Marine Water Quality Improvement Officer

Marine Water Quality Improvement Officer
Closing Date: 4 June 2025
Location: Flexible
Natural Resources Wales may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date
Team / Directorate: Marine Sustainable Management Team / Operations
Starting salary: £36,246 rising to £39,942 per annum through annual increments being paid each year (pro rata for part time applicants)
Contract type: Permanent
Work pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week (Part time, annualised hours, compressed hours or term time working considered - discussions at interview stage welcome)
Interview date: To be confirmed
Post number: 203893
The role
You will deliver an ambitious work programme to improve marine water quality in Marine Protected Areas and Water Framework Designation waterbodies. This will include practical restoration, land, and habitat management , monitoring and stakeholder engagement work planned across the affected areas.
Working with teams across Wales you will collaborate with other water quality officers in ensuring delivery of the project objectives and targets and in developing objectives and a marine plan for future delivery. You will ensure good governance of the project, including strict adherence to NRW's procurement and wellbeing, health and safety practices.
As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.
To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Lily Pauls at -
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams.
Successful external applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. We aim to make offers of appointment within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.
About us
Natural Resources Wales has been putting in place an exciting new programme of marine work with support from Welsh Government's Water Capital Programme. NRW will deliver a suite of projects focussed on Welsh coasts and seas. In addition, we will be undertaking feasibility and evidence work that will help us to put in place better management for our coasts and seas in the future.
In this role, you will sit within the Marine Sustainable Management Team and work closely with a range of technical specialists in NRW, and partners and stakeholders across Wales.