Integrated Environment Planning Specialist – Water Quality

Integrated Environment Planning Specialist – Water Quality - 30558

Number of jobs available 1

Region South East

City/Town West Malling

Building/Site DEFRA GRP EA ORCHARD HOUSE, ME19 5SH

Grade Staff Grade 5

Post Type Permanent

Role Type Environment & Sustainability, Operational Delivery

The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. 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. Everyone starting in a new role will be welcomed into the team and given all the training and support needed.

As part of your comprehensive induction, you will be provided with all the equipment required for your role.

If you’re passionate about our water environment and want to make a difference to the quality of our rivers in Kent, South London and East Sussex (KSLES), then this might be the perfect role for you.

We’re looking for an individual with excellent planning, communication and data handling skills to help identify, plan and influence the delivery of water quality improvement actions.

The successful candidate will work on a variety of aspects of water quality planning to understand the risks, find solutions and work with those who can effect change. They will review and advise stakeholders plans, providing technical advice to ensure they comply with environmental regulations.

They will also be required to understand, analyse and translate a variety of information into evidence that can be used to inform and influence decisions by technical and non-technical audiences.

The Integrated Environment Planning team is a friendly, supportive and knowledgeable team divided into two main work streams;
Water Quality and Catchment Planning. We work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to ensure our data is accurate and to bring together a wide range of evidence to support the identification of environmental improvement opportunities across the area.

Knowledge and experience of the following would be advantageous:

• Working with external partners, influencing decisions and demonstrating leadership.
• Analysing large data sets to make evidence led decisions (experience of statistical packages is desirable).
• Ability to communicate technical data to a range of audiences.
• Water company price review and asset management plans.
• Water quality legislation, policy, strategy and permitting.
• Understanding of water quality modelling techniques.
• Awareness of how water quality is impacted by wider environmental pressures.

Essential: A degree in a relevant environmental discipline or equivalent experience.

Desirable:
Membership of, or working towards a membership of, a relevant professional institute (e.g. CIWEM)

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role making yourself available to respond to incidents/provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment, full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

Role is based at Orchard House, West Malling Kent. Interviews will be in person on 23, 24 & 25 April 2025.

For further details please contact Laura Jones Integrated Environment Planning Team Leader via email

We are an office-based team with an expectation that 50% of your time will be spent in the office along with additional site visits/other face to face meetings as required.

Description Please note we do not assess CVs. It is your answers given to the questions below that will be used for interview…