Partnership and Strategic Overview Officer

The Environment Agency protect and improve the environment. Acting to reduce the impacts of a changing climate on people and wildlife is at the heart of everything we do. We work with government, local councils, businesses, civil society groups and communities to make our environment a better place for people and wildlife. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity in all we do, and to valuing the diversity of our workforce, customers and communities. We’re investing £5.2billion between now and 2027 that will reduce flood risk to 336,000 properties across the UK. It’s an exciting time and we need your help to ensure we’re prepared for any future flooding and coastal change.The delivery of our Capital programme is our key objective, your work will play a key part in its success. This could be in project and programme, representing the business needs during inceptions and development, negotiating funding and other outcomes with our partners, giving advice on planning and permits that we issue, development and delivery of our overview, Strategic plans and actions. Development of our data and evidence is key and the analysis of GIS, models and data sets are an important part of the team’s activities. Being resilient to climate change and limiting the impacts of future flooding to people, infrastructure and environment is our challenge in the coming years. As an Officer in the Partnerships and Strategic Overview Team you will play a key part in the delivery of our objectives. You will be a confident communicator, with excellent customer service skills, working with internal, external partners and members of the public. Your enthusiasm, ambition and good organisational skills will help you to achieve defined deadlines and targets. You are happy to work on your own initiative or as part of a wider team.An understanding or interest in flood and coastal risk management is beneficial, along with the following:• Project development• Rivers and coast engineering• Planning and permitting activities• Influencing and negotiation• Evidence based modelling• GIS and data management