This role offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with environmental stakeholders and catchment partnerships to support the development and delivery of their catchment plans. A key focus of the role is identifying and advancing partnership opportunities that align with Thames Water’s business drivers while contributing to the improvement of river health and the wider water environment.

Working alongside a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, you will support the co-creation and co-design of partnership schemes across multiple river catchments. This is fundamental to ensuring we deliver the right solutions, in the right way, with the right partners.

What you’ll be doing as a Catchment Coordinator

• Support the management of stakeholder relationships within allocated catchments, ensuring regular engagement through workshops, consultations, and events. Facilitate contributions to relevant statutory consultations.
• Deliver tailored engagement activities to ensure all partners and stakeholders are well-informed, aligned with our plans, and able to contribute positively to catchment and river health improvements.
• Support the understanding of catchment needs, constraints, and opportunities, enabling the identification of solutions that deliver tangible benefits. Work collaboratively with internal teams and partners to ensure catchment opportunities are effectively evaluated and prioritised for their potential to improve river health and stakeholder relationships.
• Collaborate with organisations such as the Catchment-Based Approach (CaBA), Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trusts, and other environmental groups to foster long-term opportunities and address barriers to achieving catchment-scale improvements.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders to support integrated and innovative approaches to improving river health and catchment management.

• Proven ability to build and manage productive relationships with diverse stakeholders, preferably environmental groups, councils or regulators.
• Experience organising and facilitating workshops, consultations, and engagement activities to align stakeholders and gather input effectively.
• Good communication skills with exposure to a variety of audiences
• Experience in planning, delivering, or monitoring environmental or water-related projects.
• Track record of driving projects forward, overcoming barriers, and ensuring outcomes align with organisational and partnership goals.
• Be fully competent at using the appropriate company IT systems and Office software
• Familiarity with tools, data, and frameworks for evaluating and addressing poor water quality and environmental challenges.
• Experience in working at a catchment scale to develop and implement plans that improve river health, water quality, and catchment resilience.
• Experience in developing and delivering projects that incorporate natural flood risk management (NFM) solutions, such as wetland creation, river restoration, and woodland planting, is desirable.

• Competitive salary up to £50,000 per annum depending on experience.
• Annual Leave- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.