Senior Strategic Environmental Policy Specialist

Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru; Aberystwyth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental organization based in Aberystwyth seeks a professional to develop and manage policies for the sustainable management of natural resources. Responsibilities include providing strategic advice to the government and acting as the primary contact for environmental governance. The role involves collaboration across teams in a hybrid work setting and occasional travel throughout Wales and the UK.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a new program of policy supporting sustainable management of natural resources.
• Provide strategic environmental policy advice within NRW and to Welsh and UK Government.
• Act as senior specialist advisor for Natural Resource Management Service.
• Serve as primary contact with the Office of Environmental Governance for Wales.
• Manage strategic external relationships.
• Engage with colleagues in a hybrid work setting across Wales.
• Travel to NRW and other offices in Wales and occasionally elsewhere in the UK.

Job description

Responsibilities

• You will develop and manage a new, cross‑cutting programme of policy and advice that supports the sustainable management of natural resource (SMNR) as part of NRW's Natural Resource Management Service. The programme is intended to encourage integration of nature, climate and people across NRW's work and covers a range of policy areas including: climate change, biodiversity, SMNR, wellbeing, access to and enjoyment of nature and the outdoors, environmental assessment, land use planning, landscape and energy.
• You will provide strategic environmental policy advice within NRW and to Welsh and UK Government.
• You will act as senior specialist advisor for the Natural Resource Management Service on a range of collaborative work areas with other Services in NRW, for example on sustainable finance.
• You will act as our primary point of contact with the new Office of Environmental Governance for Wales supporting effective environmental governance for Wales. You will also manage a range of other strategic external relationships.
• The post is part of the Natural Resource Management Policy Department, and reports to the Manager of the Integrated Approaches for Nature Climate, and People. The Department also includes three further Groups focussed on strategic environmental advice on the three ecosystems – land, water and marine.
• We are a dispersed set of colleagues, based across Wales, working in a hybrid manner in a range of offices and at home. We come together on line and in person to deliver work and to develop our working relationships.
• The post will require travel to NRW and other offices in Wales and from time to time, elsewhere in the UK.