Overview
Catchment Initiatives Project Officer – Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8DB
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Competitive.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work closely with environmental stakeholders and catchment partnerships to design and deliver innovative catchment and nature-based solutions across multiple river catchments. You’ll play a key part in implementing these solutions to improve river health and sustainability.
What you’ll be doing as a Catchment Initiatives Project Officer
You’ll oversee project work plans, ensuring activities are delivered on time, within budget, and provide meaningful benefits. You will also work closely with the team to meet organisational priorities, track progress, and capture the positive impacts of each project. This role is integral to addressing the pressures on our rivers, driving collaborative actions, and building sustainable partnerships to secure the long-term health of these vital natural resources.
- Support the end-to-end delivery of catchment & nature-based solutions, tracking that all actions are completed according to the agreed scope, timelines and budget. Proactively identifying risks & developing mitigation plans to discuss with the Project Manager; ensuring these are implemented in a timely manner.
- Point of contact for project delivery-related matters, facilitating collaboration and ensuring the successful implementation of projects.
- Maintain a detailed record to track project milestones and provide regular updates on delivery status, risks and successes to wider stakeholders.
- Track the project budget and associated spend, providing regular updates to the Project Manager.
- Regularly review projects to ensure activities adhere to relevant regulations; support with regular H&S checks of suppliers and partners to ensure compliance.
- Work with internal teams to ensure alignment of outputs; clear and consistent communication is important not to disrupt delivery timelines.
Base location: Hybrid – Clearwater Court – RG1 8DB. Salary up to £50,000 per annum dependent on experience.
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
- Proven ability to build and manage productive relationships with diverse stakeholders, preferably environmental groups, councils or regulators.
- Experience organising and facilitating workshops, consultations, and engagement activities to align stakeholders and gather input effectively.
- Strong communication skills, with experience in tailoring messages to a variety of audiences, including technical experts, community groups, and decision-makers.
- Demonstrable experience in planning, delivering, and monitoring environmental or water-related projects, and knowledge of the project lifecycle.
- Experience managing project budgets effectively, ensuring progress is tracked and detailed updates are provided.
- Be fully competent at using the appropriate company IT systems and Office software.
- Be a graduate or have the equivalent in experience, and would consider an HNC or above in a relevant subject.
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
- Experience in working at a catchment scale to develop and implement plans that improve river health, water quality, and catchment resilience is desirable.
- Experience in incorporating Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) into project planning and delivery, ensuring positive outcomes for habitats and species, is desirable.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum, depending on experience.
- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
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Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.
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Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.
If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.
Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.
We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
