Partnership & Community Engagement Adv

**Salary & Benefits**: Salary £37.487 to £44.619 per annum dependant on experience, annual bonus, attractive pension scheme (Up to 10% company contribution), life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary and 25 days annual leave, bank holidays, plus a wellness day and development opportunities in line with the **Partnership & Community Engagement Advisor** progression plan. We also offer a fantastic flexible benefits package, where you can choose from benefits such as health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover. Colleagues also have access to a retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more

**Location**: The role is a flexible hybrid working arrangement, although there is an expectation that 50% of your time will be visiting operational sites from across the Yorkshire region. Please note the site you will be based at, will be determined by your home location. A full UK driving license (with no more than 6 points) is an essential requirement of this role, with the ability to travel between sites.

**Work type**: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

We have an opportunity for a **Partnership & Community Engagement Advisor** to join the River Health department at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

**What we do**:
Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

Here at Yorkshire Water, we’re passionate about the health of Yorkshire rivers and we’re committed to playing our part in a cleaner, healthier environment for everyone to enjoy. We’re looking for passionate people to join a new team focussed on preventing pollution from our assets, reducing storm overflows, and working with partners to improve the condition of Yorkshire rivers.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. River Health is a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

**Where you fit in**:
As our **Partnership & Community Engagement Advisor** you will focus on creating engagement with customers, colleagues, and stakeholders, and building trusting relationships that in turn builds on the reputation of the company with customers and the sector.

This will involve supporting the development and implementation of engagement strategies, building new partnerships, and supporting our current strategic partnerships. In addition, there will be a requirement to repair and build trust with external stakeholders through open and proactive interaction such as owning a ‘Creating and leading Yorkshire Rivers forum’.

The **Partnership & Community Engagement Advisor** will work with the wider internal partnership community to work effectively and efficiently in enhancing the perception of Yorkshire Water as a leader in the environment, including being a daily point of contact for several important partnerships and relationships with local interest groups, citizen science and environmental academics.

**What skills & qualifications you will need**:

- Experience of communicating, engagement and influencing at a senior level (Head of department / General Manager level)
- Degree level technical qualification or successful track record within in an equivalent technical position at leadership level.
- Previous experience and knowledge of business process and operation within a regulated. company and an understanding of the regulatory framework.
- Ability to write, interpret and sign off technical papers for the business.
- Technical expertise in all aspects of Wastewater regulation.
- A proven record of delivering sustained performance across the wastewater business.
- Knowledge and experience of Risk Management.
- Strong people leader experienced in managing technical teams and driving change.
- Highly developed coaching approach to managing people.
- Good analytical skills, able to compile, assess, interpretate and communicate data.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Experience of creating complex and ambitious business cases.
- Experience of strategic thinking, establishing clear str