30664 - Team Leader (Land and Water)
| Posting date: | 01 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,617 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2025 |
| Location: | West Malling |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 30664 |
Summary
Are you a motivated professional ready to make a difference?
As a Team Leader at the Environment Agency, you will lead regulatory teams overseeing various activities that impact the local environment, from waste management and farming to water quality and land management across urban and rural areas.
In this role, you will manage a team of officers responsible for regulating water quality and quantity, ensuring a cleaner, safer environment for both people and wildlife. Your team will be diverse, requiring strong leadership, team management, and performance skills to motivate both experienced officers and new recruits.
Your responsibilities will include supporting the health, safety, and wellbeing of your team, identifying training needs, and managing workloads to achieve the best environmental outcomes. You’ll need to balance tasks to ensure your team focuses on areas with the greatest environmental benefit.
The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. We will provide comprehensive training and ensure you have the tools, equipment, and protective clothing needed to carry out your duties safely and effectively.
This role will mostly be office based, with occasional site visits. There may be occasional overnight stays required, for example, to attend training courses. Your base location can be Orchard House (West Malling, ME19 5SH), Medway House (Tonbridge, TN11 9AS) or Rivers House (Canterbury, CT2 0AA).
The team
Based in either our Maidstone, Tonbridge or Canterbury office in the Kent and South London areas, you will lead a frontline team dedicated to creating a cleaner, safer, and healthier environment. Your team will regulate water quality and quantity, overseeing water companies, agricultural premises, and abstractors. You'll ensure permit compliance, taking enforcement action and providing court evidence for serious offences, all while protecting the environment and public health through a variety of regulatory activities.
Experience/skills required
With a track-record of collaborative working at all levels of an organisation, you’ll bring skills in leading, managing and developing others.
Essential:
• Strong leadership skills demonstrated by successfully leading teams to work in collaboration to achieve objectives.
• Proven working knowledge of Health, Safety & Wellbeing
• The role will require travel from time to time and so a full UK driving licence is required.
Desirable:
• Enthusiasm to achieve results and an ability to coach and mentor others to enhance their abilities and fostering their growth.
• The ability to work with a range of customers and stakeholders, internal or external, to support our goals.
• The skills to both prioritise effectively for your team and with the wider business.
• A flexible approach to work and a capacity to make decisions using available information and evidence.
• Awareness of legislation relevant to permitting, investigating and/or information requests.
As a Team Leader at the Environment Agency, you will lead regulatory teams overseeing various activities that impact the local environment, from waste management and farming to water quality and land management across urban and rural areas.
In this role, you will manage a team of officers responsible for regulating water quality and quantity, ensuring a cleaner, safer environment for both people and wildlife. Your team will be diverse, requiring strong leadership, team management, and performance skills to motivate both experienced officers and new recruits.
Your responsibilities will include supporting the health, safety, and wellbeing of your team, identifying training needs, and managing workloads to achieve the best environmental outcomes. You’ll need to balance tasks to ensure your team focuses on areas with the greatest environmental benefit.
The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. We will provide comprehensive training and ensure you have the tools, equipment, and protective clothing needed to carry out your duties safely and effectively.
This role will mostly be office based, with occasional site visits. There may be occasional overnight stays required, for example, to attend training courses. Your base location can be Orchard House (West Malling, ME19 5SH), Medway House (Tonbridge, TN11 9AS) or Rivers House (Canterbury, CT2 0AA).
The team
Based in either our Maidstone, Tonbridge or Canterbury office in the Kent and South London areas, you will lead a frontline team dedicated to creating a cleaner, safer, and healthier environment. Your team will regulate water quality and quantity, overseeing water companies, agricultural premises, and abstractors. You'll ensure permit compliance, taking enforcement action and providing court evidence for serious offences, all while protecting the environment and public health through a variety of regulatory activities.
Experience/skills required
With a track-record of collaborative working at all levels of an organisation, you’ll bring skills in leading, managing and developing others.
Essential:
• Strong leadership skills demonstrated by successfully leading teams to work in collaboration to achieve objectives.
• Proven working knowledge of Health, Safety & Wellbeing
• The role will require travel from time to time and so a full UK driving licence is required.
Desirable:
• Enthusiasm to achieve results and an ability to coach and mentor others to enhance their abilities and fostering their growth.
• The ability to work with a range of customers and stakeholders, internal or external, to support our goals.
• The skills to both prioritise effectively for your team and with the wider business.
• A flexible approach to work and a capacity to make decisions using available information and evidence.
• Awareness of legislation relevant to permitting, investigating and/or information requests.