Senior Associate Water Resources Planning - Environment

Description

• Being responsible for driving innovation and sustainable outcomes and influencing design solutions at a project and programme level.
• You will also be involved in reviewing fee estimates and proposals, and general business development activities and will have a key role in delivering our ESS services and growing the business.
• Technical approver of environmental and sustainability deliverables in line with our business and environmental management systems.
• Providing technical leadership to environmental and sustainability teams to deliver SEA, HRA, Natural capital and BNG assessments for WRMPs.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Experience of leading environmental assessments for the water sector or other sectors (desirable)
• Well organised with strong planning and management skills, with ability to produce high quality deliverables and manage budgets and programmes.
• Significant experience in one or more of the following: Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA), Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA), Natural Capital Assessment (NCA).
• Experience of working in a client facing environment and ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders to deliver positive outcomes.
• Experience working in diverse multi-disciplined teams and leading teams to produce environmental and sustainability deliverables to a high standard.
• Qualified to Master's degree level in a relevant subject (desirable).
• Ability to problem solve, think creatively, and seek continual improvement.
• Chartered with a professional institution (e.g., CIWEM, IEMA) or equivalent level (desirable).
• Qualified in a related technical subject (Minimum of a Bachelor's degree essential).
• Experience of strategic water planning, such as Water Resource Management Plans, Regional Water Resource Plans, Drought Plans and Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (essential)

Benefits

• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance