Catchment to Coast Advisor - Bathing Water and Shellfish

Job Description

Catchment to Coast Advisor – Bathing Water to Shellfish
Circa £49,163 dependent on skills & experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time
Suffolk / Essex

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!

The Catchment to Coast Advisor has a key role in supporting tourism and shellfish related economic growth. As a specialist in Water Recycling Public Health Risk Management, the post holder will work within the Catchment to Coast team to enhance Anglian Water’s coastal and inland water quality for both bathing and shell fisheries. They will work with relevant Catchment Advisors to ensure a source-to-sea approach to delivering our business priorities, consistent with our Purpose to bring environmental and social prosperity to our region.

Key responsibilities

• Support delivery of coastal water environmental and investment obligations, including the management of third-party contractors and providing support to Asset Delivery Planning teams to ensure that capital solutions are sufficient to meet regulatory and business needs.

• Investigate water quality failures at a bathing water and shellfish beds to establish the sources of bacteriological loading, utilising the catchment based approach.

• Creating and delivering compliance action plans to address environmental performance risks identified by the impact assessment work, and compiling management information to make capital investment recommendations to governance and assurance committees.

• Lead on focused project work with contractors, external technical experts, the Environment Agency and other stakeholders to devise investigation programmes to establish the root cause of bacterial pollution at bathing and shellfish coastal waters, including new and emerging areas of science such as nutrient loading risk.

• Support with the development of the bathing and shellfish water public health risk management strategy.

• Act as a point of contact for regulators at a regional level with regards to public health risk for bathing and shellfish waters.

• Representing Anglian Water at external meetings with senior regulators and other senior stakeholders such as local government leaders, MPs etc

• Play a leading role in the Anglian Water in solution development, appraisal, challenge and preferred option for proposed capital schemes of coastal assets.

• Work with other business streams and enabling functions to work collaboratively towards common and aligned goals.

• Provide specialist technical expertise and own the development of the bathing and shellfish waters future Water Industry business plans including engagement with the Environment Agency.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Private healthcare for your peace of mind
• An annual bonus scheme
• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
• 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• Degree Educated

• Experience of successful collaborative working

• Programme and project management experience

• Specialist knowledge of Water Recycling operations and their public health risk

• An understanding of Bathing Water and Shellfish Water Regulations

• An understanding of coastal hydraulics and marine modelling

• Experience of successfully representing the organisation externally at a senior level

• Excellent communication and engagement skills

• Ability to facilitate meetings with a variety of stakeholders

• Confident in the delivery and receipt of difficult messages

• Excellent organisational and record keeping skills

• Ability to adapt, challenge and change

• Proactive, with the ability to think strategically

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 11th January 2026

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