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Fly-tipping Action Wales Officer

Closing date: 15 February 2023 | Salary: £32,876-£36,229 (Grade 5) | Location: Flexible

Contract Type: Fixed Term appointment until 31 March 2025

Work Pattern: Full time, 37 hours, secondments considered

Post Number: 203468

As an organisation we support flexible working. This role allows hybrid working (a mix of home and office working) and a working pattern suitable for you can be discussed on appointment if you are successful.

You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home, of which you will be required to attend for regular meetings, training and for one-to-one meetings with your manager. These will be planned in advance.

Job Description

Fly-tipping Action Wales (FtAW) is a Welsh Government sponsored initiative that aims to eliminate fly-tipping throughout Wales, working collaboratively with over 50 partner organisations.

Our work includes a range of projects that help us better understand the problem, raise awareness, and support partners’ in preventing and enforcing against fly-tipping.

The main focus of this role will be the enforcement areas of our work plan. You will be responsible for taking forward enforcement action in relation to fly-tipping offences occurring on the Welsh Government Woodland Estate (WGWE) that is managed by Natural Resources Wales. You will also offer enforcement and intelligence sharing support to our partners such as Local Authorities as well as helping to deliver various enforcement related areas of work within our work plan.

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about tackling fly-tipping in Wales and who have a keen interest in taking forward enforcement action using a partnership working approach.

Driving Licence required.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

Provide guidance in relation to compliance with environmental and regulatory standards.
Liaise with stakeholders and develop partnerships to deliver initiatives based on placed based requirements.
Take appropriate actions to collect evidence for enforcement purposes, in accordance with defined procedures.
Required to take part in incident response activities

Qualifications, experience and knowledge

Knowledge and experience of the following:

Knowledge and experience of working as a regulator.
Understanding of commercial business processes and pressures.
Ability to communicate effectively with regulated business and the public, explaining issues and gaining support by influencing.

Welsh Language Requirements:

Essential Level 1 – Able to pronounce Welsh and use basic phrases

Please note if you do not meet the level 1 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.

Competencies

Applications to this role will be assessed based on the following competencies, both at shortlisting and interview. Please give examples of how you demonstrate these competencies when completing your application form.

Essential Knowledge and Skills	Expertise gained in a defined area or function, enabling the post holder to provide advice and guidance to others. Demonstrates a sound understanding and appreciation of the work of the wider function. Has good literacy, numeracy and communication skills including well developed customer facing skills. Experience of supervising others is desirable.
Evaluation of Information	Demonstrates the ability to understand information, procedure manuals, statutory codes and legislation and interpret and apply the requirements to undertake their role. Able to analyse and process non-routine technical information, containing a degree of complexity.
Decision Making and Autonomy Requirements	Ability to decide how best to achieve results, requiring some degree of judgment and creativity and the need to alter priorities where there are conflicting demands. Able to solve problems and make decisions of a technical nature; primarily around their own area of work but will also cross over with the work of others. Problems and decisions may contain a degree of complexity and require the need to apply different techniques or methods. Ability to undertake research to determine how best to resolve issues. Able to provide guidance to less experienced members, to resolve problems.
Communication and Relationships with Others	Demonstrates the ability to interact and communicate with people around their area of expertise, across a range of functions within NRW and external parties, adapting their approach and style appropriately. Well established inter-personal and communication skills with the ability to develop and sustain good working relationships, which may involve a degree of influencing.

Benefits of Working for us

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

Agile and Flexible working (role dependent)
Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 26.6% to 30.3%
28 days Annual Leave, rising to 33 days
Generous Leave Entitlements for all your life needs
Health and Wellbeing Benefits and Support
Weekly Well-being Hour to use at your choice

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

How to Apply

Please send a completed Application form to Applications@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

Before completing your application, please read our Guidance on completing a job application form

Application closing date 15 February 2023

Interviews will take place through Microsoft Teams

If you have any queries about the role, please contact Neil Harrison at neil.harrison@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

Natural Resources Wales embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition.

We welcome and encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented, including women, black and ethnic minority groups and people with a disability. We have a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We put the principles of human rights, equality, fairness, dignity and respect at the heart of our values.

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