31808 - External Affairs Officer
| Posting date: | 05 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33,000 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 September 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 31808 |
Summary
The team
You'll join our E&B External Affairs team. We lead on advising and influencing our directorate on building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and organisations; strengthening our voice and influence so that our work is better known, trusted, and has greater impact.
We use evidence, expertise, engagement, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
In E&B we promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture where everyone feels valued.
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate that you:
- have a positive, proactive, and hard-working attitude
- have experience of developing, delivering, and evaluating communication and engagement plans
- can advise and influence others on building and maintaining stakeholder relationships (desirable)
- are highly organised, flexible, and able to deliver quickly in a fast-paced environment
- have strong communication skills and work well in a diverse, dispersed team
- have experience of engaging and communicating with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- have strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- can work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.
The Environment Agency is fully committed to having an inclusive workforce that reflects 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.
Are you looking to develop a career in external affairs? Do you have strong communication and organisational skills?
Our External Affairs team is transforming the way Environment and Business (E&B) engages across the Directorate, the wider organisation, and with external stakeholders, government, partners, and the media. The E&B Directorate supports the Environment Agency’s (EA’s) vision by developing better ways to deliver environmental outcomes and improvements. Using evidence and innovation, our expert teams secure resources, influence policy and legislation, and enhance delivery for a better environment.
As an External Affairs Officer, you will co-ordinate and evaluate the team’s work while leading your own strategic communications and engagement projects. You will be adaptable, supporting our leadership’s priorities across the breadth of E&B’s work.
With strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, the ability to work under pressure, and the confidence to engage with people at all levels, you will help promote the work of the Environment Agency to a wide range of audiences, including the public, key stakeholders, and government.
You'll join our E&B External Affairs team. We lead on advising and influencing our directorate on building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and organisations; strengthening our voice and influence so that our work is better known, trusted, and has greater impact.
We use evidence, expertise, engagement, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
In E&B we promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture where everyone feels valued.
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate that you:
- have a positive, proactive, and hard-working attitude
- have experience of developing, delivering, and evaluating communication and engagement plans
- can advise and influence others on building and maintaining stakeholder relationships (desirable)
- are highly organised, flexible, and able to deliver quickly in a fast-paced environment
- have strong communication skills and work well in a diverse, dispersed team
- have experience of engaging and communicating with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- have strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- can work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.
The Environment Agency is fully committed to having an inclusive workforce that reflects 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.
Are you looking to develop a career in external affairs? Do you have strong communication and organisational skills?
Our External Affairs team is transforming the way Environment and Business (E&B) engages across the Directorate, the wider organisation, and with external stakeholders, government, partners, and the media. The E&B Directorate supports the Environment Agency’s (EA’s) vision by developing better ways to deliver environmental outcomes and improvements. Using evidence and innovation, our expert teams secure resources, influence policy and legislation, and enhance delivery for a better environment.
As an External Affairs Officer, you will co-ordinate and evaluate the team’s work while leading your own strategic communications and engagement projects. You will be adaptable, supporting our leadership’s priorities across the breadth of E&B’s work.
With strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, the ability to work under pressure, and the confidence to engage with people at all levels, you will help promote the work of the Environment Agency to a wide range of audiences, including the public, key stakeholders, and government.