Strategic Water Resource Option Lead

Salary

**up to £62,000 (depending on experience)**
- Location

**Pity Me, Durham, County Durham**

**About the role**

**Strategic Water Resource Option Lead**

**Working hours**:Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements considered)

**Permanent**

**Salary**:up to £62,000 depending on experience

**Location**:Hybrid working with office locations in Pity Me, Durham

**About the role**

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Water Service Planning team as our Strategic Water Resource Option Lead. This is a new role that involves delivering our commitments made to Ofwat, placing a focus on effective long term water supply planning. You will work collaboratively with Yorkshire Water and United Utilities in delivering the Kielder Strategic Resource Option. This initially includes investigating the feasibility of exports of raw water to neighboring water companies and beyond.

You’ll also take responsibility for the development and coordination of Water Resources North’s (WReN) sector groups in energy and agriculture with the aim to enhance collaboration with WReN’s regional planning and governance. This will ensure all stakeholders are integrated into the planning processes to facilitate water resource management.

Active engagement with senior leaders will be the foundation of this role as you’ll build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including other Strategic Water Resource Leads and regional sector leads.

You’ll collaborate with project delivery teams to ensure we meet regulatory and internal targets. This means you’ll form strong relationships with regulators like Ofwat and the Environment agency.

You’ll serve as the Non-PWS sector lead, working to establish clear vision and objectives.

**About you**

If you are a proactive, results orientated leader we want to hear from you.

You’ll use your experience delivering capital investment projects and knowledge of operating in a regulated environment to ensure we meet our regulatory requirements.

We’re seeking budget management experience as you’ll be responsible for setting and achieving financial goals. Therefore, you’ll possess effective communication and relationship management abilities to build successful relationships.

Interviews will take place online on Monday 24 March
- Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work._
- Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity._- Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment_

**About us**

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

**NWG at a glance**:
**Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.**
- We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers._
- We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business._

**Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services.**To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

**Our benefits**

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

- Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
- Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
- Free access to local attractions.
- A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
- Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
- Support with sustainable travel - through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
- Financial wellbeing support - access