28840 - Training & Skills Support Officer (Fisheries)
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £27,245 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2024 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 28840 |
Summary
Working for the Environment Agency means protecting and improving the environment and tackling issues of National Importance. Such broad scope of work calls for diverse, multi-skilled teams.
Ensuring we have a skilled, knowledgeable fisheries teams is vital to ensuring we can protect and improve the environment. To do this we need to strengthen technical resilience, and this has been identified as the number 1 priority by leadership teams. This post will provide support across the whole organisation and will drive improvements in operational delivery, recruitment and retention of existing staff and will support the transfer of their knowledge and skills at national and area level.
You will join the National Fisheries Service and work with your team mates to support our technical experts to deliver a world class service to the wider business and to our external stakeholders.
Your main focus will be helping us to build fisheries skills and knowledge across the Environment Agency by:
Providing admin support to book meetings and ensure we provide national support to colleagues.
Provide support so our people know which training is available and most suitable for them.
Assisting with development of tools to enable staff to track their development and identify training needs.
Administering the team inbox and task list management- ensuring all geographical areas and customers are supported.
Supporting the delivery and provision of online and in person development and training events and resources for our fisheries community.
Supporting the provision of workshops to educate the angling community.
Providing procurement support to the team
Helping maintain and develop our SharePoint sites including file plans.
There will be opportunities to develop yourself in key areas aligned to your interests.
We’re committed to having an inclusive workforce so we welcome applications from everyone. Some travel for meetings and site visits will be required.
The team
Your post will be in the National Fisheries Service (NFS) within National Monitoring. You will work closely with the whole team and with colleagues in the wider organisation including Areas, Environment and Business, Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) and Chief Scientist Group.
The team provides a technical advice service supporting fisheries and ecological protection and improvement. We provide information about impacts in aquatic environments and evidence to support mitigation and improvements.
Experience/skills required
You are passionate about your work and want to make a difference to help improve the environment. If you have some but not all of the skills and experience listed and are willing to learn, we want to hear from you.
You will be:
A team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
Able to use your own initiative to achieve planned outcomes.
Well-organised, computer literate and able to respond to tight deadlines.
Focused on delivering work to time and with a clear customer focus.
Confident talking to our customers to understand their needs.
Able to book venues and organise large meetings (with support).
Confident to take a leading role in organising technical staff meetings.
Able to communicate with staff at all levels to ensure we deliver for our customers.
Have some knowledge or experience in ecology and fish, education and skills, communication and engagement or administrative work.
Ensuring we have a skilled, knowledgeable fisheries teams is vital to ensuring we can protect and improve the environment. To do this we need to strengthen technical resilience, and this has been identified as the number 1 priority by leadership teams. This post will provide support across the whole organisation and will drive improvements in operational delivery, recruitment and retention of existing staff and will support the transfer of their knowledge and skills at national and area level.
You will join the National Fisheries Service and work with your team mates to support our technical experts to deliver a world class service to the wider business and to our external stakeholders.
Your main focus will be helping us to build fisheries skills and knowledge across the Environment Agency by:
Providing admin support to book meetings and ensure we provide national support to colleagues.
Provide support so our people know which training is available and most suitable for them.
Assisting with development of tools to enable staff to track their development and identify training needs.
Administering the team inbox and task list management- ensuring all geographical areas and customers are supported.
Supporting the delivery and provision of online and in person development and training events and resources for our fisheries community.
Supporting the provision of workshops to educate the angling community.
Providing procurement support to the team
Helping maintain and develop our SharePoint sites including file plans.
There will be opportunities to develop yourself in key areas aligned to your interests.
We’re committed to having an inclusive workforce so we welcome applications from everyone. Some travel for meetings and site visits will be required.
The team
Your post will be in the National Fisheries Service (NFS) within National Monitoring. You will work closely with the whole team and with colleagues in the wider organisation including Areas, Environment and Business, Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) and Chief Scientist Group.
The team provides a technical advice service supporting fisheries and ecological protection and improvement. We provide information about impacts in aquatic environments and evidence to support mitigation and improvements.
Experience/skills required
You are passionate about your work and want to make a difference to help improve the environment. If you have some but not all of the skills and experience listed and are willing to learn, we want to hear from you.
You will be:
A team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
Able to use your own initiative to achieve planned outcomes.
Well-organised, computer literate and able to respond to tight deadlines.
Focused on delivering work to time and with a clear customer focus.
Confident talking to our customers to understand their needs.
Able to book venues and organise large meetings (with support).
Confident to take a leading role in organising technical staff meetings.
Able to communicate with staff at all levels to ensure we deliver for our customers.
Have some knowledge or experience in ecology and fish, education and skills, communication and engagement or administrative work.