Strategic Solutions Senior Adviser

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

- 257470**Salary**:

- £33,736**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Senior Adviser**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

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Location
- East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This position is based nationally**Job description**:
The team

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

- Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
- Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
- Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
- Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
- Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing

We are the Government’s advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

See more about the work of Natural England at:
Wherever possible we will accommodate requests for both full-time and part-time hours and other flexible working patterns to help employees achieve a good work/life balance and maintain their health and wellbeing.

From induction to ongoing learning and development, everyone in Natural England is supported to develop their skills and capabilities. Where appropriate there will be offers of training under our apprenticeship schemes.

Job description

We are looking for an individual to support policy and joined up delivery processes for solutions to high-risk planning casework and maximise the opportunities for nature recovery whilst enabling sustainable development.

This will require a focus on engagement, in enabling a solutions-focused approach to existing projects on nutrient neutrality and supporting the coordination and development of approaches to other environmental impacts such as air, water quality and recreational disturbance considering how the team can drive:

- More strategic and effective approaches to avoidance of impacts, mitigation of impacts and delivery of environmental benefits.
- Technical input to the required monitoring feeding into better design and mitigation of future projects.
- Early consideration of compensation options that can be deployed across projects, at speed.

To deliver more upfront and enable a greater focus on delivering large-scale strategic environmental benefits, we are seeking dynamic creative thinkers with a passion for partnership working and engagement.

Playing your part in the teams management of external relationships will be critical. You will feed into cross-government policy making and programme-level stakeholder engagement planning. This will include liaison with developers and a range of government departments to scope and develop solutions and test risk appetite.

Internal networks are as important; you will work closely with NE’s Strategy & Government Advice, National Operations and Area Team colleagues, as well as specialists and legal teams, and collegiately with Sustainable Development Programme Team.

The post is hosted by the Strategic Solutions Team which sits in the Sustainable Development part of the national Strategy and Government Advice Team. The purpose of the Strategy & Government Advice Team is to support the achievement of Natural England’s aims by providing advice, support and delivering work for the programmes, especially including:

- Advising Government on its environmental policy development relevant to our remit;
- Developing and delivering new programmes and pilots for Government to support major strategies such as the 25 Year Plan and Environment Act; and
- Developing internal standards and guidance on novel issues.

This exciting role sits within a group of Strategic Solutions-focussed colleagues in the Planning Team.
- Natural England is adopting hybrid working - which means that our staff will work from a flexible range of locations, encompassing home, offices (ours and our partners) and relevant sites. By default, all n