Community Flood Engagement Team Leader

1 week ago

Lichfield, United Kingdom Staffordshire County Council Full time

Job Introduction
The flood risk team at Staffordshire County Council are currently recruiting to 4 permanent full-time posts and this is one of them.

Making Staffordshire more sustainable and encouraging good health and wellbeing, resilience and independence are priorities for the County Council. We are setting up a new Community Flood Engagement Team and this team will help in making these priorities reality. This team will sit within the Flood Risk Management Team. They largely carry out the powers and duties of the Lead Local Flood Authority function as described in the Flood and Water Management Act (2010) in addition to managing a large portfolio of flood alleviation schemes. The Flood Risk Management Team also provide a similar service to Black Country Authorities and comes under the wider remit of Highways and the Built County.

You will lead a project and a small team on community engagement and innovation. We have been awarded funding for the project under Defra/Environment Agency's Flood & Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme. The project is called the FAIR Project (FAIR standing for flood aware, informed, resilient) and covers the Staffordshire and Black Country Authorities' area. More detail of this project and its context can be found here:
We need an effective project manager to ensure the aims and objectives of the project are met. This includes project managing certain aspects of the project which have already been outlined, and which will be undertaken by external consultants. For example a communications system for people at risk of flooding, surface water forecasting and warning, a "one-stop shop" website for flooding, and artificial intelligence linked to trash screen.

In addition, you will manage a small team consisting of officers, flood charity staff, and active academic researchers and will report to to overlying governance structures. The role will be supported by the Flood Risk Manager.

Main Responsibilities
- Effectively manage a small team of officers, flood charity staff, and occasionally postgraduate students
- Project managing flood risk projects to ensure objectives are met. This includes overseeing work undertaken by consultants on a new communications system for flooding, a "one-stop-shop" website for flooding, surface water forecasting and warnings, and artificial intelligence linked to trash screens.
- Working with others, including other internal teams, communities, other risk management authorities, Councillors, Black Country Authorities, and project partners.
- Helping to nurture a culture of effective community engagement and innovation into the team with the aid of the Flood Risk Manager

What you need to bring to this role:

- Engineer or equivalent qualifications in a Civil Engineering, Construction or a Flood Risk Management related topic
- Post qualification experience in flood risk management/environmental profession and/or community engagement/liaison
- Effective project management
- Knowledge and understanding of the administrative, statutory and legal procedures of flood risk management including the responsibilities of risk management authorities
- Ability to manage a small team
- Experience in using ICT (e.g. GIS)
- Working knowledge of policies & design standards in relation to flood risk management
- Working knowledge of innovation and/or community engagement

About Staffordshire County Council
**We are no ordinary county council**:
**Our Values**:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

**Our benefits**:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

**Our recruitment process**:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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