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Are you passionate about wildlife and looking for your next #greencareer chapter? East Devon District Council are looking for a Nutrient Mitigation Officer to join their team! This exciting new role will help to deliver the Council’s recently awarded £4m Local Nutrient Mitigation Fund programme for the River Axe Special Area of Conservation (SAC) The successful candidate will work in the ecology team to ensure new developments are delivered in accordance with Habitat Regulations requirements and continued work towards the implementation of #naturebasedsolutions Salary: £42,708 - £49,764 per year Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/4iLVYaL

DON'T MISS OUT: Learn how to craft a compelling career narrative to secure your next job... IEMA members can join us on Monday 31st March at 12:00pm - 12:45pm BST to learn how in a landscape where many applicants vie for each position, the differentiator isn’t just skills or experience – it’s how these elements are communicated. Don’t just tell them what you’ve done; tell them why it matters. In this webinar, you will learn how to: -> Master the art of condensing your career journey into a compelling three-minute narrative -> Use strategic case studies to enhance your CV and increase interview opportunities -> Seamlessly integrate key achievements and value propositions to boost your marketability -> Plus much more! This final webinar in this IEMA member-exclusive 'How to' series is hosted by The CV & Interview Advisors / CVIA Careers / DCS Executive – career experts with over 20 years of experience and featured in Authority Magazine, BBC, The Telegraph, and The Guardian. Book now: https://bit.ly/4in49dp

GREEN JOB PROFILE: How a Waste Manager is crucial for the #environment and #sustainability... Waste Managers are sustainability professionals who coordinate and ensure legal compliance of #recycling and #wasteservices and contracts at an organisation. How does this role align to the green agenda? This role is often responsible for developing and implementing #circulareconomy initiatives and activities to reduce waste and deliver cost savings, ensuring that waste is managed in a sustainable and legislatively compliant way. IEMA's #GreenCareersHub unpacks what's needed for a Waste Management role, with content provided by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust including: -> Skills and capabilities -> Transferable skills -> What 'a day in the life' looks like -> Entry routes -> Potential career progression -> Plus live opportunites with Environment Agency, CIPS - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, JBA Consulting and more! Find out more: https://bit.ly/3RdLPaR

DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY: Volume 24 of IEMA's Impact Assessment Outlook Journal is out now! This volume focuses in on 'Delivering proportionality in Impact Assessment' "Environmental Assessment practice remains too often steeped in detail, with reports that are unwieldy and impenetrable. Why does this matter and, if it does, what do we need to do to overcome it?" Guest editor and Head of profession for Environmental Assessment and Consents at WSP, Nick Giesler unpacks the collection of articles in this journal and how they look at several aspects of the issue: the causes, challenges and possible solutions. The journal also looks into how Government leadership is needed to ensure systemic change with standardised methods, national policies and more to overcome inaction in current practices. Download your copy today: https://bit.ly/43s5RFR Authors of the journal: Catherine Anderson Peter Bruce Robert Brydges Josh Fothergill Clare Siemers Ellen Smith Ursula Steventon Angus Walker Jo Wotton WSP Ramboll LDA FOTHERGILL TRAINING & CONSULTING LTD London Borough of Tower Hamlets Waterman Group Infrastructure and Environment Tresor Consulting Broadfield Law LUC

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: On the latest episode of IEMA's #SustainableMatters podcast, we speak with Maria Benjamin, co-founder of Dodgson Wood about farming, what a diversified business can look like and how skills are key for a #sustainablefuture Maria talks with IEMA CEO Sarah Mukherjee MBE about her career journey via art school and film-making to creating a haven in nature for people to unplug and reset. Maria also founded 'The Soap Dairy', creating a natural soap from their own Jersey cows and 'Lake District Tweed', crafting products from their own wool in an ethical and sustainable way. "I went to Woolfest, where there was literally thousands of really skilled knitters, who weren't just picking up balls of wool and thinking 'oh, that's soft, I'll buy it', they wanted to know the provenance, they wanted to know the breed of sheep, you know, the details of it." Tune in now: https://bit.ly/4l2XW88

Lack of focus on "green growth" in the UK Government's Spring Statement “The government campaigned at the 2024 election on a growth ticket, yet key economic analysis suggests that the UK is some way off realising this. “Net zero, nature restoration and the circular economy are all areas in which policy and investment gaps remain and the headlines from the Chancellor's Spring Statement have done very little to address this." - Martin Baxter, Deputy CEO IEMA With the UK Government placing planning reform at the centre of efforts to grow the economy, IEMA questions the lack of focus on #greengrowth... Read IEMA's full response here: https://bit.ly/4iJY0YY #DowningStreet #SpringStatement #ClimateChange #GreenCareers #GreenSkills #Sustainability #Environment #NetZero #CircularEconomy #Economy

"After years of pushing a carthorse uphill and making the case for a sustainable future, with success coming only in the last few years, are we rolling back down again?" IEMA CEO Sarah Mukherjee MBE writes for Business Green on how, in the rush to persuade policy-makers, we have not made a strong enough case to the public for building a #netzero carbon economy which everyone will benefit from... "Organisations are reported as abandoning environmental and DEI initiatives ... it's high time we were vocal about a green economy that includes everyone." Read now: https://bit.ly/3DEE0b2

Is England's Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) failing to deliver what's required? IEMA members and other expert stakeholders were joined by the Environmental Audit Committee Chair, Toby Perkins MP for a roundtable discussion yesterday focused on a review and revision of the EIP. A revised EIP will be published this summer and IEMA has been feeding into this through an advisory board that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs established last year. IEMA's Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Ben Goodwin reflects on some of the key talking points including: -> Nature friendly farming -> How the EIP can be a vehicle that can join the nature agenda with the government’s growth aspirations -> The joining up of national goals with local efforts on nature recovery -> Greater clarity on monitoring and measuring EIP goal delivery -> Plus more "On the workforce point, we maintain that the Government should establish a permanent cross-government body that takes a strategic approach to delivering #greenskills and jobs growth in the economy that is tied to our long-term climate and environmental goals." Read more: https://bit.ly/4c2EAvU #GreenJobsPlan #EnvironmentalImprovementPlan #EIP

Don't miss our upcoming webinar on the latest developments in environmental law * POSTPONED TO TUESDAY 13th MAY | 12:30pm - 1:30pm BST * We'll be joined by IEMA Fellow and ESG Lawyer Simon Colvin and Environmental Solicitor Nicholas Barker from Weightmans, who will be discussing the changes that #sustainability and #environmental professionals need to be aware of, including: -> The Government driving the transition to a clean power system -> Changes to the planning system to speed up development consent decision-making -> A pro-growth agenda -> Plus more Book your place to find out what you need to prepare for and the potential implications for your organisation: https://bit.ly/4hKzcyF