Coastal Project Support & Engagement Officer - 22531

The Anglian Coastal Monitoring Programme (ACMP) are seeking a Project and Engagement Officer to join our small team.
The primary objective of ACMP is to collect coastal monitoring data to serve the needs of our partners and customers who have coastal management responsibilities, providing the evidence for flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) decisions between the Humber and Thames Estuaries.
This is an interactive role, providing the interface between the ACMP and our partners, stakeholders, and wider data users.
You will play a key part in expediting the delivery of our project objectives. Reporting to the ACMP Team Leader and working closely with the data and scientific leads, you will fulfil a multi-purpose role which will suit someone with a keen interest in flood and coastal erosion risk management.
You will:
Help coordinate our ongoing monitoring activities,
Help manage the programme’s survey contracts,
Respond to customer data requests
Input to technical reports
Raise the profile of the ACM programme online to promote our work and share our deliverables for maximum impact
Lead on engagement with ACMP internal and external partners
Complete data analysis tasks using topographic, Lidar and hydrographic data to outline & highlight any evidence of coastal change

The National Monitoring Survey team works with National & Area teams to co-deliver all the monitoring requirements of the Environment Agency and the wider environmental community.

The team provide a range of specialist services, to enable effective evidence to be used across the business. This includes the collection and analysis of Lidar, Aerial Photography & Satellite data. We focus on delivering the highest quality data, providing a fully integrated approach to the delivery of geo-information.

You will be a confident communicator, with excellent customer engagement skills. Your enthusiasm, ambition and good organisational skills will help you to you work to deadlines and to achieve defined deadlines and targets.
Essential:
Educated to degree level or have equivalent experience in Geography, Environmental Science, GIS, or Remote Sensing.
Broad experience of working with stakeholders, partners and or members of the public.
Knowledge of technical solutions to share & present data and collaborative online working platforms.
Excellent organisational skills and proven project management experience to deliver work by planning, tracking, gathering and maintaining data/information
Ability to work on your own initiative and within a small team.
Desirable:

Knowledge of Environment Agency, FCERM & local authority strategic coastal management planning and policies.
Coastal monitoring knowledge that enables you to work with and present ACMP data and analysis outputs
Good GIS skills, ideally with ArcGIS although training can be provided.

The National Monitoring Survey team is a national team, located at various sites around the country with the main office based in Bath. It is anticipated that you will be working in a hybrid manner, combining working remotely at home with some office based work but this will be discussed in more detail at interview.

For any questions relating to this role, please contact Becky Stanley by email: becky.stanley@environment-agency.gov.uk. Interviews will be via Teams.

Please note that your answers in the application and at interview will be assessed using the STAR technique (situation, task, action, result) for each of the role capabilities.

At the Environment Agency we are often having to balance competing priorities. When have you had to prioritise your workload based on competing priorities and how did you decide what was the most important task?

Good data and evidence is essential in making the right decisions about how and where we use our funding. Tell us about a time when the use of good data has helped you, or a team you worked in, make a decision.

We are often required to make decisions with incomplete or conflicting information. What examples do you have where you have had to do the same? Who did you collaborate with? How did you decide what your options were? How did you arrive at your decision? What was the outcome?

Our stakeholder liaison is an important element in delivering effective project outcomes. When have you identified your stakeholders and how did you do this?