Flood Resilience Advisor

4 weeks ago

Beverley, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

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.
- This role is absolutely central to the team’s core work of maintaining, improving and expanding the flood warning service. The role owner is responsible for managing and delivering our flood warning improvement programme and provides technical leadership for all our flood warning work across Yorkshire.
- The role owner will lead a number of critical areas of our team’s work, including:
- Delivery of an ambitious programme of flood warning improvement work
- Working with the Team Leader and other technical advisors to prioritise and manage the Team’s workload and set the strategic direction of the team
- Maintaining key relationships to ensure effective delivery of our programme, including with national colleagues, local area teams and our professional partners
- Leading on our delivery of the National Flood Warning Expansion Project
- Being the team’s technical expert on Yorkshire’s Flood Warning Service
- Leading on ensuring telemetry and forecasting work dovetails into the wider flood warning programme
- Mentoring and coaching of team members to broaden our technical skills base and increase overall resilience
- Overseeing our work to ensure our flood incident management procedures are updated and fit for purpose

The team
- Our team plays a critical role in the Environment Agency’s long-term goal: “A nation ready to respond and adapt to flooding and coastal change”. We ensure that our staff, partners and communities are able to respond effectively before, during and after floods. We do this by managing our Flood Warning Service, supporting our partners and communities with their flood response plans, and by ensuring our flood warning duty officers are fully trained and capable.

Experience/skills required
- Good working knowledge of the flood warning service and detailed understanding of the flood warning system
- Experience delivering flood warning improvements studies, from scoping to implementing deliverables
- Strong project/programme management skills are essential; you’ll be managing a very ambitious and dynamic programme of flood warning improvement work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex information to different audiences
- You'll be a self-starter, able to work as part of a team and individually, prioritising workload to deliver results
- You'll be good at working under pressure, flexibly and at pace. You'll be able to effectively prioritise and make difficult choices about conflicting priorities
- Coaching and/or mentoring skills
- You will be expected to support our incident management response in line with your skills and experience
- You’ll be motivated by delivering outcomes and you will think innovatively to develop solutions

Contact and additional information
- We are a close knit, high achieving team and work flexibly from both home and office.-
- This is a permanent role. Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 23 January 2023
- Our recruitment process assesses capabilities - these describe the knowledge, skill and behaviour needed to be effective in a role. Your answers to the capability questions will be used to determine interview selection. If you would like to see our organisation's Capability Dictionary, please search ‘Environment Agency Capability Dictionary’ into an online search engine.

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