Packaging Modelling Quality Assurance Senior Officer
| Posting date: | 20 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £39,439 to £47,039 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £39,439 - £43,569, London: £42,577 - £47,039. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 365815/2 |
Summary
How can we support Local Authorities to improve their waste collection infrastructure and enable the public to do the right thing?
In this role you will play a major part in delivering the Collection and Packaging reforms which set out to accomplish all the above.
The introduction of an “Extended Producer Responsibility” for packaging will incentivise companies to take greater responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products resulting in more sustainable use of resources, mitigation of climate change and reduced waste and pollution.
We are looking for an analyst to join the Resources and Waste evidence team, to support and coordinate workstreams to ensure the analytical quality and robustness of the numerical models which will be critical to delivering this policy. The role will be delivery focused leading to the implementation of a major government project in a technically complex policy area. You will work closely with policy colleagues, analysts from all professions, and external contractors. The role will also involve engaging with stakeholders from industry, local authorities, other government departments and the Devolved Administrations. This is a brilliant time to join the team as the transition from policy design towards delivery offers huge opportunity for direct impact and a blank slate for creative analysis.
The Resources and Waste Team are developing business critical numerical models to calculate local authorities waste management costs and ensure the charging of producers placing packaging on the UK market.
These complex models, incorporating large amounts of data, analysis and coding, are at the core of delivering Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging.
You will report to the Packaging Modelling Quality Assurance Lead and support the analytical quality and robustness of these models through:
- Working with a project manager, taking responsibility for planning and monitoring progress of quality assurance activities across internal and external teams;
- Engaging with Defra modellers and data specialists to ensure they embed best quality assurance practices in their day-to-day work;
- Working with a delivery team, providing the technical input to documenting quality assurance process for auditing and stakeholder engagement purposes, and to support the development of future business critical models.
Beyond the specific area of Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, we anticipate that you will be offered opportunities to support and engage with other policy areas in Resources and Waste and beyond, where similar business critical models are being developed.