Water Security and Emergency Senior Policy Advisors

2 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 341402**Salary**:

- £39,439 - £47,039- National: £39,439 - £43,569 - London: £42,577 - £47,039.
- For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DEFRA - Environment - Water & Flood Management**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
- Policy
- Risk Management**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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- Bristol, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**_ Are you looking for new challenge in a high-profile emergency response or policy environment?_**

**_ Have you ever wondered who makes sure that water keeps coming out of your taps?_**

A resilient supply of fresh drinking water is essential for every citizen, business and for the environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join Defra’s CBRN, Water and Floods Emergency Division to help make the water system in England more resilient to a growing and diverse range of threats and hazards. These range from extreme weather to supply chain crises through to terrorism and cyber-attacks.

The roles are based in Defra, which is the Lead Government Department for the Water Sector in England, including responsibilities for water as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) sector.

We have 2 SEO roles available within the team. One will lead on security and CNI policy for the sector. The other will lead work to help enhance short-term resilience of drinking water supply and ensure effective response to unanticipated disruptions.

You will contribute to the emergency response to serious water supply emergencies which require national level interventions. This involves holding the pen on emergencies updates on a frequent basis.

Our important mission involves working closely with resilience teams across government in departments like the COBR Unit and the National Cyber Security Centre, Resilience and Emergency teams in the water sector, the Drinking Water Inspectorate and Government Ministers.

**Job description**:
**Role 1: Water security and CNI policy lead**

The water sector is one of 13 critical national infrastructure (CNI) sectors in the UK, the effective functioning of which are necessary for the country to function and upon which daily life depends.

Privately owned water companies are responsible for the day to day running of their assets, but given their importance to the UK the Government needs to ensure risks are identified and adequately managed. These risks range from natural hazards such as floods and climate change, malicious threats such as physical and cyber attacks, and cascading impacts such as the loss of electricity supply having knock-on implications for the production of drinking water.

The key duties of your role will include:

- Working with other Government departments to understand and map interdependencies between water sector CNI assets and CNI in other sectors. These are things the water sector is dependent on (for example energy supply and water treatment chemicals) and things that are dependent on water.
- Working with water companies to share details of any interdependencies that are identified by other sectors such that their requirements are understood in the event of normal distribution failing (eg. due to a burst water main or problem at a water treatment works).
- A number of policy decisions will need to be taken as the above objectives are progressed. You will lead on managing and resolving these issues, and this will be the most challenging but also the most interesting part of the role. Which interdependencies are most important? What do we expect water companies to deliver and do we need to update the regulatory framework to incentivise or enable this? What timescales are achievable for upgrading resilience? How should any resilience and/or security upgrades be funded? How do we manage conflicting expectations from Ministers, industry or regulators for any of the above? How do we make decisions if information is incomplete?
- You will also lead on ensuring Defra’s legislation and security guidance to water companies remains fit for purpose. This sets the framework under which water companies keep their CNI secure, and under which our security regulator holds companies to account if they don’t.

The decisions you make will have real world implications for water company investments. You will need to work with both water companies and Ofwat, the economic regulator, to ensure the commercial and financial implications of decisions are understood, and that adequate processes and timelines are agreed for resulting changes.

**Role 2: Resilience and response lead**

The main duties of this role include:

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