Higher Officer - Marine Major Casework and Evidence

Natural England; Kirkwhelpington; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Natural England in the United Kingdom is seeking an Operational Higher Officer to deliver and support statutory and discretionary advice on major casework and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) with marine and terrestrial elements.

The role supports the Northumbria Area Team and Northern North Seas Team, handling consultations and contributing to conservation advice packages across the Marine Protected Area network.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering statutory advice on major projects.
• Knowledge of marine planning and NSIPs (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Deliver and support Natural England's statutory and discretionary advice on NSIPs with marine and terrestrial elements.

Skills

Marine NSIPs

Job description

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., This is an Operational Higher Officer role delivering and supporting Natural England's statutory and discretionary advice on major casework and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) with combined marine and terrestrial elements. The role holder will understand marine planning, licensing and consenting and NE's role in the NSIP process, and will ideally have experience of working on marine NSIPs. They will provide support to the Northumbria Area Team and Northern North Seas Team responding to statutory and non-statutory consultations. This role will contribute to the production of condition assessment and formal conservation advice packages for our Marine Protected Area (MPA) network.
  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.