Integrated Environment Planning Specialist

**Integrated Environment Planning Specialist - 32158**:
**Integrated Environment Planning Specialist - 32158**
- Number of jobs available
- 1
Region
- South West, West Midlands
City/Town
- Birmingham, Fradley, Kidderminster, Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury
Building/Site
- DEFRA GRP EA AQUA HOUSE, B3 1AQ, DEFRA GRP EA HAFREN HOUSE, SY3 5LB, DEFRA GRP EA MANCE HOUSE, DY11 7SL, DEFRA GRP EA RIVERSMEET HOUSE, GL20 8JG, DEFRA GRP EA SENTINEL HOUSE, WS13 8RR
Grade
- Staff Grade 5
Post Type
- Permanent
Role Type
- Environment & Sustainability, Planning, Science
Working Pattern
- Full Time, Part Time
Salary Minimum
- £43,198
Closing Date:

- 09/11/2025, 23:55 hours
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Job description
Are you excited by the idea of developing and delivering integrated plans across a broad range of environmental specialisms, to maximise joined-up, data-led improvements?
The Integrated Environment Planning Team (IEP) in West Midlands Area Operations offers the perfect opportunities to find a fulfilling role if so.
The role involves championing integrated working by spotting and acting on opportunities to bring multiple teams, workstreams, and data sources together to achieve more. This role is critical to resolve the complex, interlinked issues facing the environment, such as water quality, water resources, biodiversity, land management and flood risk management.
The role also contributes to and benefits from strong technical networks to help drive best practice and continuous improvement.
You will be involved in the commissioning, integration, analysis, and visualisation of data to help technical teams and area leadership target resources and identify priorities.The team
The IEP catchment planning & Water Framework Directive (WFD) team consists of specialists in catchment planning, WFD, waste planning and data visualisation. We are a team of experienced advisors, central to environmental decision making, who facilitate integrated actions to maximise benefits for people and wildlife.
We work closely with sister IEP teams dealing with water resources, water transfer and water quality, and across operational teams within the West Midlands Area and National colleagues.Experience/skills required
Analytical, open-minded, collaborative thinking - craft compelling, evidence-based, action-oriented narratives from complex information.
Excellent communication and influencing skills - produce clear persuasive written material and visualisations and brief senior colleagues and customers.
Strong data literacy and visualisation capabilities - able to extract, combine and analyse data from multiple sources, respecting data quality and integrity and create insightful visualisations.

Skills using the following an advantage:

- Geographic Information Systems
- Power Query
- Power BI

Good organisational skills with ability to plan, track, and deliver to set timescales, working under your own initiative.
Understanding of environmental planning at catchment and river basin scales and ability to see connections across a range of planning processes such as River Basin Plans, Water Resource Management Plans, Local Plans, and Local Industrial Strategies, with a focus on enabling sustainable growth.
Understanding of Water Framework Directive, water quality issues and catchment-based approach would be an advantage.Contact and additional information
At the Environment Agency we value our employees, recognise individual circumstances and champion the importance of maintaining a health work/life balance. We support employees to grow in a direction that reflects their passion. As such, you’ll have the opportunity to develop with bespoke training available in areas of interest including externally recognised qualifications.Competence 1
Data and Information ManagementDescription
Please tell us about your experience successfully using data to identify, plan and deliver a multi-disciplinary environmental outcome.Competence 2
Focuses on Customers and PartnersDescription
Please evidence how you ensure that you have a clear focus on the needs of customers and partners in delivering your work.Competence 3
Influences and Persuades OthersDescription
Please describe how you present a case in a convincing and attractive way that wins people over, and how you succeed in getting them to follow your plans willingly.Competence 4
Strategic Environment PlanningDescription
Please explain how you expect to contribute to strategic environment planning in West Midlands Area in this role.