The Biodiversity and Geomorphology team are looking for an enthusiastic, technical Biodiversity Officer to provide advice, guidance, and technical support within the Greater Manchester, Merseyside & Cheshire area.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual, with proven technical and inter-personal skills, to be part of a friendly and hardworking team. You'll be responsible for covering a wide geographical area, providing high quality biodiversity technical advice.

You will provide input into a range of planning applications and projects. You will help identify, design, and deliver a programme of mitigation and restoration activities in surface waters to deliver measurable environmental outcomes. Your work with operational staff will ensure we prevent or minimise ecological impacts from our own activities and those we regulate.

You will proactively engage staff throughout the EA, communicating with colleagues internally and externally to successfully build trusted networks. We seek to develop and influence partnerships and organisations to help meet the objectives of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and 25 Year Environment Plan.

You will keep up to date on changing legislation and best practice in order to inform internal priorities and direction. We aim to shape the job in a way that builds on your strengths and interests and reflects the developing needs of the business.

You’ll be qualified to degree standard (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline and have the ability and knowledge to:

• Provide guidance to ensure compliance with Environment Agency policy and current legislation.
• Apply influencing skills and knowledge of stakeholder engagement techniques to work with both internal and external teams and partners.
• Provide knowledge of wetland and river conservation and legislation relating to wildlife and designated sites, and an understanding of policies relating to biodiversity.
• Achieve outcomes in line with the objectives of the Water Framework Directive.
• Be a passionate and confident biodiversity champion, understanding it’s importance and being able to communicate this to others.
• Be open to innovative ways of working, especially new opportunities to work with nature.
• Work with internal and external partners to deliver specific outcomes, to time, cost and quality.

This role will require the applicant to have a full UK driving licence and the ability to swim.

The role is office based with some hybrid working. Daytime travel around the GMMC area is required on a frequent basis, with some locations not easily accessible via public transport so a full UK driving licence is essential.

For further details please contact [email protected].

Interviews are likely to take place, in person, mid-February 2026.

Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties when the need to respond arises, having an incident role is an essential part of working for the Environment Agency and is an active way to support communities and prevent harm to the environment. Further information on incident response can be found within your candidate pack.