6359 - Environmental Contracted Services Operations Senior Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £37,950 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | UK |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 4 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Natural England |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6359 |
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Join us in shaping a future where nature and people thrive. Whether you're drawn to hands-on conservation or playing a vital part behind the scenes, your work at Natural England will support lasting benefits for the environment and society.
Our Role:
Natural England is the Government’s adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. We do this working through and with others.
Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes. Each of these outcomes reinforces and amplifies the others, and together they address environmental, social and economic actions critical to thriving nature.
· Recovering Nature – Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.
· Building Better Places – Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.
· Improving Health and Wellbeing – Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.
· Delivering Security through Nature – Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.
Find out more about the work of Natural England at Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK
The Environmental Training, Advice and Facilitation Framework (ETAFF) is a flexible procurement tool used by NE and other Defra family bodies to contract in farm and land management advice services from vetted and approved Suppliers. The Environmental Contracted Services (ECS) Team run the operation of the Framework and is comprised of Senior Contract Managers, Contract Managers, and a Claims Team, all supported by an Operations Senior Officer and the Framework Manager. They work closely with the commissioning team’s key staff, Defra Group Commercial (Procurement) and the Suppliers themselves.
Following the procurement process, Mini contracts are awarded to the successful Suppliers which provide free, impartial, targeted advice, training and information to farmers, land managers and their advisers so they are better informed to make business decisions that maximise outcomes for the natural environment. The mini contracts contribute to support the Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) Programme and the uptake of Agri-Environmental Schemes. There is however, growing interest from Natural England and Defra-family bodies to utilise the Framework to procure advice, facilitation & training services covering a wider range of topics. The Operations Senior Officer will play a significant role in working with potential new commissioners to develop these new areas of work.
The current ETAF Framework runs from August 2023 to July 2027 and we are now in the process of designing the next framework which will run directly on from this. The Operations Senior Officer will play a key role in creating and launching the new framework and therefore prior experience of working with a procurement framework is key.
Job description
The Operations Senior Officer will support the management of our Framework Contracts and be a key contact for our own staff and strategic delivery partners including CSF, Defra and potential new commissioners. You will support the Framework Manager in giving sound advice on Framework interpretation and actively promoting take up both within Natural England and other Authorities who may wish to utilise the Framework to procure support for their projects and programmes. You will also support the Framework Contract Management team in delivering best practice, provide technical and operational guidance and ensuring effective governance and framework management, quickly developing excellent relationships internally and externally. You will also play a key role in the design and creation of the new procurement Framework which will be launched in summer 2027, identifying lessons learnt from the current Framework and ensuring the new Framework will meet the changing requirements of existing and potential new commissioners.
Our Role:
Natural England is the Government’s adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. We do this working through and with others.
Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes. Each of these outcomes reinforces and amplifies the others, and together they address environmental, social and economic actions critical to thriving nature.
· Recovering Nature – Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.
· Building Better Places – Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.
· Improving Health and Wellbeing – Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.
· Delivering Security through Nature – Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.
Find out more about the work of Natural England at Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK
The Environmental Training, Advice and Facilitation Framework (ETAFF) is a flexible procurement tool used by NE and other Defra family bodies to contract in farm and land management advice services from vetted and approved Suppliers. The Environmental Contracted Services (ECS) Team run the operation of the Framework and is comprised of Senior Contract Managers, Contract Managers, and a Claims Team, all supported by an Operations Senior Officer and the Framework Manager. They work closely with the commissioning team’s key staff, Defra Group Commercial (Procurement) and the Suppliers themselves.
Following the procurement process, Mini contracts are awarded to the successful Suppliers which provide free, impartial, targeted advice, training and information to farmers, land managers and their advisers so they are better informed to make business decisions that maximise outcomes for the natural environment. The mini contracts contribute to support the Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) Programme and the uptake of Agri-Environmental Schemes. There is however, growing interest from Natural England and Defra-family bodies to utilise the Framework to procure advice, facilitation & training services covering a wider range of topics. The Operations Senior Officer will play a significant role in working with potential new commissioners to develop these new areas of work.
The current ETAF Framework runs from August 2023 to July 2027 and we are now in the process of designing the next framework which will run directly on from this. The Operations Senior Officer will play a key role in creating and launching the new framework and therefore prior experience of working with a procurement framework is key.
Job description
The Operations Senior Officer will support the management of our Framework Contracts and be a key contact for our own staff and strategic delivery partners including CSF, Defra and potential new commissioners. You will support the Framework Manager in giving sound advice on Framework interpretation and actively promoting take up both within Natural England and other Authorities who may wish to utilise the Framework to procure support for their projects and programmes. You will also support the Framework Contract Management team in delivering best practice, provide technical and operational guidance and ensuring effective governance and framework management, quickly developing excellent relationships internally and externally. You will also play a key role in the design and creation of the new procurement Framework which will be launched in summer 2027, identifying lessons learnt from the current Framework and ensuring the new Framework will meet the changing requirements of existing and potential new commissioners.