Senior Strategic Environmental Policy Specialist

NATURAL RESOURCES WALES; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A public environmental agency in the UK seeks a specialist advisor to develop sustainable management policy and provide strategic environmental advice. The role requires collaboration with various services and stakeholders, focusing on climate change and biodiversity management. The position involves travel within the UK and offers a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and managing environmental policy and advice.
• Understanding of sustainable management of natural resources.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across services.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a cross-cutting programme of policy and advice.
• Provide strategic environmental policy advice to governments.
• Act as a primary contact for the Office of Environmental Governance.

Job description

The role

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.

About us

The post in 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.