Advisor, IT​/Tech, IT Consultant

Position: Advisor - 32533
Location: Little Newcastle

Advisor - 32533

Environment Agency

Job Description

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. It focuses on the support and delivery of technical digital solutions to address business problems and to support major digital transformation.

We want someone to understand how digital tools can help our regulatory work and how we can build and support and develop solutions to help our staff in their front‑line work.

We are looking for a flexible individual who manages themselves and is able to lead on technical development areas and solutions. The team focuses on regulatory services and technical solutions, supporting how these services support the work of the Environment Agency. They are comfortable working in dispersed project groups.

At the EA 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 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, connecting the business to the IT needed to deliver benefits for the environment. We play a critical intelligent client role in digital IT services and operational activities.

Experience

/ Skills Required

You should have skills in digital product management or be an experienced environment practitioner. You should be comfortable with tools such as Power Platform, SharePoint, DCP (Document Core Pack), Canvas Apps, Microsoft Access and have the capability of application configuration. You will be skilled in addressing the needs of internal and external customers, have a good understanding of business problems and the challenges faced by staff, and be able to think innovatively to develop solutions.

The successful person will need strong technical skills, strong partnerships with staff, an ability to convey technical understanding to non‑technical clients, and collaboration skills. Developing and sustaining partner relationships is vital.

Contact and Additional Information

We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working patterns, including job share. Please highlight any information regarding preferred flexible working arrangements on your application. Location is flexible; infrequent travel for some meetings in Bristol/Birmingham is required. Please contact Ean for additional information.

Competence 1 – Achieves Results

Please describe, with examples, how you set and deliver high work standards, demonstrating the drive to meet targets, prioritising and organising 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 techniques, 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 effective responses or steering for operational needs.

Legal Notice (Civil Service)

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.

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