Water Catchment Partnership Coordinator

What you’ll be responsible for

1. Identify stakeholders within Dŵr Cymru’s drinking water catchments. Stakeholders include land managers and owners, our regulators, communities, customers, and colleagues
2. Represent Welsh Water on partnership working groups where required
3. Represent Dŵr Cymru at regional and national events to promote our messages and identify potential opportunities for future collaborative working
4. Identify external opportunities for collaborative projects and work with Catchment Project Specialists to progress ideas
5. Manage specific WaterSource projects within your area; promoting best practice by organising education and awareness sessions and signposting to key literature, and promoting innovation
6. Ensure projects are deliver on time and within allocated budget
7. Facilitate post project reviews and ensure lessons learnt from projects are shared and processes refined accordingly
8. Provide intelligence to the Catchment Spatial Risk Analysts to facilitate the maintenance and keep live Dŵr Cymru’s DWSPs
9. Provide local knowledge in event of incidents to support the Catchment Risk Coordinators in the management of incidents
10. Work with the team to identify locations for sampling/ monitoring as part of the NEP investigations data collection and support the collection of data as appropriate
11. Undertake routine catchment inspections or sampling as required
12. Ensure all activities undertaken comply with Dŵr Cymru’s Health, Safety & Wellbeing policies and local team procedures to ensure a safe working environment is maintained.

Who you’ll work with

Internal 

•    Water Services
•    Estates
•    Water Resources
•    Environment Team 
•    Central Asset Strategy 

External 

•    Land owners/ users
•    Farming Organisations/ Unions
•    NRW
•    Local communities 
•    Third sector
•    Local authorities 
•    National Parks
•    Academic Research Institutions 
•    Other leading companies within the water sector 

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Qualified to a minimum of degree level in a relevant subject or 3years experience working in relevant field
• A history of working in the environmental sector with a proven track record of successfully working with environmental or community interest groups, the agricultural sector and environmental regulators    
• A good level of knowledge and understanding of diffuse pollution sources and pathways, agri-environment schemes, water resource protection and the water industry    
• Able to demonstrate good communication skills
• Have the ability to develop positive working relationships and to be seen as a highly credible representative of the business.
• Able to manage projects with a strong focus on problem resolution, multi-tasking and has the tenacity and determination to see through a job to its full conclusion.
• Hold a full UK driving licence with access to own vehicle and ability to travel across Dŵr Cymru’s operating area as job requires.  

Good to know

• This role includes hybrid working. 
• The successful candidate will participate in the catchment standby rota after probation. 

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Many more can be found on our website. 

 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
 
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.