Overview

Position Title:Flood and Coastal Risk Management Program

Company:Environment Agency

Location:York, UK

Job Description:

The successful candidate will thrive as part of an experienced team, managing risks and issues and forging collaborative relationships with peers, other Risk Management Authorities, suppliers, and delivery partners. You’ll be responsible for providing regular, accurate and timely updates on progress, including to a monthly Portfolio Delivery Board, the National Programme Management Office and each quarter to the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee. You’ll become a key member of the Flood and Coastal Risk Management, helping to shape the direction of the team and the wider department. You may take on line management responsibilities too.

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:

  • Is a strong communicator with excellent networking skills.
  • Is able to deliver results through others; especially important when working across teams and the organisation.
  • Has experience working locally and nationally
  • Planning and prioritising work to achieve corporate objective.
  • Can solve problems to prioritise and manage complex programmes with competing outcomes.
  • Has experience of leading and motivating others
  • Has experience in influencing and developing organisational approaches
  • Can identify clear narratives from data and information
  • Thinks strategically to influence required outcomes.
  • Has proven experience in complex programme management
  • Experience of influencing external customers and internal colleagues in a large organisation
  • Is well organised and able to work effectively under pressure with competing deadlines.

About Environment Agency

We are the Environment Agency. We are the biggest and most wide-ranging environmental regulator in Europe. We work with businesses and communities to protect and improve the environment, for people and wildlife. And the need for our work is becoming ever more important.