Environmental Management System Advisor in London

This role supports Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to operate in a more environmentally sustainable way by providing specialist advice, analysis, and reporting on environmental performance. The postholder will play a key role in helping to reduce environmental impacts and carbon emissions, supporting NRW's environmental audit plans, and maintaining systems aligned with recognised environmental management standards.

Based within the Finance and Corporate Services Directorate, the role operates across the organisation, building effective working relationships to promote best practice, influence behaviours, and drive continuous environmental improvement. Reporting to the Internal Audit and Environmental Management System Manager, the postholder will not have line management responsibility but will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy in managing their workload and priorities.

The role is primarily office-based with flexible working arrangements. However, there is a requirement to travel to undertake in-person audits. As some locations are not accessible by public transport, a full, valid UK driving licence is essential.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face-to-face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

What you will do:

• Provide specialist technical advice, guidance and support the rest of NRW to reduce the environmental impact of its activities.
• Help to support our EMS (Environmental Management System) audit plan.
• Help maintain our internal environment management system and certification to the ISO14001 environmental standard.
• Report on our environmental performance, including in our WG net zero report.
• Establish relationships across the organisation to develop a culture of minimising the environmental impacts of our work.
• Support the investigation of any environmental incidents.
• Encourage and facilitate a culture of reducing our carbon footprint and encouraging the best environmental performance across the organisation.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post.
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post.
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills:

• Knowledge of Environmental Management systems, auditing EMS performance and hold or be working towards an Environmental Management qualification.
• Good, broad knowledge of NRW and its functions to understand how best to improve NRW's environmental performance across all its work areas.
• Previous experience of running environmental audits.
• Effective partnership development and negotiation skills.
• Ability to analyse and present environmental information and write concise audit reports with clear recommendations.
• Able to work as part of other teams with a range of skills and specialisms.

Welsh Language level requirements:

• Essential: Level A1 - Entry level

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Additional Information:

• Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.
• Natural Resources Wales is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Benefits:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme).
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days.
• Generous leave entitlements for all your life needs.
• Commitment to professional development.
• Health and wellbeing benefits and support.
• Weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose.

We're passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on a variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.