Project Senior User - 28873

In the face of the climate and nature emergency, our role is to help make people and communities resilient to a future with more frequent and more extreme flooding.

We are one of the largest flood defence projects in the country, looking to invest over a hundred million pounds to better protect more than 10,000 homes, businesses, and significant infrastructure from flooding, erosion and the climate emergency.

We are looking for a project advisor to work with our senior project leads in; driving the project forward and working with our stakeholders and partners to help keep them informed and unlock our wider aspirations.
You’ll be heavily involved in all aspects of project delivery, being accountable for many of your own pieces of work, reviewing and approving key project deliverables and supporting our senior project leads in some of the more detailed work packages.

The project team is located across our Pevensey and Worthing offices, with some travel (once or twice a week on average) to each office, with the occasional evening meeting. All travel to places away from your main office is covered by our expense policy and we offer a great flexible working scheme.

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. As an organisation we strive to reflect the communities we serve and continue to develop diversity throughout our workforce. We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, sexual orientation or religion.

We support flexible working hours and practices. We offer an extensive range of employee benefits and encourage you to keep developing your skills and professional knowledge throughout your career.

You’ll be part of a wider team made up of project managers, engineers as well as environmental and engagement experts. Our part focuses on engagement, ensuring the programme is on track and that we deliver a legacy to be proud of.
We’re passionate about being a high performing team but also make sure our work life balance is right. You’ll be given a level of flexible working that’s not common in most workplaces.

We’re seeking a person who can demonstrate experience in:

• delivering projects of any size which doesn’t have to have been in the natural environment
• a good grasp of asset management principles and the ability to identify new and innovative opportunities
• building and collaborating on work with a wide range of stakeholders and teams
• influencing others to make considered decisions
• the ability to facilitate events and comfortably present information to others
• the ability to listen, reflect and question the situation to understand the facts and find common ground and a way forward

You must hold a full driving licence or be able to demonstrate how you could perform this role fully without one.

Responding to incidents is also 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 support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

If you'd like more information please get in touch with nick.gray@environment-agency.gov.uk

Interviews will be held face to face in the Eastbourne area in late May.

Please tell us when you have had to make a challenging decision and how you achieved a constructive outcome.


You can use our capability dictionary to understand the indicators for the competences you are being asked to demonstrate in this question, this can be found on page 10 of the Candidate Pack that is attached to the job advert.

Please note we do not assess CVs. Your answer to this question will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. Using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action and Result) can help when formulating your answers.

Please describe a situation when you have successfully influenced someone to deliver a better result.


You can use our capability dictionary to understand the indicators for the competences you are being asked to demonstrate in this question, this can be found on page 10 of the Candidate Pack that is attached to the job advert.

Please note we do not assess CVs. Your answer to this question will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. Using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action and Result) can help when formulating your answers.

Please tell us about a project you’ve been part of which has delivered an operational change or improvement to an asset.


You can use our capability dictionary to understand the indicators for the competences you are being asked to demonstrate in this question, this can be found on page 10 of the Candidate Pack that is attached to the job advert.

Please note we do not assess CVs. Your answer to this question will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. Using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action and Result) can help when formulating your answers.

Full UK Driving License