Team Leader - Investigations and Disruption Team - 31272

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Team Leader - Investigations and Disruption Team - 31272

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Job Description

The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve a work/life balance, especially when they work nationally.

The Team Leader role will be based in our Investigations and Disruption Team (IDT), within the Environmental Markets and Regulation department (EM&R). You will lead a dispersed team and be responsible for service delivery, performance and resilience.

IDT are a national team with investigators and officers based across England, ensuring a consistent disruptive approach to waste fraud across the country.

The EM&R department ensures that companies are disposing of their waste correctly by enforcing government regulations- ‘right waste, right place’ and IDT work closely with our compliance colleagues across the department to prevent and investigate waste fraud.

You will be key to leading, managing and supporting a team of investigators and officers, to enable them to fulfil their roles of delivering on disruption and enforcement.

Despite the stringent nature of our work, we are committed to maintaining a culture of tolerance and inclusivity, with a focus on maintaining staff well-being.

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. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role. This may attract an additional payment. Please see the candidate pack for further information.

The team

Environmental Markets and Regulation is a supportive and inclusive department that encourages our teams’ health, safety, wellbeing, and development. We aim to improve the quality of recycling and ensure waste entering and leaving the country is handled appropriately for recycling and recovery. We help to protect and improve the environment by regulating industry, ensuring compliance, and eliminating illegal activities.

Key areas we regulate: Packaging Waste, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Batteries and International Waste Shipments.

Experience/skills Required

The successful candidate should demonstrate the following:

The ability to lead a diverse group of people
Enthusiasm to improve how we do things
Excellent communication skills to engage with teams and individuals with a range of personalities, abilities and backgrounds
Leading change successfully and identifying opportunities to improve
Ability to deliver high priority work through your teams
A positive attitude, alongside a genuine desire to support others
Ability to manage completing workloads and to prioritise your own personal development, as
well as that of your team members
Managing the health, safety and well-being of yourself and others
Ability to deliver results through others by managing many priorities and conflicting demands
Build and maintain productive relations to achieve environmental benefits

Desirable:

Experience building relationships and working in multi-agency settings
Experience managing within multi-agency settings
An understanding of the Criminal Justice System
An understanding of data analysis

Contact and additional information

We offer an attractive and competitive benefits package including:

A fantastic pension scheme, competitive salary, flexible working and a starting annual leave allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays (pro rata). For more information, please see the candidate pack.

Interviews for this role are expected to take place at the start of August in person in Birmingham. Further details will be communicated nearer the time.

You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. The Environment Agency utilise a hybrid working approach, including office and home working. National travel for training and meetings in is expected.

We may use the outcomes from this recruitment for future vacancies within the next 6 months. For an informal discussion, please contact Deirdre.Whitcombe@environment-agency.gov.uk

Competence 1

Leads People

Description

Provides leadership that inspires and motivates others to achieve their personal goals and the goals of the Environment Agency

You will lead an experienced team. Tell us about a time where you inspired and motivated a team to achieve great outcomes.

Competence 2

Delivers Results Through Others

Description

Harnesses the team to deliver results on time, to required standards and in line with organisational processes and procedures

Tell us about a time when you supported others to deliver a successful result.

Competence 3

Builds and Sustains Relationships

Description

Develops and maintains effective working relationships

Tell us about a time where you led a team through a challenging time, whilst maintaining effective relationships throughout.

If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Associate

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Information Technology

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Location:: England, United Kingdom
Salary:: £60,000 - £80,000
Job Type:: FullTime
Category:: Management & Operations