Thames Estuary 2100 Portfolio Management Advisor - 28852

Do you want to help London and the Thames Estuary adapt to climate change? In this role, you’ll work with teams across the Environment Agency and partners to deliver the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan and help adapt the estuary to rising sea levels.

You’ll use a portfolio management approach to oversee all workstreams, programmes and projects in the Thames Estuary 2100 portfolio. You will be responsible for our portfolio management tools and monitoring progress against the Plan’s outcomes, benefits and corporate metrics, to ensure we have the evidence needed to monitor delivery and make key decisions to drive our work.

You will need to work closely and proactively with Thames Estuary 2100 Managers, the wider team, senior governance boards, area teams and partners, using excellent communication skills to gain relevant information and translate it for your audience. You will spot trends and areas for improvement, and use your influencing skills to guide the direction our projects and workstreams take. You will also work closely with senior leaders to help shape governance meetings and senior stakeholder engagement to drive key decisions.

You will be responsible for data analysis, financial reporting and resource management. Working closely with project managers, you will track project progress and manage risks and opportunities across the portfolio. You’ll develop collaborative and agile approaches to oversee delivery of the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan.

We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We embrace diversity for the benefit of our staff, communities and environment. Everyone starting in a new role will given all the training and support needed. Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do.

You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity.

You will be part of our dedicated Thames Estuary 2100 team, made of dynamic and passionate experts in climate adaptation, planning, engagement, flood risk, asset management and programme management. We work closely with the wider London Area to shape the future of the capital, and with area teams to ensure Thames Estuary 2100 is embedded within the wider landscape of our work with stakeholders.

To succeed in this role, you will:

Be able to maintain an oversight of the strategy whilst paying attention to detail

Have experience of budget, risk and opportunity management

Be comfortable with using Excel and Microsoft Project to handle, manipulate & analyse data & information

Be adept at communicating complex information in a simple way, verbally and visually, adapting your style to different audiences

Have experience of proactively identifying areas for improvement and be motivated by finding and implementing solutions

Be confident engaging with senior internal stakeholders as well as working collaboratively with a wide team

Be able to stay organised and calm when things are busy and be adaptable to changing priorities

Be curious, try new things, think creatively and convince others to join you

Have experience working across different functions, with senior stakeholders and complex data

The team is based in our central London office (2 Marsham Street), and you will be expected to work here the majority of the time. Some travel around London and to other area offices will be expected to build and maintain relationships with teams.

The Inner London Weighting Allowance will be included in our offer.

We champion diversity and inclusivity at every opportunity. We encourage people interested in both full time and flexible working (such as job share) and people from a range of backgrounds to apply.

For more information or an informal discussion about the role contact Laura Littleton, Thames Estuary 2100 Manager at laura.littleton@environment-agency.gov.uk or 07825377920.

In this role, you will need to work across projects and teams to collect and manage data and shape it into useful information to monitor our progress, support decision making, track spend and resource and manage our risks and opportunities. Tell us about a time where you have been responsible for gathering data and information from others to enable a critical decision. Be sure to explain what your approaches were to understand the data and tailor your communication for the decision makers.

In this role you will work closely with different teams and internal stakeholders, regularly attending governance boards to present information clearly and accurately. Tell us about a time when you have conveyed complex information to a group of senior leaders or stakeholders, using different communication methods. How did you ensure that your message landed and was understood?

In this role, you will need to be coordinating activities and collecting information from multiple projects and teams that you do not manage. Describe an occasion when you have brought people together to deliver something that you were particularly proud of. Make sure to explain what processes, tools, relationships, approaches, etc. you used to do this.

In this role, you will have to be comfortable in trying new ways of working and challenging how it’s been done historically to optimise our outcomes. Describe a time when you have used a continuous improvement approach to deliver more efficiently or improve quality. Include the outcome of your work and what feedback you received.