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Environment Agency Hiring for Programme Support Officer – Software and IT Job at Penrith, England Full Time

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We are looking for someone who is keen and enthusiastic with excellent IT and software technical capability, with a particular focus on effective data management using Microsoft Excel, to join our programme management team.

The role sits within flood risk management. No experience in flood risk is required as you will develop in this area as you develop in the role. You will bring your IT and software technical expertise to support delivery of our programmes of work.

Our programmes are complex and held across a number of systems. We need someone capable of bringing multiple sources of data together in one location using advanced Microsoft Excel skills and presenting information effectively to support engagement with a range of audiences including senior managers.

As the Environment Agency migrates to working in an Office 365 environment, you will need to support members of your team, and other teams, in migrating our datasets and ways of working into this new environment.

If you have these technical skills and would like to utilise them in supporting our flood risk management teams then we would like to hear from you.

The team

The post is within Flood Risk Management in Cumbria and Lancashire Area and in the Programme Management team and you will work across a number of teams.

The role will be based at Lutra House, Preston or Ghyll Mount, Penrith.

There is a phased return to EA offices. Initially there will be a hybrid arrangement between office and home working.

Experience/skills required

  • Strong IT skills and working with large amounts of data and extracting information using MS Excel – creating graphs, charts, tables and pivot tables; reviewing large data sets; using vlookup and xlookup, conditional formatting.

  • Summarising, presenting data in the most appropriate format for different users

  • Manipulating, linking different data sets, in particular MS Excel spreadsheets
  • Attention to detail

  • Good verbal and written communication skills

  • Understanding of how to manage data

  • Experience in using other Office 365 software: SharePoint, PowerPoint and Access and geographic information systems would be an advantage

  • You will be keen to further develop and expand your technical skills in the software noted directly above along with new Environment Agency corporate systems

  • You may have a degree in a relevant area such as maths or computer science and/or acquired your expertise through the work you have been involved in
Contact and additional information

To find out more about the role please contact Nikki Beale on 07867 550431 or via email on [email protected] or Adam Walsh on 07747 008490 or via email on [email protected].

(Please contact Nikki 21st July – 5th August; Adam 15th – 19th August).

If invited to interview, part of the assessment will require you to prepare a short presentation based on a dashboard you will create using data contained in spreadsheets. The data and questions will be sent to you one week in advance of the interview. You will be able to prepare this in your own time, forwarding the presentation at least one hour prior to the interview. This will be a relatively straight forward assessment if you have the appropriate MS Excel skills.

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  • Job Title: Environment Agency Hiring for Programme Support Officer – Software and IT Job at Penrith, England