Senior Officer People and Places - Fisheries

Senior Officer People and Places - Fisheries

Role ID: 200551

Location: Flexible in Mid Wales

Grade/Salary range: 06: £42,662 - £46,662

Working pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: 12/08/2026

The role

We have an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys collaboration, strategic influence and delivering tangible benefits for people and places to join us as a Senior People and Places officer.

This Senior Officer (Fisheries) role sits within the Mid Wales People and Places Team, covering Powys and Ceredigion, an area rich in opportunity and complexity. Mid Wales spans dispersed rural communities and market towns, extensive river catchments, and high-quality bathing waters. Its distinctive upland and coastal landscapes are shaped by forestry and land management and include nationally important habitats and designated sites. The area also contains large, sensitive river catchments and communities increasingly vulnerable to flooding and climate related pressures.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering fisheries and catchment priorities across Mid Wales. You will represent place interests in major programmes and partnerships, such as the Severn–Thames Transfer and the Upper Severn Catchment Partnership, providing technical input and ensuring that environmental and regulatory priorities are effectively reflected.

As a fisheries specialist, you will advise on Developments of National Significance, environmental permits, and planning applications, working collaboratively with colleagues to improve consistency and develop smarter, more efficient ways of working.

You will build and sustain strong partnerships as a key point of contact for strategic projects, catchment partnerships, and Rivers Trusts, supporting coordinated delivery of shared priorities. Working across teams, you will help align projects, manage risks and liabilities.

As a Senior Officer, you will translate complex evidence and policy into clear, accessible information, supporting effective decision making across a wide range of audiences, and provide project and programme management support for initiatives such as the Sustainable Fisheries Programme, coordinating delivery across teams and partners to achieve shared objectives and maximise benefits for people and nature.

Leading on fisheries for Mid Wales, you will actively seek opportunities to apply the principles of Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (SMNR) and support the delivery of the Mid Wales Area Statement, helping to deliver integrated, place based solutions that strengthen the resilience of communities and natural resources.

Driving is essential to this role as there is travel required across Mid Wales sometimes to remote locations with no public transport access. You must hold a full and current UK driving license.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the NRW office at the above location and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

Interviews will be face to face in Welshpool on 02/09/2026.

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

What you will do

• Lead for Mid-Wales on fisheries, providing technical expertise and advice to the team and Head of Place, including developments of national significance, environmental permit applications, including abstraction and impoundment licences, Flood Risk Activity Permits, and fish pass approvals.
• Mentor others in the team to broaden their understanding of your specialism so the team develops a multidisciplinary understanding of environmental issues.
• Work with the team to develop innovative solutions to environmental issues, integrating multiple aspects of planning within the place. Identify gaps in the evidence base and work with National Operations & Strategy, Policy and Evidence to prioritise and commission research.
• Facilitate join-up of PSB objectives with Area Statements and the place plan, working across boundaries as appropriate.
• Work co-productively with teams in the place and external stakeholders providing technical fisheries expertise to influence and develop priorities, projects and plans for delivery by others including through outward funding.
• Develop and monitor the programme of outward funded projects across all funding opportunities.
• Work with teams in the place to develop their skills in partnership working.
• Work with stakeholders and partners to influence and develop priorities, objectives, plans and projects within the place
• Network with other People & Places teams across Wales providing an agreed service level of technical knowledge and input to other teams.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy , together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Required to take part in incident response activities. 
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Welsh Language level requirements 

Essential: Level A1 - Entry level 

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Additional Information

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.