Water Resources Drought Specialist

5 months ago

Penrith, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

Number of jobs available- 1
- Region- North West
- City/Town- Penrith, Preston
- Building/Site- Lutra House, Ghyll Mount
- Grade- Staff Grade 5
- Post Type- Permanent
- Working Pattern- Full Time, Part Time/Job Share, Compressed Hours
- Role Type- Operational Delivery
- Salary Minimum- £37,462
- Job description- It’s a fantastic time to work for the Environment Agency as we the tackle the climate and nature emergency. As part of the Cumbria and Lancashire Water Resource Integrated planning team, and working across the Northern Hub area, you will be at the heart of ensuring the area is resilient and ready to respond to drought to safeguard the environment and water supplies.
You will build area drought resilience, working with your local drought coordinator and across multiple areas, to plan and deliver drought response improvements, working across the hub to ensure that each area in their hub has a current drought plan, a resilient level of drought capability and incident capacity. As part of the national drought communities of practice (water supply, agriculture, regulation), you will help deliver lessons learnt from recent drought, develop guidance (internal and external), develop and deliver training and work with external partners in testing and training.
In addition, you will:

- Shape approaches to drought planning - providing advice and technical support to area, pan-area and national teams.
- Providing support to key incident roles helping us meet the demands of improving our incident preparedness.
- Support area and national operations input during drought, being agile to meet the business need.
- Act as a drought specialist to deliver drought management, planning, preparedness, and response.
- Guide and advise others on drought issues, ensuring decisions are made on sound technical grounds
- Maintain links with national drought groups / staff on behalf of area - raising issues and feeding back to Area Drought Leads. This includes the national drought practitioners’ group.
- Identify external engagement opportunities across the area and hub
- Participate and lead projects to deliver learning from recent drought and planning for drought.
- The team- You will sit within the Cumbria & Lancashire Water Resources (WR) Integrated Environment Planning team, we are a new team so it's an exciting time for you to join us. The team of technical specialists and officers plan and deliver a wide variety of WR activity. You will add vital leadership capacity to the team, help provide drought resilience planning alongside providing regulation support and building a knowledge base on drought planning activity and response.
- Experience/skills required- Your excellent interpersonal and project management skills will be complimented by your ability to achieve results, solve problems, and communicate technical issues in a clear and concise manner to a range of audiences, supported by your drought knowledge.
Through your experience you will be able to demonstrate the following:

- Good interpersonal skills, communication, and presentation skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work on your own initiative or as part of a dispersed team.
- Excellent communication skills and experience of building relationships.
- Ability to work across Area teams, pan-area, OCS and E&B for a joined up and nationally consistent approach.
- Good judgement, problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Good planning & organisational skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and deliver to tight timescales.
- Good understanding of water resources management for the environment, and keen to lead our role to ensure a water resilient future.
- Contact and additional information- 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.

Interviews will be remote on MS Teams.

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