Advisor, IT​/Tech, IT Consultant

Position: Advisor - 32533

We are looking for an energetic and dynamic person to join the E&B Systems Team. This is a permanent role within our development team.

The role will give you the opportunity to experience a wide variety of work and develop widely transferable skills. We focus on the support and delivery of technical digital solutions to address business problems and support major digital transformation. We want someone to understand how digital tools can help our regulatory work and how we can build and support solutions to help our staff in their front‑line work.

We are looking for a flexible individual who manages themselves and who is comfortable working in dispersed project groups. The team focuses on regulatory services and technical solutions, supporting the work of the Environment Agency. We aspire for inclusivity to thrive in our workforce. We embrace equal opportunities and flexible work arrangements, ensuring everyone can contribute and succeed.

The Team

The team is a dispersed, flexible resource working across digital and business activity areas. We provide digital product development and configuration services, a support service to Operations staff, covering our business systems and technologies, and we contribute to cross‑cutting and high‑risk projects. We deliver innovative, integrated outcomes. We connect the business to the IT needed to deliver benefits for the environment.

We provide a critical intelligent client role in digital IT services and operational activities.

Experience & Skills Required

• Skills in digital product management or experience as an environment practitioner.
• Comfortable with tools such as Power Platform, SharePoint, DCP (Document Core Pack), Canvas Apps, Microsoft Access, and ability to configure applications.
• Skill in addressing the needs of internal and external customers.
• Good understanding of business problems, challenges faced by staff, and the ability to think innovatively to develop solutions.
• Strong technical skills and ability to convey that understanding to non‑technical clients.
• Ability to collaborate with customers, building and sustaining partner relationships.

Contact & Additional Information

We are fully committed to an inclusive workforce. Flexible working patterns, including job share, are welcome. Please highlight your preferred flexible working arrangements in your application.

We’re looking for applicants who believe that having a diverse, representative, and engaged workforce is fundamental to protect the environment and serve our communities.

Please contact Ean for additional information.

The Environment Agency offers an extensive range of employee benefits.

Location is flexible. Infrequent travel for some meetings in Bristol/Birmingham is required.

Competences Competence 1:
Achieves Results

Please describe, with examples, how you set and deliver high work standards, demonstrating the drive to meet targets. Prioritise and organise tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results.

Competence 2:
Focuses on Efficiency, Innovation and Quality

Please describe where you have identified and seized the opportunity to create, introduce and implement new or improved methods, processes and without compromising quality or accuracy.

Competence 3:
Focuses on Customers and Partners

Please describe how you build and sustain effective relationships with operational customers to understand issues and provide an effective response or steer for operational needs.

Information for Civil Service Applicants

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.

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