Fisheries Officer

1 week ago

Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Technical Officer to the Fisheries, Biodiversity & Geomorphology Team in our Hertfordshire-North London area.
- We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated professionals, with excellent technical and inter-personal skills and a proven track record of managing competing workloads. You will manage and deliver your own workloads as well as working collaboratively with others, both within the team and across the business to provide top quality fisheries advice and guidance. The role is full of variety and will require significant office based and frequent field-based activity.- You will engage with a wide range of internal teams and external customers providing technical and operational advice, including Local Authorities, angling clubs, NGOs, Water Companies, contractors and developers. This will include assessing ecological risks and collaboratively delivering benefits for people and wildlife, through our permitting processes, project delivery and advisory role with a strong focus on partnership delivery.

The team
- You’ll join a team of fisheries specialists within the wider Fisheries, Biodiversity & Geomorphology area team. Our area supports predominantly coarse fish, eel & non migratory salmonid populations across a range of rivers, still waters and chalk streams.
- Major challenges include improving fish/eel habitats and passage, restoring urban river and still water habitats and providing an advisory service to a significant angling community.

Experience/skills required
- . Excellent communication skills and the ability to integrate across a range of customers and partners- highly developed negotiation and influencing skills with experience of influencing decision-makers, operators, business and partners
- an innovator who achieves results
- A fisheries background and related qualifications, as well as relevant operational experience
- you are knowledgeable in fisheries and aquatic ecology.
- have extensive field experience
- a strong science and environmental grounding
- a good working knowledge of fisheries and environmental legislation, Government policy and strategy, and best practice relating to freshwater fisheries management; and river and still-water restoration
- expertise in fish identification and the ecological requirements of freshwater fish populations
- experience of fisheries survey and monitoring techniques
- A full driving licence and confidence in driving is essential

Contact and additional information
- Richard Tyner, Team Leader - Fisheries

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