Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

A South Yorkshire flood resilience graduate scheme focused on environmental management, flood risk reduction, community engagement, and infrastructure planning across local authorities and environmental organisations.The Graduate scheme offers you the chance to be involved in meaningful work that helps deliver on building flood resilience for South Yorkshire, gain valuable experience in the workplace and to develop some of the skills, knowledge and experiences that can help you in your future career aspirations.Water doesn’t respect local authority boundaries, and our working practices need to change so we are responding not as individual organisations but as the people best placed to make things better.Across the partner organisations, you’ll gain experience alongside a range of teams who operate to make South Yorkshire more flood resilient. This could be practically, understanding how highways maintenance can impact our flood resilience, to how water is included in assessing planning applications, or how nature based solutions play their part in reducing flooding.For all graduates, the main purpose of the role is to gain experience of the variety of activities involved in responding to flood risk across South Yorkshire and to undertake work in their allocated department to support with the delivery of these activities and services. We will give all graduates the relevant background, the opportunity to work on live problems. And assess flood risk on a catchment basis.Graduates will also undertake learning and development activities relating to various aspects of workplace and careers skills, in order to enhance their own development and support their progress with any variety of future career or education ambitions they may have.These graduate positions are offered to graduates, qualifications will not be limited to engineering or flood relates courses.A chance to understand the breadth of what is involved in driving flood resilience in South Yorkshire, from community engagement to flood defences and nature based solutions.What are we looking for?We are looking for candidates who are passionate and enthusiastic.You don’t need to have firmly made your mind up about a career – that’s the point – never considered a role in flood resilience? This is your chance.We are looking for someone who is organised, self-motivated, and able to work well within a team. What will Connected by Water get out of it?We want to raise awareness of how varied and interesting a career in flood resilience can be. We know you will bring fresh insight and ideas.The practicalities:Up to six placements are being offered as part of the Scheme, hosted by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council on behalf of Connected by Water. Successful applicants will work with the different organisations which are part of Connected by Water (the four local authorities of South Yorkshire, Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency, Mayoral Combined authority, plus work with wider stakeholders).

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