Waste Crime Senior Advisor - 31683

Overview

The Environment Agency prioritises inclusivity, equal opportunities and flexible work arrangements to ensure 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 attention and scrutiny from government, media and the waste industry. The Waste Crime team in Waste and Resources Regulation provides strategic direction to reduce crime in the waste sector and supports policy, legislation and resource delivery through evidence, expertise and innovation.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Aware of the strategic landscape challenges in tackling crime in the waste sector.

Additional Information

You’ll have an EA office base location; as a national role the working location is flexible / hybrid. Some travel and overnights may be required. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome flexible working patterns, including job share. We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment.

Please read the Candidate / Additional Information Pack for information. If you have questions, contact samantha.clayton@environment-agency.gov.uk or bob.mead@environment-agency.gov.uk. Applications will be blind assessed using your answers to competency questions. If you consent to being held on a reserve list, we may offer you an alternative post for up to 6 months.

Competencies

Competence 1: Achieves Results. It is your answers to competency questions that will be used for interview selection. See the candidate pack for guidance and the EA Capability Dictionary. Structure responses using STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) and describe times you led delivery of challenging projects.

Competence 2: Influences and Persuades Others. Present a case to win support for new approaches and provide an example of influencing a range of stakeholders.

Competence 3: Shapes organisational approach & delivery. Describe how you have shaped or implemented a new approach to a diverse audience and linked it to policy translation into operational activity.

If applying from the Civil Service, note the Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant. See the candidate pack for details on continuity of service and redundancy provisions. We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds and flexible working patterns. We guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria.