Senior Hydrologist

The role of Senior Hydrologist will be wide ranging; we are looking for enthusiastic, inspirational and experienced applicants. You will provide collaborative, collective and strategic leadership - by this we mean you will have a leading influence on work with non-hydrologists, hydrologists and management. You will use the breadth of your hydrology skills and knowledge alongside your networks, to build capability, innovation and partnership working. You will be an advocate for hydrology and a solidly technical go-to person, with focus on building resilience.- Working closely with the team leader and hydrology community to develop technical resilience and implement new ways of working.
- Building strong and productive relationships with customers and partners within the organisation as well as externally.
- Providing direction, specialised expertise and support on delivering reputational, political or technically complex activities. Ensuring decisions are made on sound technical and environmental grounds.
- Delivering through others the Area hydrology and project work
- Undertaking analysis and determination of complex hydrological problems
- Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

The team
- The Area Hydrology team is responsible for working on some of the most challenging environmental issues within water resources and providing workable solutions. We provide technical expertise and advice on a range of water resource management projects including Water Framework Directive, Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies, Restoring Sustainable Abstraction programme and determining water resources permits.

Experience/skills required
- Highly experienced and technically competent professional with extensive understanding of hydrology and water resources.
- Experience of leading people. This may have been achieved through line management, project management or technical leadership roles.
- You will be able to communicate across a wide network of audiences, having the skills to turn technical detail into compelling argument for the respective audience.
- Ability to deliver results through others by managing talent, coaching, and mentoring
- Be a champion for innovation and best practice to add value and to achieve more for the environment
- Ability to translate organisational ambition into plans and programmes for delivery in an operational environment.
- Technical resilience planning both locally and nationally
- High level technical support for Incident Management
- You will be educated to at least degree standard (or equivalent), in a relevant scientific discipline. Chartered status is desirable.

Contact and additional information
- You will be based in an office within North East Area. We also have flexibility to work from home. There will be business need to regularly work from the office for meetings, training and working with the team. Occasional further travel to meetings, training and site visits will also be required.
- The Environment Agency has an important incident management role and you will be encouraged to play your part in a way that fits around your work/life balance.