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28807 - Carbon Specialist - NEAS SE
| Posting date: | 27 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £39,635 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2024 |
| Location: | West Malling, Kent |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 28807 |
Summary
“Want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.”
Do you want to help the Environment Agency (EA) reach Net Zero Carbon? Do you have experience in project management or supporting projects to deliver sustainability? We are looking for a Carbon Specialist to join our National Environmental Assessment and Sustainability (NEAS) team in the Southeast. This is a key role which will work integrally with a range of capital flood and coastal defence projects to provide technical carbon support,assurance,verification and leadership.
You will support the EA’s carbon management process, help projects in the use of whole-life carbon assessments, decarbonisation intelligence, and optioneering to maximise the reduction of carbon emissions. You will use your experience of working with projects to promote the use of the carbon reduction hierarchy to foster low carbon thinking, whilst providing insight into the latest low-carbon innovations and decarbonisation technologies relevant to the EA’s asset types, materials and projects.
You will be responsible for verifying that projects have adequately considered carbon reduction opportunities and assess their performance against their respective carbon budgets.
You will work jointly with colleagues and our delivery partners to drive carbon reduction and wider sustainable delivery, such as circular economy practises, Biodiversity Net Gain and social equity.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident.
This may attract an additional payment and full training, alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.
The team
NEAS is divided into six operational Hubs. Each hub has an Operational Unit Manager overseeing 10-15 staff who provide technical environmental expertise and help the day-to-day delivery of projects within our flood & coastal erosion risk management programme. You will work within this team in the South East Hub, reporting to the Hub Team Leader and being responsible for the carbon-related roles.
Experience/skills required
• Preferable to be educated to Degree standard in an environmental science, sustainability, engineering or related subject, however not essential.
• Experience of influencing behaviours, overcoming resistance and managing change.
• Experience of undertaking carbon assessment and delivering carbon reductions is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of significant infrastructure projects.
• You will need to demonstrate experience working within multi-disciplinary project teams and effecting sustainable change.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with both internal and external stakeholders as relationship management is a key element of the role.
• Membership of a professional environmental or engineering institute is requested but not essential.
• Knowledge of flood and coastal risk management project appraisal process, however in house training will be provided.
• Experience of project management, time management and prioritising various tasks
Do you want to help the Environment Agency (EA) reach Net Zero Carbon? Do you have experience in project management or supporting projects to deliver sustainability? We are looking for a Carbon Specialist to join our National Environmental Assessment and Sustainability (NEAS) team in the Southeast. This is a key role which will work integrally with a range of capital flood and coastal defence projects to provide technical carbon support,assurance,verification and leadership.
You will support the EA’s carbon management process, help projects in the use of whole-life carbon assessments, decarbonisation intelligence, and optioneering to maximise the reduction of carbon emissions. You will use your experience of working with projects to promote the use of the carbon reduction hierarchy to foster low carbon thinking, whilst providing insight into the latest low-carbon innovations and decarbonisation technologies relevant to the EA’s asset types, materials and projects.
You will be responsible for verifying that projects have adequately considered carbon reduction opportunities and assess their performance against their respective carbon budgets.
You will work jointly with colleagues and our delivery partners to drive carbon reduction and wider sustainable delivery, such as circular economy practises, Biodiversity Net Gain and social equity.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident.
This may attract an additional payment and full training, alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.
The team
NEAS is divided into six operational Hubs. Each hub has an Operational Unit Manager overseeing 10-15 staff who provide technical environmental expertise and help the day-to-day delivery of projects within our flood & coastal erosion risk management programme. You will work within this team in the South East Hub, reporting to the Hub Team Leader and being responsible for the carbon-related roles.
Experience/skills required
• Preferable to be educated to Degree standard in an environmental science, sustainability, engineering or related subject, however not essential.
• Experience of influencing behaviours, overcoming resistance and managing change.
• Experience of undertaking carbon assessment and delivering carbon reductions is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of significant infrastructure projects.
• You will need to demonstrate experience working within multi-disciplinary project teams and effecting sustainable change.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with both internal and external stakeholders as relationship management is a key element of the role.
• Membership of a professional environmental or engineering institute is requested but not essential.
• Knowledge of flood and coastal risk management project appraisal process, however in house training will be provided.
• Experience of project management, time management and prioritising various tasks