Flood Resilience Technical Adviser

4 days ago


Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

Flooding represents a crucial challenge both now and into the future as the impacts of climate change become apparent. In Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) you will be helping to protect people and property from flooding.
- As a Flood Resilience Technical Advisor you'll be a passionate and dynamic individual. You will work alongside our current advisor sharing responsibilities for overseeing the flood warning and flood incident management services in Hertfordshire and North London.
- You will also:
- Work with the team to maintain, lead, plan and improve the flood warning service and co-ordinate the local delivery of national projects
- Act as the Flood Resilience client for the Modelling & Forecasting and Hydrometry & Telemetry teams.
- Influence how we manager our telemetry network, develop our incident plans and procedures.
- Support the Team Leader in setting and embedding the long-term strategic direction for Flood Resilience.
- Work in partnerships with internal teams and ensure Flood Resilience is integrated into FCRM projects.
- Work with professional partners to ensure they are prepared and can respond to flooding, through supporting them with Multi Agency Flood Plans.
- Support the team by provide technical leadership, coaching, mentoring and training team members and flood warning duty officers.

The team
- The flood resilience team provide a flood warning service, plan for incidents and help co-ordinate the areas response to flood events in order to minimise impact on life and property, we also identify new warning areas.
- We raise awareness of flooding in areas through campaigns and mailshots and attend events and functions in line with this. To ensure the public are better prepared to respond to flood events.

Experience/skills required
- Ideally you will:
- Have a good understanding of flooding and the Environment Agencies Role in managing flood risk.
- Have experience of the flood warning and incident management services and an awareness the systems and teams that support them.
- Be an effective communicator with evidence of the ability to convey complex information to a range of audiences.
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate exceptional organisational skills to successfully prioritise, plan, monitor and track technical tasks.
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external customers.
- have the ability to be adaptable and deliver work within tight timescales, as our work can be reactive and unplanned after flooding incidents
- Willing to undertake specialist/or further training when necessary.
- Demonstrate clear leadership and work well under pressure and in a team environment,
- Have a positive approach to change.

Contact and additional information
- Please note that that your answers to the capability questions will be used to determine interview selection.- You will be based from our Welwyn Garden City office. There will be an expectation of frequent travel to the office as part of any future hybrid-working patterns.



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