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- Region- South West
- City/Town- Bodmin, Exeter
- Building/Site- Sir John Moore House, Manley House
- Grade- Staff Grade 5
- Post Type- Fixed Term
- Working Pattern- Full Time
- Role Type- Business Management & Improvement, Operational Delivery, Programme and Project Management, Risk Management, Strategy, Project Delivery
- Salary Minimum- £37,462 Pro-rata
- Job description- Your ability to build and sustain effective relationships - in other words, engage is as valuable to our organisation as your other technical capabilities. We need you to have both sets of capabilities to deliver EA2025 and contribute to the 25 Year Environment Plan.
You’ll play an important part in planning and delivering engagement within communities across Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly. You’ll empower them to understand current and future flood risk and community resilience actions they can take to stay safe and minimise flood impacts, such as signing up to our free Flood Warning Service.
Our team can’t do this on our own. You'll influence internal and external stakeholders and work in partnership to achieve our shared goals.
Internally, you’ll lead on the coordination of FCERM engagement across Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly, ensuring our team’s engagement activities align with our department’s capital programme and strategies. You’ll lead our Area FCERM Engagement Group and build strong relationships with all Area engagement staff to make this a success. And you’ll play an active role in the national Flood Resilience Engagement Advisors, Working with Others and Facilitation networks.
You’ll practice coaching to lead and support others in our team to plan, carry out and evaluate effective flood resilience engagement.
Accountabilities
Provide advice, guidance and support to internal teams and external partners to influence compliance with policy / legislation / best practice ways of working. This may involve producing technical or commercial documentation.
Provide a link for stakeholders and partners to our organisation and the services we provide.
Lead or contribute to projects, usually to bring about effective change or improve partnering and / or stakeholder engagement activities.
Develop strong relationships with stakeholders and customers, internally and externally, to maintain robust partnerships and influence environmental outcomes.
- The team- The Flood Resilience team is based across the Bodmin and Exeter offices, covering the whole of Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly. We manage and maintain the Flood Warning System, which gives the public and emergency services time to prepare for flooding. We also recruit and train duty officers to respond to flooding. As well as this, we work with communities to encourage them to take action to prepare for flooding.
- Experience/skills required- Lead on the coordination of FCRM engagement within your area, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver a place-based approach
Prioritise, plan, evaluate and report on engagement across FCERM
Build strong working relationships with all area engagement staff and delivery partners
Involvement in key internal networks
Coach and support others in your team to plan, carry out and evaluate effective flood resilience engagement
Coordinate recruiting, training, and supporting community flood volunteers
Incident response and recovery engagement
- Contact and additional information-
The successful applicant will need to travel across Devon and Cornwall, so a driving licence is essential.

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