Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales
Environment Team Assistant
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The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy and supportive Environment Team, playing an important role in protecting wildlife and the environment across Conwy. Working closely with the Team Leader and Environment Officers, you will provide essential administrative support that helps the team deliver its regulatory and operational responsibilities.
Your work will include coordinating and collating regulatory compliance information, administering incident response rotas, and ensuring pool vehicles are maintained and available when needed. You will also support procurement processes to help ensure the team has the equipment and safety resources required to carry out its work effectively.
The role offers excellent opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge, with support to gain experience in areas such as evidence collation, database administration, and simple permit determination. You will also respond to routine customer enquiries and ensure more complex queries are directed to the appropriate specialist staff.
We are looking for an organised, enthusiastic, and proactive individual who enjoys working as part of a committed team and wants to make a meaningful contribution to environmental protection in Conwy.
Driving is essential for this role as it involves maintaining pool vehicles.
As an organisation, we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the NRW office at the above location and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed upon appointment. Any regular face-to-face meetings or training will be planned in advance.
To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Charlotte Williams at Charlotte.Williams@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk.
Interviews will be face-to-face (details of location will be shared in advance).
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.
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What You Will Do
- Support the integrated delivery of functions by the team and place including collation of complex regulatory compliance and enforcement information, coordination of responses, and administration of incident response rotas.
- Hold or develop a knowledge in processes such as evidence collation, database administration, or simple permit determinations that supports the delivery of work by the team or place.
- Respond to basic customer queries and ensure that more complex queries are recorded and passed on to relevant staff.
- Support and process procurement requests for the team or place to ensure appropriate equipment is available and maintained in line with 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).
- Required to take part in incident response activities.
- 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.
- A good understanding of NRW's regulatory remit.
- Good organisational skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers and partners.
- Able to work well as part of a team.
Welsh Language Level Requirements
Essential: Level B1 - Intermediate level
Welsh language levels
Please note: If you do not meet the Welsh language level requirements for this role, your application will not be shortlisted.
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Benefits
This role will offer a range of benefits, including:
- 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
See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.
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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 a 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.
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