Specialist Advisor Environmental Reporting

What You Will Do

• Analyse, manipulate, interpret and report complex environmental data from a range of sources to deliver NRW's statutory and agreed non-statutory national and international reporting obligations, ensuring they contribute to corporate objectives and the sustainable management of natural resources.
• Lead and project manage complex reporting tasks, working across the business and across a broad range of environmental themes including nature conservation, water, industry and waste.
• Act as a specialist lead for reporting, providing expert advice and guidance to staff across the business.
• Lead on the development of new and innovative approaches to drive forward efficiency and improvements to the reporting service.
• Interact with and influence a range of government, agency and partner bodies working on complex and strategic environmental reporting projects at Wales and UK levels.
• Participate in, and chair as appropriate, groups established to ensure the effective governance of environmental reporting within NRW.
• Mentor colleagues in your team.
• 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.

• A professional specialist educated to degree level in a technical or environmental discipline, or able to prove relevant experience.
• Substantial experience in the fields of data management, analysis and manipulation using appropriate software, including ArcGIS, Excel, R, and FME.
• Experience in managing technical projects.
• Experience of working at the national level on projects and work programmes relating to environmental management and reporting.
• Good inter-personal skills and be confident a communicator with the ability to communicate complex data and statistics effectively using a range of techniques including tables, graphs and maps.
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to extract key information and present this in a clear and concise manner to a range of audiences.

Welsh Language level requirements

• Essential: Level A1 - Entry level

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.

Additional Information

• 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.
• Natural Resources Wales is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Although we hold a Skilled Worker visa sponsorship licence, it applies only to specific roles that meet both the eligibility criteria and salary requirements set out by the UK Government under the Skilled Worker visa route.

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.