Senior Water Compliance Officer

NATURAL RESOURCES WALES; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An environmental regulatory agency in the UK is seeking a Senior Compliance Officer for the Water Compliance Team. The successful candidate will deliver compliance activities, provide expert guidance, and develop data management systems. Strong analytical skills and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI are essential. This role offers a mix of office-based and flexible working options, along with comprehensive employee benefits.

Benefits

Civil Service Pension Scheme

28 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing benefits

Commitment to professional development

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in the use of computer systems and digital tools.
• Experience in data transformation and visualisation software like Power BI.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot digital processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain existing tools using NRW systems.
• Lead technical advice to customers, ensuring sound technical judgement.
• Produce technical reports analysing datasets.

Skills

Computer systems expertise

Data transformation and visualisation

Troubleshooting digital processes

Analytical skills

Effective communication

Knowledge of Water legislation

Tools

Power BI

Job description

The role

Join Us as a Senior Compliance Officer in the Water Compliance Team!

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering compliance activities across Wales and supporting the regulation of the water industry at a national level.

We're looking for an experienced and motivated professional to join our Water Compliance Team as a Senior Compliance Officer within the Operations Directorate.

This important role sits at the heart of our efforts to ensure environmental standards are met, and our shared objectives for the environment and wellbeing objectives are delivered.

As a Senior Compliance Officer you will act as a technical data lead for the team, you will provide expert advice and guidance to colleagues and partners. You'll help shape and improve our IT systems, develop innovative ways of producing and managing data for compliance activities, and ensure that these systems are efficient, accessible, and fit for purpose.

You’ll play a key part in delivering complex water compliance work, including compliance assessments, environmental performance evaluations.

Working closely with the Team Leader and colleagues across the organisation, you’ll help ensure the effective delivery of our compliance responsibilities as part of our wider Water Programme.

If you’re looking for a rewarding role that combines technical expertise with meaningful environmental impact, we’d love to hear from you.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to an NRW office within Wales and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Holly Sisley [e-mail]

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain existing tools using NRW systems as well as data transformation and visualisation software, such as PowerBi, to ensure that data is accurate and can be used for successful compliance assessment.
• Lead and co-ordinate specialist, monitoring and technical advice to internal and external customers, from a range of source; ensure that decisions are based on sound technical judgement, in line with current legislation and best practice.
• Ensure that where NRW's monitoring data used for compliance, it is collected and stored to the quality standards prescribed by European and UK legislation and by NRW policy.
• Identify and produce technical reports analysing and interpreting national and local datasets for operational work, national policy decisions, public enquiries, court appeals etc.
• Represent NRW in discussions with partner organisations.
• Where non-compliance is identified, determine and implement the most appropriate intervention option. Including taking the appropriate actions to collect evidence for enforcement purposes, in accordance with defined procedures.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post.

• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy , together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post.
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.

• Demonstrated expertise in the use of computer systems and digital tools, with the ability to identify and implement effective workarounds to extract, analyse, and present data from internal systems.
• Experience in the use of data transformation and visualisation software, such as Power BI.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and adapt digital processes, applying innovative solutions to overcome system limitations and improve data accessibility.
• You will have analytical skills enabling you to analyse and interpret a wide range of complex information.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders and the public, explaining issues and gaining support by influencing.
• Good knowledge and experience of Water legislation, regulatory and enforcement processes.
• Experience of project development and management (desirable).

Welsh Language level requirements

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Benefits

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

• See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.

Please keep reading

We’re passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under‑represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme)
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
• generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
• commitment to professional development
• health and wellbeing benefits and support
• weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose