Waste Crime Engagement Specialist

You’ll play an important role identifying engagement opportunities that will enhance the Environment Agency’s capabilities for tackling crime in the waste sector. You’ll empower others to prevent and disrupt waste crime by helping them understand what waste crime is, how to stop it, report it, and avoid becoming a victim or unknowingly allowing waste to be handled illegally.The role has a dual focus of delivering engagement based on nationally identified waste crime priorities for the Environment Agency, whilst adapting these priorities to deliver engagement at an area level in response to local trends and emerging threats.You will influence internal and external stakeholders and work in partnership to achieve joint outcomes for waste crime. Internally, you will build an engagement strategy, co-ordinating engagement activities across the area to ensure our work is targeted, effective, innovative and efficient. Specific responsibilities will include:• Contribute to the planning and development of a national engagement plan• Local engagement planning• Keep stakeholder analysis and engagement plans up-to-date• Monitor and record engagement activity across the programme• Identify new opportunities for engagement• Support Defra Communications using key waste crime messages• Compile written case studies of completed engagement You’ll be an excellent communicator, confident in engaging with people and organisations. This will have been gained through experience in planning and delivering high quality engagement across multiple work areas in a community and/or partner engagement role, ideally with enforcement agencies and partners such as HMRC, Police Forces, etc.It would be desirable for you to be familiar with waste regulation, waste crime, or environmental issues caused by poor waste management. You'll be a quick-learner, with a strong customer-focus, and have a desire to make a difference.Leading projects and coaching others will come natural to you. You'll be organised and have excellent attention to detail, ensuring our work is delivered to a high standard. You'll be able to work as part of a team and individually and prioritise an interesting and varied workload. You will be good at working under pressure, working flexibly and at pace, and delivering outcomes.