Jobs Environment Agency – Environment Assistant in Cambridge, UK

Overview

Position Title:Environment Assistant

Company:Environment Agency

Location:Cambridge, UK

Job Description:

We are seeking an enthusiastic and self motivated person to join and undertake administrative duties for our busy Installation Teams covering East Anglia. The role will include, but not be limited to, customer liaison, data management, record keeping, organising office space for meetings, booking hotel and train travel for colleagues and ordering and helping to manage office and field equipment. This role is vital in ensuring our teams are able to carry out their regulatory duties. This role will be office based.This post will provide administrative duties for teams based in our Essex & Suffolk and Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire teams.

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Responsibilities:

• You’ll provide advice and assurance over the management of our flood risk assets, including for our statutory reservoirs.
• You’ll use your experience of problem solving to support assessment of the risk, urgency, and solutions to bring any below condition assets back to the required standard.
• You’ll support our teams with internal/external partnerships, promoting sustainable solutions that improve flood risk and the environment, and help achieve our ambition to become Net Zero Carbon by 2030.
• You will reinforce our engineering skills and resilience through mentoring and development of staff to achieve professional membership.
• Through our national network of Catchment Engineers, you’ll contribute to national strategy and support continuous improvement, sharing learning and experience and providing peer support.
• You’ll be a valuable part of our Operations Leadership Team, passionate about our people, celebrating diversity and helping create an inclusive environment where our people can be the best they can be.

Requirements:

• Ideally you will have proven administrative experience, be highly organised and able to deal with confidential, high profile, and sensitive issues.
• We will need you to provide information and advice accurately, efficiently and in a timely manner.
•  We are looking for excellent communication skills, an ability to work to deadlines and be flexible and resourceful with the ability to handle shifting priorities.
• It is essential that you are able to work as part of a team while also having the ability to work on your own, dealing confidently with last minute changes.
• We are looking for a candidate with strong IT skills and a working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel and Office 365.