31186 - Waste Regulation (Producer Responsibility) Advisor
| Posting date: | 13 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £41,617 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 June 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 31186 |
Summary
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.
This is an opportunity to use your analytical skills to clean up our environment and drive forward the circular economy goals, through a brand new Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for plastic bottles and cans. Introduction of the DRS is a big leap forward in ending the throwaway society and cleaning up Britain.
You will lead on using data analytics to support the implementation and development of the DRS regime. Your work will help ensure that data collected through the scheme is robust, accurate, and used effectively to assess fraud risk, monitor compliance, and drive policy decisions.
By harnessing data, you can help streamline collection, reduce waste, and supercharge the circular economy, turning discarded items into valuable resources.
You’ll collaborate with colleagues across the Environment Agency, Defra, the devolved administrations, and industry stakeholders to turn policy into operational systems. By identifying patterns and analysing trends, you’ll directly contribute to ensuring the scheme functions as intended.
You’ll analyse data to develop dashboards, reports, and models to support the enforcement and monitoring of the scheme. This will involve:
- Collaborating with policy, digital, and regulatory teams to shape the DRS digital infrastructure and ensure data quality.
- Providing expert analytical insight to inform decision-making across the Environment Agency and with government partners.
- Helping define and improve data governance and reporting standards for the scheme.
You will be expected to develop a solid understanding of the DRS regime, with the opportunity to explore other producer responsibility regimes available.
The team
In E&B we promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture where everyone feels valued. We use evidence, expertise, engagement, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
You’ll join our Producer Responsibility Team. We lead on reforming waste regulations to ensure the governments ambitions to conserve resources by minimising waste are delivered.
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate your:
- Ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
- Outstanding data and information management, with sound attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, conveying data and information into plain English to negotiate outcomes and influence those you work with.
- Skills at building trust and respectful working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Experience in the following is also highly desirable:
- The use of R or Python programming languages (or similar) for data analysis.
- Working in agile environments with digital systems.
You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.
This is an opportunity to use your analytical skills to clean up our environment and drive forward the circular economy goals, through a brand new Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for plastic bottles and cans. Introduction of the DRS is a big leap forward in ending the throwaway society and cleaning up Britain.
You will lead on using data analytics to support the implementation and development of the DRS regime. Your work will help ensure that data collected through the scheme is robust, accurate, and used effectively to assess fraud risk, monitor compliance, and drive policy decisions.
By harnessing data, you can help streamline collection, reduce waste, and supercharge the circular economy, turning discarded items into valuable resources.
You’ll collaborate with colleagues across the Environment Agency, Defra, the devolved administrations, and industry stakeholders to turn policy into operational systems. By identifying patterns and analysing trends, you’ll directly contribute to ensuring the scheme functions as intended.
You’ll analyse data to develop dashboards, reports, and models to support the enforcement and monitoring of the scheme. This will involve:
- Collaborating with policy, digital, and regulatory teams to shape the DRS digital infrastructure and ensure data quality.
- Providing expert analytical insight to inform decision-making across the Environment Agency and with government partners.
- Helping define and improve data governance and reporting standards for the scheme.
You will be expected to develop a solid understanding of the DRS regime, with the opportunity to explore other producer responsibility regimes available.
The team
In E&B we promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture where everyone feels valued. We use evidence, expertise, engagement, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
You’ll join our Producer Responsibility Team. We lead on reforming waste regulations to ensure the governments ambitions to conserve resources by minimising waste are delivered.
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate your:
- Ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
- Outstanding data and information management, with sound attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, conveying data and information into plain English to negotiate outcomes and influence those you work with.
- Skills at building trust and respectful working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Experience in the following is also highly desirable:
- The use of R or Python programming languages (or similar) for data analysis.
- Working in agile environments with digital systems.
You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.