# Senior Officer - Marine Infrastructure - ( Ref : 6865 )

**Company**: Natural England
**Location**: Stafford, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 41,550 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Join Natural England in shaping a future where nature and people thrive. As a Senior Officer in the Planning and Infrastructure Team, you will lead strategic work on planning and major infrastructure in the marine environment, influencing policy, guidance, and practice to secure better outcomes for nature whilst supporting sustainable development.

**Our Role** Natural England provides evidence, expertise, and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. Our strategy focuses on four strategic outcomes:

- Recovering Nature

- Building Better Places

- Improving Health and Wellbeing

- Delivering Security through Nature

**The Team** The Planning and Infrastructure Team works across the terrestrial and marine environment to advise Government on national policy issues, provide strategic technical advice, and develop new approaches to planning and infrastructure work.

**Key Tasks/Principal Accountabilities**

- Act as sector lead for a key marine Infrastructure sector(s)

- Provide and co-ordinate technical advice to Defra, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), and other government departments

- Build effective relationships with key infrastructure delivery bodies, developers, and industry groups

- Provide technical infrastructure planning advice to operations teams

- Lead/contribute to technical guidance, standing advice, briefings, and training on infrastructure and planning

- Horizon scan and understand future development proposals and policy changes relevant to the sector

- Progress opportunities to increase the evidence base around environmental impacts associated with the sector(s)

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**

- A relevant degree and/or extensive experience in a related field

- Technical expertise and applied experience of the planning system, legislation, national policy and guidance, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, Marine Licensing and Oil and gas licensing

- Technical expertise and experience of the application of environmental assessment processes to planning casework

- Experience of working with key national external partners and stakeholders

- Understanding of the legislative/policy/strategic context of infrastructure and planning work

**Benefits**

- Flexible working arrangements

- Excellent opportunities for career progression, training, and development

- Generous leave allowance of 25 days per year

- Access to the Civil Service Pension scheme with a 28.97% employer contribution

- Range of benefits such as shopping discounts and a cycle-to-work scheme

## Skills

### Required
- planning system
- legislation
- national policy
- guidance
- Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
- Marine Licensing
- Oil and gas licensing
- environmental assessment processes

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