Job Vacancy – Living with Water Community Coordinator

Hull has the 2^nd highest level of flood risk in the UK outside of London.  The risk is a combination of multiple sources; tidal, fluvial, surface water, sewer and ground water. 

There are many organisations with a role in managing the flood risk.  These organisations have formed the Living with Water Partnership which aims to create a thriving community in Hull and Haltemprice through working together on flood risk management to become an international exemplar for living in harmony with water.

The Living with Water team are currently involved in a £40million programme of investment into the infrastructure for the city. This involves a large amount of community engagement and comms to ensure that communities understand their flood risk and know the simple steps or tools they can use to increase their resilience and adapt to climate- based weather events, such as floods or heatwave.

The purpose of the role would be to work with many of the existing different charities, networks and community groups to co-ordinate the messaging and awareness around Living with Water.  This would ensure there is greater alignment of objectives of engagement and an effective way of engaging using trusted groups already established.

The role would also project manage a small scheme to retrofit water saving devices, such as water butts, rain gardens or planters, on existing community buildings to help educate around the storage and reuse of water.

The role would be required to:

• To work with the Partnership Teams to develop engagement strategies that will deliver the business and partnership objectives of Living with Water programme via multi-channel and multi-audience engagement.
• To support the delivery of the LWW stakeholder engagement and communications strategy across multi-channels and multi-audiences.
• To support on the implementation of the programme/strategy for the duration of the project.
• To work with the stakeholder engagement team to ensure our engagement plan strengthens our relationships in local communities in the build up to our legacy programme.
• To work with internal stakeholders in the partners at all levels to maximise programme value.
• To ensure activity meets LWW objectives and is brand compliant (internally and externally).
• To showcase the benefit LWW brings to local communities, particularly in its offering in Hull and the East Riding.
• To be an ambassador for LWW externally.
• Work with comms manager to budget effectively projects assigned to them as part of the engagement plan to contribute to community events and for the water saving project

Fore more information contact Nikky.Wilson@environment-agency.gov.uk