35470 - FCRM Mapping and Modelling Strategic Programming Senior Advisor - National

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Our work helps the Environment Agency understand flood and coastal risk, make evidence-based decisions and invest where it will have the greatest benefit for people, places and the environment. Mapping, modelling and evidence are fundamental to flood risk management, and we need robust planning, commissioning and assurance processes to ensure national investment delivers the right outcomes.

As a Programme Advisor, you will play a key role supporting the Head of FCRM Modelling and Mapping and senior colleagues to plan, commission and assure nationally significant modelling related programmes. You will help ensure modelling and related activities are prioritised effectively, deliver value for money and meet the needs of customers and stakeholders across the organisation.

Working closely with technical specialists, programme managers, delivery teams and senior leaders, you will help develop and maintain a coordinated approach to programme planning, governance and assurance. You will be comfortable working across organisational boundaries, managing competing priorities and supporting informed decision-making in a complex environment.

Your role will include:

Supporting the development and maintenance of current and future-year modelling programmes and priorities.

Providing strategic assurance to ensure programmes deliver the required products, outputs and benefits.

Monitoring progress, risks, issues, actions and dependencies across commissioned work.

Supporting the development, monitoring and assurance of service commitments.

Preparing reports, briefings and management information for senior leaders and governance groups.

Monitoring audit actions, assurance activities and improvement plans.

Supporting guidance, tools and services used to manage programme planning.

The team

This role sits within Flood Modelling and Mapping in FCRM Risk Assessment and supports the national planning, commissioning and assurance of flood risk modelling programmes. Working with colleagues across Flood and Coastal Risk Management, alongside operational area teams, you will help ensure modelling investment is prioritised effectively, delivers value for money, and provides the evidence needed to support national flood risk management decisions.