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28/02/2026, 23:55 hours
PC06 Partnerships & Customers, Grade 6
The Environment Agency is fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect 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.
Our Environment & Business (E&B) External Affairs Team is looking for motivated and ambitious Senior External Affairs Advisors to develop and deliver our engagement strategies for a range of priorities. This involves working across departments, aligning internal and external stakeholder agendas, building strong relationships and working on high-profile issues.
We are advertising 5 x External Affairs Senior Advisor roles:
The roles will be assigned specific topics to lead on as part of the engagement strategy team. These roles are busy and fast-moving roles. You’ll need to be a self-starter with the ability to balance strategic issues with reactive, which will often involve reprioritising and delivering work quickly under pressure.
Main responsibilities:
You’ll be an experienced communications and engagement specialist, with great judgement and collaboration skills. You will love planning and advising, building relationships, and delivering work through other people.
See the Additional Information Pack attached for more information
We are a dispersed team and work with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders across the country. We promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture where everyone feels valued.
We advise and influence E&B on building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and organisations who are critical to our work. Strengthening our voice and influence means our work is better known, trusted, and has greater impact.
We need people who can plan engagement for others, from the Chief Executive to our technical specialists; who have a strategic mind to look beyond the tactics; and can develop trusted relationships so that expertise is listened to and acted upon.
Please demonstrate your experience and understanding of:
You’ll have an incident management objective in your development plan, so we’ll help you find an incident role to suit you. 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. Travel and overnight stays will be required at locations across the country.
Join our Candidate Call on 12th February at 12pm to find out more details about the roles, teams and assessment.
Read the Candidate Pack and Additional Information Pack for more information. Any queries contact eandbpeople@environment-agency.gov.uk.#LI - DNI
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This Vacancy is closed to applications.