Senior Environmental Coordinator

Thames Water Utilities Limited; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility company in England is seeking a Senior Environmental Coordinator to manage stakeholder relationships and improve river health through partnership schemes. The role offers a salary up to £60,000 and requires strong communication and project management skills, along with experience in environmental planning. This hybrid position based in Reading also includes competitive benefits and a commitment to sustainability.

Benefits

26 days holiday, increasing to 30

Generous Pension Scheme

Performance-related pay plan

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Ability to manage productive relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in organising and facilitating workshops and consultations.
• Strong communication skills tailored for various audiences.
• Experience in developing and implementing plans for river health.
• Familiarity with tools for evaluating water quality challenges.
• Experience in delivering environmental projects.
• Track record of driving projects and overcoming barriers.
• Experience with GIS tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead co-creation of partnership schemes across river catchments.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and support engagement activities.
• Develop catchment needs and identify beneficial solutions.
• Collaborate with internal teams to evaluate catchment opportunities.
• Build relationships with environmental organisations.

Skills

Relationship management

Workshop facilitation

Strong communication

Catchment planning

Environmental project management

GIS experience

Job description

Job title Senior Environmental Coordinator Ref 41910 Division Asset Operations & Capital Delivery Location Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB Contract type Permanent Full/Part-time Full-time Salary Competitive salary up to £60,000 per annum depending on experience Job grade B Closing date 12/12/2025

This role is an exciting opportunity to work closely with environmental stakeholders and catchment partnerships to support the development and delivery of their catchment plans. A key focus of the role is identifying and advancing partnership opportunities that align with Thames Water’s business drivers while contributing to the improvement of river health and the wider water environment.

What you’ll be doing as a Senior Environmental Coordinator

Working alongside a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, you will lead on the co-creation of partnership schemes across multiple river catchments and support their co-design and co-delivery. This is fundamental to ensuring we deliver the right solutions, in the right way, with the right partners.

• Support the management of stakeholder relationships within allocated catchments, ensuring regular engagement through workshops, consultations, and events. Facilitate contributions to relevant statutory consultations.
• Deliver tailored engagement activities to ensure all partners and stakeholders are well-informed, aligned with our plans, and able to contribute positively to catchment and river health improvements.
• Own the development of catchment needs, constraints, and opportunities, enabling the identification of solutions that deliver tangible benefits.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and partners to ensure catchment opportunities are effectively evaluated and prioritised for their potential to improve river health and stakeholder relationships.
• Collaborate with organisations such as the Catchment-Based Approach (CaBA), Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trusts, and other environmental groups to foster long-term opportunities and address barriers to achieving catchment-scale improvements.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders to support integrated and innovative approaches to improving river health and catchment management.

This position will be Hybrid, based at Clearwater Court – Reading. The salary for this position is up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience.

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:

• Proven ability to build and manage productive relationships with diverse stakeholders, preferably environmental groups, councils or regulators.
• Experience organising and facilitating workshops, consultations, and engagement activities to align stakeholders and gather input effectively.
• Strong communication skills, with experience in tailoring messages to a variety of audiences, including technical experts, community groups, and decision-makers.
• Experience in working at a catchment scale to develop and implement plans that improve river health, water quality, and/or catchment resilience.
• Familiarity with tools, data, and frameworks for evaluating and addressing poor water quality and environmental challenges.
• Demonstrable experience in planning, delivering, and monitoring environmental or water-related projects.
• Track record of driving projects forward, overcoming barriers, and ensuring outcomes align with organisational and partnership goals.
• GIS experience.

Extra qualities that would be a great fit for our team:

• Understanding of Natural Capital principles and experience in applying these to identify and deliver environmental enhancements with measurable benefits.
• Understanding of Natural Capital principles and experience in applying these to identify and deliver environmental enhancements with measurable benefits.
• Desirable experience in developing and delivering projects that incorporate natural flood risk management (NFM) solutions, such as wetland creation, river restoration, and woodland planting.
• Desirable knowledge of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) to reduce flood risk and improve water quality.
• Ideally, have membership in a professional body.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process . If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support .

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.