Senior Environmental Coordinator

Description

Working alongside a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, you will lead on the co-creation of partnership schemes across multiple river catchments and support their co-design and co-delivery. This is fundamental to ensuring we deliver the right solutions, in the right way, with the right partners.

This role is an exciting opportunity to work closely with environmental stakeholders and catchment partnerships to support the development and delivery of their catchment plans. A key focus of the role is identifying and advancing partnership opportunities that align with Thames Water’s business drivers while contributing to the improvement of river health and the wider water environment.

• Work collaboratively with internal teams and partners to ensure catchment opportunities are effectively evaluated and prioritised for their potential to improve river health and stakeholder relationships.
• Support the management of stakeholder relationships within allocated catchments, ensuring regular engagement through workshops, consultations, and events. Facilitate contributions to relevant statutory consultations.
• Deliver tailored engagement activities to ensure all partners and stakeholders are well-informed, aligned with our plans, and able to contribute positively to catchment and river health improvements.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders to support integrated and innovative approaches to improving river health and catchment management.
• Collaborate with organisations such as the Catchment-Based Approach (CaBA), Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trusts, and other environmental groups to foster long-term opportunities and address barriers to achieving catchment-scale improvements.
• Own the development of catchment needs, constraints, and opportunities, enabling the identification of solutions that deliver tangible benefits.

Requirements

• Understanding of Natural Capital principles and experience in applying these to identify and deliver environmental enhancements with measurable benefits.
• Proven ability to build and manage productive relationships with diverse stakeholders, preferably environmental groups, councils or regulators.
• GIS experience.
• Demonstrable experience in planning, delivering, and monitoring environmental or water-related projects.
• Strong communication skills, with experience in tailoring messages to a variety of audiences, including technical experts, community groups, and decision-makers.
• Track record of driving projects forward, overcoming barriers, and ensuring outcomes align with organisational and partnership goals.
• Ideally, have membership in a professional body.
• Desirable knowledge of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) to reduce flood risk and improve water quality.
• Experience organising and facilitating workshops, consultations, and engagement activities to align stakeholders and gather input effectively.
• Desirable experience in developing and delivering projects that incorporate natural flood risk management (NFM) solutions, such as wetland creation, river restoration, and woodland planting.
• Familiarity with tools, data, and frameworks for evaluating and addressing poor water quality and environmental challenges.
• Experience in working at a catchment scale to develop and implement plans that improve river health, water quality, and/or catchment resilience.

Benefits

This position will be Hybrid, based at Clearwater Court – Reading. The salary for this position is up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience.

• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
• Competitive salary up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience.

Training + Development

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