We have two exciting opportunities to help shape the future of England’s estuarine and coastal environment — both playing a vital role in delivering positive environmental outcomes for people and nature. If you have the talent and commitment to help us achieve this, we’d love to hear from you.
One post will lead the monitoring elements of the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Programme — a flagship initiative designed to accelerate our ability to assess England’s natural capital and transform environmental decision-making. You’ll lead projects that integrate natural capital thinking across the land-sea interface, enabling a catchment-to-coast approach. Your work will span from steering the design of monitoring programs to applying case studies and influencing how evidence is used in decision-making.
The second post will focus on leading our Restoring Meadows, Marsh and Reef (ReMeMaRe) initiative, which aims to restore 15% of priority estuarine and coastal habitats — including saltmarsh, seagrass, and oyster reefs — by 2043. You’ll provide program management for a growing pipeline of restoration projects and support other key elements of the initiative, including stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning.
Depending on your technical expertise, both roles may also contribute to other priority areas such as marine policy, planning and regulation. A key part of each role will be helping to identify and secure the evidence and information needed to support robust environmental decision-making.
Collaboration is central to both roles. You’ll work closely with colleagues across the Environment Agency and external partners such as Defra, other government bodies, industry, and academia.
Responsibilities
The key areas of work and responsibilities for these roles. Points identify typical areas of outputs and suggest anticipated results but are not exhaustive or specific.
- Provides specialist expertise and guidance across the organization, and wider, on a range of issues, to ensure the effective implementation of legislation, policy, and evidence.
- Identifies gaps in current operations and commissions or leads new work, ensuring decisions are made on sound evidence and are in line with organizational objectives.
- Interacts widely, developing and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners, both internally and externally, to influence decisions and bring about successful outcomes and solutions.
- Develops and reviews statements, briefings and other documentation to enable consistent understanding and application of legislation, evidence and policy.
- Leads and manages work and projects, delivering directly and through others. Identifies risks and opportunities, taking action to deal with issues, enhance the service and ensure appropriate allocation of time and effort.
- Where managing people, leads the delivery of specialized advice and guidance and / or effective implementation of reputational, political and / or technically complex regulatory or operational activities. Often this involves managing a diverse range of skills.
- Leads or supports project teams to achieve well planned and managed integrated solutions. Typically these are complex projects with a wide scope, possibly involving multiple partners.
- Accountable for good quality management reporting and documentation to support the planning of strategic priorities, to inform business decisions and provide a sound basis from which to communicate with and influence internal and external partners.
- Develops, maintains and shares technical expertise with staff to improve knowledge and competence throughout the organization as required.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
The knowledge, skills and experience indicated usually reflect the minimum levels required for competent performance in the role. Due to the generic nature of job family profiles, detailed requirements need to be specified in supporting documentation, such as the advert.
- Roles require significant experience gained within a specific field / discipline. Depending on the type of role, this could be specialist technical or operational skills, or other relevant expertise such as policy / project management.
- Requires thorough understanding of relevant business concepts and their application as the role is required to apply considerable judgement and influence the actions and behaviors of others.
- Roles typically require a relevant degree or equivalent experience.
Salary: £52,929 Pro-rata
Application deadline: August 20, 2025
