Hertfordshire North-London

Fisheries Technical Officer

Paul Coulson | November 8th 2024

 

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Fisheries Technical Officer to the Fisheries, Biodiversity & Geomorphology Team in our Hertfordshire North-London area.

Our role is to help maintain, improve and develop fisheries, through our work as a regulator, operator, partner & incident responder in a busy and challenging mixed urban and rural environment.

The role is full of variety with significant office based and field-based activity requiring you to manage and deliver your own workload as well as working with a range of internal teams and external groups to provide top quality fisheries advice and guidance.

You will engage with Local Authorities, angling clubs, NGOs, Water Companies, contractors and developers through our permitting processes, project delivery and advisory role with a strong focus on partnership delivery delivering benefits for people and wildlife,

Responding and manging environmental incidents is a central part of what we do. You will 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 and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you.

The team  

You’ll join a small team of fisheries specialists within the wider Fisheries, Biodiversity & Geomorphology area team.

Major challenges include improving fish/eel habitats and passage, restoring urban river and still water habitats and providing an advisory service to a significant angling community alongside our regulation and legislative duties.

Experience/skills required

We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated professionals, with excellent technical and inter-personal skills and a proven track record ideally within the freshwater fisheries sector. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

  • A fisheries background and related qualifications, as well as relevant operational experience
  • Knowledge of freshwater fisheries and aquatic ecology.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to integrate across a a diversity of customers and partners
  • Proven negotiation and influencing skills with experience of influencing decision-makers, operators, business and partners
  • A full driving licence and confidence in driving & the ability to swim are essential
  • Working knowledge of fisheries and environmental legislation, Government policy and strategy, is desirable
  • Experience of fisheries survey and monitoring techniques is desirable

Further details here