability to write clear reports
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel

Excellent communication skills are a must for this role as you’ll be working with a diverse range of people.

The key thing we are looking for is energy, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. If you don’t have experience in flood risk management, but feel you have the transferrable skills for this role, please do not be put off from applying.

Closing Date: 27th November 2018 at at 23:55

Please note that that your answers to the capability questions will be used to determine interview selection.

Everyone starting in a new role with the Environment Agency will be welcomed into the team and given all of the training and support you need to succeed. There are also fully funded opportunities to develop further academic/professional qualifications.

The Environment Agency offer an extensive range of employee benefits.

For further information on this role, the employee benefits and the work of the Environment Agency, please download the candidate pack.
For any questions relating to this role, please contact Jenny McCarthy on 020 8474 6488.

Interviews are scheduled to take place from week commencing December 10.

Understands the direction, goals and business of the Environment Agency, enhancing and protecting, at all times, the Environment Agency’s work and interests.

Addresses the needs of internal and external customers, provides rapid and effective responses.

Identifies and seizes the opportunity to create, introduce and implement new or improved methods, processes and without, compromising quality or accuracy.