Environment Advisor

Public Sector Resourcing (PSR); Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits fund

Job summary

HS2 Ltd is seeking an Environment Advisor to support the Head of Environment Route-wide. The role involves managing environmental projects, preparing management information and secretariate duties at senior management and stakeholder meetings.

You will work across Birmingham/London with 60% in-office presence, contributing to environmental reporting dashboards and strategic environmental decisions. A strong emphasis on EDI and compliant practices is required.

Qualifications

• Ability to analyse complex information and support decision making.
• Understanding environmental legislation relevant to large infrastructure projects.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams on major programmes is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Secretariate duties to support the Head of Environment Route-wide at senior internal and external meetings.
• Preparation of management information and presentation material.
• Development of environmental reporting dashboards for business reporting and external meetings.
• Lead on environmental projects as directed by the Head of Environment Route-wide.
• Promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion in all work.

Skills

Problem solving

Decision making

Technical capability

Communication skills

Organisation skills

Education

Professional membership

Job description

Environment Advisor

Job Description

Birmingham / London, United Kingdom – 60% p/week in office.

Salary : Base salary: up to £37,700 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

Job Purpose

The job of Environment Advisor is to support the Head of Environment Route-wide in discharging their duties. The role specifically supports through managing special environmental projects, preparing management information, presentation material and undertaking secretariate duties at senior management/stakeholder meeting.

Key Responsibilities

• Secretariate duties to support the Head of Environment Route-wide at both senior internal and external meetings
• Manipulation and preparation of environment management information for use in correspondence and presentations
• Preparation of presentation material and environmental reporting dashboards required for business reporting and external meetings
• Lead on specific environmental projects as directed by the Head of Environment Route-wide to facilitate the support TSDD provides to Delivery Units
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You

Skills

• Problem solving: ability to identify complex problems, review, analyse and interpret a wide range of information and evaluate options with support.
• Decision making: ability to gather and synthesise information and, with support, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason with a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to support decision making.
• Technical capability: appreciation of the full range of environmental technical specialism's deployed across project, and work with these to provide information that supports decision making.
• Communication skills: ability to communicate and convey discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues
• Communication skills: confidence in speaking with senior managers or groups across HS2 to obtain information and/or convey issues or problems
• Communication skills: ability to collate and present complex technical data in clear and concise manner
• Organisation skills: excellent time management skills with the ability to manage multiple competing tasks to time and quality.

Knowledge

• Awareness of the HS2 Project
• Awareness of HS2 Act and appreciation of wider environmental legislation relevant to the Project
• Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary engineering and environmental teams on large complex major projects/ programmes within a complex infrastructure programme - desirable.
• Experience of working within a fast paced environment where there are competing project, engineering and environmental demands that have cost and schedule implications – desirable.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

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About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.