Strategy Senior Officer - 24280
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National
All
All
Staff Grade 6
Permanent
Full Time
Business Management & Improvement
£46,374
Strategy - Senior Officer role entails strong strategic thinking combined with excellent business analytics and insight. Within the generic role profile description it draws upon elements of the Senior Specialist and Senior Business Partner roles.
The successful candidate will work to align environmental and business function strategies to enable us to tackle the challenges we face as effectively as possible. We seek to increase staff awareness and engagement with our vision, leveraging the creativity and innovation of our people. In connecting our culture and strategy we aim to raise motivation levels and to re-enforce and build upon the collective appetite to work with others to deliver environmental outcomes.
The team works closely with a range of technology platforms and applications to brigade our thematic environmental strategies and our functional business / enabling strategies. Existing knowledge / experience of working with IT applications and platforms and an interest in how it can be applied to engender insight and coordination across these strategies will be key to developing and innovating products and evolving services to support strategy development, evaluation and delivery.
The successful candidate will work to align environmental and business function strategies to enable us to tackle the challenges we face as effectively as possible. We seek to increase staff awareness and engagement with our vision, leveraging the creativity and innovation of our people. In connecting our culture and strategy we aim to raise motivation levels and to re-enforce and build upon the collective appetite to work with others to deliver environmental outcomes.
The team works closely with a range of technology platforms and applications to brigade our thematic environmental strategies and our functional business / enabling strategies. Existing knowledge / experience of working with IT applications and platforms and an interest in how it can be applied to engender insight and coordination across these strategies will be key to developing and innovating products and evolving services to support strategy development, evaluation and delivery.
The Strategy Hub team in the Chief Operating Officer's Directorate provides a critical new function for the business. This involves collating convening and coordinating strategic thinking across the business, providing value add products and services that provide insights on internal synergies and external injects on our corporate strategy. We also monitor how strategy coverts to delivery. A small team, it relies on strong networking and influencing skills working with others across the business and externally.
You will be a curious and agile thinker having worked in / contributed to strategic planning. You will have good communications, engagement and empathy skills, and an effective networker helping you to span organisational boundaries and silos. You will have strong business / data analytical skills and work comfortably with technology, An ability to use and apply applications and programmes will be a distinct advantage. You will have a passion for the delivery of our key ambitions and focus on working with others.
Drew Musselbrook
drew.musselbrook@environment-agency.gov.uk
Mobile 07717 631925
You can view the Environment Agency's corporate strategy here
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-ea2025-creating-a-better-place
drew.musselbrook@environment-agency.gov.uk
Mobile 07717 631925
You can view the Environment Agency's corporate strategy here
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-ea2025-creating-a-better-place
05/10/2022, 23:55 hours
Basic Check
Seeing the big picture
The ability to comprehend and consider critical interactions and interdependencies within a complex organisation operating in a dynamic environment subject to significant externalities. Based upon this to be able to articulate options and their merits and demerits in terms of the pursuit of strategic vision.
Applies Analytical Knowledge and Experience
The ability to use data and business analytical skills, including working with systems and technology with a view to gaining insight and securing evidence to inform decisions and priorities.
Focuses on Efficiency, Innovation and Quality
Given constraints on resources, the ability to evaluate alternative work programmes, determine the right thing to do in terms of best value for money / impact and within that seek opportunities to innovate, drive efficiencies and improve quality.
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
This Vacancy is closed to applications.