Team Leader- Integrated Environment Planning - Herts and North London - 31693

Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you!

This is an exciting opportunity in which you will use your drive and vision to provide leadership and direction to the Integrated Environment Planning (IEP) team in the Herts and North London Area. The team you lead will be specialists who work to deliver environmental improvements for water quality, water resources and river catchments. A key focus in the next five years will be working closely with water companies on their investment programmes. Your teams will work with others in our National Directorate to hold water companies to account in their commitments to protect the environment. Your role will include maintaining the health, safety and wellbeing of your team, supporting them to develop themselves, identifying training needs and managing ways of working to ensure we can meet the needs of the future. You will need to balance the work within your team to ensure that they are focussed on the areas that will deliver the greatest environmental benefit.

You will oversee budgets, work planning, and recruitment whilst needing to be flexible and adaptable to changing work priorities. You will be a role model and promote inclusion by respecting differences in our workforce and build a supportive and engaging workplace. You will also take an active role in the area for the Environment Agency’s Incident response. Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

The team
We’re a team of trusted advisors at the heart of environmental decision making, bringing together internal and external partners to facilitate integrated actions and collective delivery. This team is one of 2 IEP Teams in the Area, and leads on integrated environmental planning, with a focus on water quality (the other team focuses on Water Resources).

Find out more about why its a great place to work! in the additional information attached.

Experience/skills Required

• passionate about managing, developing and supporting a team with multiple priorities and competing demands
• Enthusiastic to achieve results and in your ability to lead others to do the same.
• a positive role model who embodies Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and can inspire, motivate and enthuse a diverse range of people
• able to balance and manage demands on the team from internal and external sources to help prioritise and manage workloads.
• an excellent communicator, who can influence teams and partners to think strategically when delivering environmental outcomes.
• Able to influence the delivery of outcomes through others, often across multiple teams, and to influence our partners.
• Apply your experience of managing the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself and others

Contact and additional information

The Environment Agency is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and will take appropriate measures to enable persons with disabilities to access equal employment opportunities by providing reasonable adjustments at assessment stage and workplace adjustments should you be offered a role. This permanent role will be based in our Herts and North London Area’s Alchemy Office which is fully accessible. Some occasional travel may be required to other offices and locations. We support flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share. Our hybrid working model combines home and office working, however you will be expected to attend the office for certain meetings.

To discuss any aspects of the roles please contact WFPG_HNL@environment-agency.gov.uk or julienunn@environment-agency.gov.uk, 07771504815

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Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing