People and Inclusion Advisor
Employer: Environment Agency
Location: As a national role the office location is flexible. Flexible hours are available. Travel is required with occasional overnight stays.
Temporary: Up to November 2027
Working hours: Full Time, Part Time/Job Share
Salary: £43,198 Pro-rata
Closing date: 11/01/2026, 23:55 hours
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At the Environment Agency we aspire for inclusivity to thrive in our workforce. We embrace equal opportunities and flexible work arrangements, ensuring everyone can contribute and succeed.
We are recruiting a Grade 5 Advisor to lead the development of organisational know-how capabilities and support the integration of professions relevant to all staff. This versatile role sits within the Leadership and Capability team and contributes to the delivery of EA2030 and the People Strategy. It requires agility, strategic thinking, and the ability to work across boundaries to shape foundational capabilities that support workforce resilience/adaptability in a changing organisational landscape.
What you’ll do:
• Lead the development of organisational know-how capabilities that underpin effective performance across all roles.
• Collaborate on capability writing guidance, templates, and tagging for digital platforms.
• Engage stakeholders to identify where professions intersect with organisational knowledge and apply to all staff.
• Define a tipping point to determine when a capability should transition to the technical and professional skills.
• Support the mapping of professions by articulating their relevance to the wider workforce and identifying cross cutting capabilities.
• Contribute to audit readiness, reporting, and continuous improvement of capability development processes.
• Operate flexibly across the team, adapting to shifting priorities and supporting project-based delivery.
• Maintain awareness of emerging organisational needs and ensure capability frameworks evolve accordingly.
This is a delivery focused role requiring strong analytical skills, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to work flexibly across the team to achieve organisational outcomes. Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You'll be asked 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 will be available to support you with your incident role.The team
People and Inclusion is a delivery focused team within Strategy Transformation and Assurance, delivering effective services for our customers and people to enable more sustainable EA2030 outcomes.
This role is within the Leadership and Capability team focused on delivering the People Strategy (see attached information), in particular the objective ‘investing in your capability and growth’. The role will be aligned to the work stream of Professions and Technical Skills.Experience/skills required
Essential
• Experience in Organisational Development, capability frameworks, with an inclusive and systems-thinking approach.
• A strong track record of collaborating across boundaries and influencing senior stakeholders.
• A proactive, people-focused mindset: you enjoy helping others grow.
• An ability to analyse complex information to deliver strategic outcomes whilst adapting to change.
• The ability to quality assure, design and deliver strategic, user-centred solutions that drive impact.
• Project Management skills and experience - planning and delivering work packages with others to quality, time and budget.
• Building effective relationships with a diverse range of internal and external partners.
• Independent problem solving and effective decision making, with the ability to self-start and lead others.
Desirable
• Familiarity with government professions frameworks and standards.Contact and additional information
As a national role the office location is flexible. Flexible hours are available.
Everyone starting in a new role will be welcomed into the team and given all the training/support needed. As part of your comprehensive induction, you'll be provided with all the equipment required for your role.
Please read the candidate pack for more information about working for us, our employee benefits and how to apply.
Interviews are expected to be held w/c 26/01/2026, via MS Teams.
Travel is required with occasional overnight stays.
If you consent to be recruited onto a reserve list, we’ll hold your details for 6 months, and we may offer you an alternative post.Length of contract
Up to November 2027
Competence 1
Focuses on Efficiency, Innovation and Quality
Description
If a large number of applications are received, we will sift using the this competency.
Description: Identifies and seizes opportunities to create, introduce and implement new or improved methods, processes, without compromising quality or accuracy.
Question: Share an example of when you improved a process or system to enhance delivery.
• What prompted the change?
• What steps did you take to implement it?
• How did you ensure quality was maintained?Competence 2
Achieves Results
Description
Description: Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets. Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results
Question: Describe a time when you had to deliver multiple high-priority tasks under pressure.
• How did you prioritise and organise your work?
• What actions did you take to ensure quality and timeliness?
• What was the outcome?Competence 3
Builds and Sustains Relationships
Description
Description: Develops and maintains effective working relationships
Question: Tell us about a time when you worked with a diverse group of stakeholders to deliver a shared outcome.
• How did you build trust and manage differing views?
• What communication or collaboration strategies did you use?
• What was the result?Competence 4
Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
Description
Description: Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.
Question: Give an example of a time when you had to make a decision based on conflicting or incomplete information.
• How did you analyse the situation?
• What alternatives did you consider?
• What was the outcome and what did you learn?
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