Waste Crime Senior Advisor - 31683

Overview

At the Environment Agency we aspire for inclusivity to thrive in our workforce. We embrace equal opportunities and flexible work arrangements, ensuring everyone can contribute and succeed.

We are looking for a strategic thinker who sees the bigger picture and is passionate about tackling crime in the waste sector. This Environment Agency priority attracts a great deal of attention and scrutiny from the government, media and waste industry. The team has a varied portfolio to:

• Secure sustainable funding.
• Shape strategy to guide the organisation.
• Provide support and expertise to effectively embed strategy.
• Develop metrics and use data-driven insights to assess the scale of waste crime and the effectiveness of interventions.
• Advise and influence Defra to ensure effective powers and legislation to stop offending.
• Provide leadership on strategic communications and external engagement to deter waste crime.
• Deliver accurate and accessible information to inform, engage, and foster understanding across diverse audiences.

In this role you will initially:

• Take a lead role in reviewing the Strategy to Reduce Offending in the Waste Sector.
• Engage extensively internally and externally and collaborate with key stakeholders including Defra, industry and operational teams to shape strategy.
• Utilise data to ensure that the strategy is grounded in evidence.
• Develop control plans to translate strategy into meaningful action across the organisation.

We are seeking a dynamic leader who will challenge the status quo, drive innovation, continuous improvement and take a collaborative approach confident to work with a wide range of people. We require a team player who is flexible and can turn their attention to a range of work areas, priorities and challenges, both within the Waste Crime Team and out into the wider Waste and Resources Regulation department.

The team

You’ll join the Waste Crime team, a small but high performing team in Waste and Resources Regulation, part of the EA’s Environment and Business Directorate. Our purpose is to provide strategic direction and shape our organisation\\\’s approach to reducing crime in the waste sector. We use evidence, expertise, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.

Experience/skills Required

• Ability to build and maintain relationships with colleagues and partners in dispersed and external networks.
• Skilled at persuading others and influencing outcomes from a senior audience
• Confidence to challenge how we work and be creative in building solutions that support efficiency and effectiveness.
• Enthusiastic, well-organised, and tenacious to keep work moving at pace.
• Clear communicator who works to get the best out of people.
• Track record of achieving results and experience of planning, managing, and delivering to tight deadlines.
• Ability to re-evaluate how we work to enable effective and efficient delivery
• Previous experience in a regulation and/or enforcement.
• Broad understanding of the waste industry
• An awareness of the strategic landscape challenges we face tackling crime in the waste sector.

You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.

Contact and additional information

You’ll have an EA Office base location, as a national role the working location is flexible / hybrid. We use smart tools to stay connected and reduce travel, some travel and overnights may be required. You’ll have an inclusive incident management objective in your development plan. We’ll help you find a role to suit your needs. Appropriate training will be given. Please read the Candidate / Additional Information Pack for information. Any queries, please contact samantha.clayton@environment-agency.gov.uk or bob.mead@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Applications will be “blind” assessed using your answers to the competency questions. If you consent to being held on a reserve list, we’ll hold your details for 6 months and may offer you an alternative post.

Competencies

1. Achieves Results
   It is your answers given to these questions that will be used for interview selection. More information on how to answer competency questions can be found on page 10 of the candidate pack. It is highly recommended that you read this before answering. Please refer to the EA Capability Dictionary here https://en.calameo.com/read/004433680aab41adf893b for guidance on how to support your answers. Please consider the situation, task, action, and result (STAR) when structuring your answers. Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets. Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results. Describe a time where you have taken a lead role, working with others to deliver a challenging project or piece of work.
2. Influences and Persuades Others
   It is your answers given to these questions that will be used for interview selection. More information on how to answer competency questions can be found on page 10 of the candidate pack. It is highly recommended that you read this before answering. Please refer to the EA Capability Dictionary here https://en.calameo.com/read/004433680aab41adf893b for guidance on how to support your answers. Please consider the situation, task, action, and result (STAR) when structuring your answers. Presenting a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly, often succeeding where logic and reason alone would fail. Please give an example of when you have influenced a range of stakeholders to follow a new approach.
3. Shapes organisational approach & delivery
   It is your answers given to these questions that will be used for interview selection. More information on how to answer competency questions can be found on page 10 of the candidate pack. It is highly recommended that you read this before answering. Please refer to the EA Capability Dictionary here https://en.calameo.com/read/004433680aab41adf893b for guidance on how to support your answers. Please consider the situation, task, action, and result (STAR) when structuring your answers. Informs Government Policy and / or designs, implements and supports an approach to translate it into cost-effective operational activity delivering outcomes for people and the environment. Describe a time where you have shaped and/ or implemented a new approach to a diverse audience.

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.