Fisheries Officer

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London, South East

Welwyn Garden City

Alchemy, Bessemer Road, AL7 1HE

Staff Grade 4

Permanent

Full Time

Operational Delivery

£29,706

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Technical Officer to the Fisheries, Biodiversity & Geomorphology Team in our Hertfordshire-North London area.

We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated professionals, with excellent technical and inter-personal skills and a proven track record of managing competing workloads. You will manage and deliver your own workloads as well as working collaboratively with others, both within the team and across the business to provide top quality fisheries advice and guidance. The role is full of variety and will require significant office based and frequent field-based activity.

Our role is to help maintain, improve and develop fisheries, through our work as a regulator, operator, partner & incident responder in a busy and demanding mixed urban and rural environment.
You will engage with a wide range of internal teams and external customers providing technical and operational advice, including Local Authorities, angling clubs, NGOs, Water Companies, contractors and developers. This will include assessing ecological risks and collaboratively delivering benefits for people and wildlife, through our permitting processes, project delivery and advisory role with a strong focus on partnership delivery.

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

You’ll join a team of fisheries specialists within the wider Fisheries, Biodiversity & Geomorphology area team. Our area supports predominantly coarse fish, eel & non migratory salmonid populations across a range of rivers, still waters and chalk streams.

Major challenges include improving fish/eel habitats and passage, restoring urban river and still water habitats and providing an advisory service to a significant angling community.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to integrate across a range of customers and partners

• highly developed negotiation and influencing skills with experience of influencing decision-makers, operators, business and partners
• an innovator who achieves results
• A fisheries background and related qualifications, as well as relevant operational experience
• you are knowledgeable in fisheries and aquatic ecology.
• have extensive field experience
• a strong science and environmental grounding
• a good working knowledge of fisheries and environmental legislation, Government policy and strategy, and best practice relating to freshwater fisheries management; and river and still-water restoration
• expertise in fish identification and the ecological requirements of freshwater fish populations
• experience of fisheries survey and monitoring techniques
• A full driving licence and confidence in driving is essential

We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We warmly welcome applicants from culturally and/or socially diverse backgrounds. We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer and we champion diversity at every opportunity.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Richard Tyner, Team Leader - Fisheries via email - richard.tyner@environment-agency.gov.uk