Location
Central London (Environment Agency West Midlands Area covering Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and West Midlands)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Up to £34,320 per annum

About the Role
The Environment Agency is committed to protecting and enhancing the environment to create a cleaner, safer and healthier world for people and wildlife. Water is central to everything we do, and as a Hydrology Technical Officer, you will play a vital role in monitoring and assessing the water environment to help safeguard this precious resource. You will join a friendly and welcoming team of Hydrologists working across the West Midlands Area, delivering work across multiple counties.

This fixed-term role (to 29/05/2026) offers the opportunity to develop your technical skills and hydrological knowledge while contributing to effective water resource management. You will collate, analyse and interpret hydrological data using best practice techniques, supporting decision making to protect and improve the environment. This early to mid-career position will also allow you to build technical leadership skills and gain practical understanding of rivers and catchments in the area.

You will be mainly office based with occasional fieldwork such as surveys and data collection. Your work will include quality assuring river flow data, producing monthly water situation and hydrological monitoring reports, supporting drought response, managing compensation flow checks, updating rainfall and reservoir data, and assisting with resource assessments for abstraction licensing strategies. You will also respond to customer enquiries and licence applications via the team mailbox.

The role offers a supportive culture that embraces diversity and inclusion, with access to a comprehensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, overtime opportunities, paid environmental outcome days, and flexible working options considered on a case-by-case basis. You will also benefit from structured training, professional development, and potential career progression within hydrology or related technical and management roles.

Experience
- Work experience in an operational water resources hydrology role, typically up to 3 years, or an equivalent hydrology-focused post-graduate qualification.

About you
- Enthusiastic about hydrology with an awareness of hydrological concepts such as processes and catchment behaviour.
- Experience analysing data and solving problems with good numerical and computer literacy.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to convey technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Well organised with the ability to plan, track and deliver work to required timescales and standards.
- A desire to learn and continually develop skills and knowledge.
- Willingness to undertake an incident role, responding to incidents or providing business continuity support as required, with full training and support provided.

Qualifications
- A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant environmental discipline such as Geography, Environmental Science, Ecology, Sustainability, Data Science, Geosciences, Engineering, or Biology.
- Membership of professional bodies such as BHS or CIWEM (or similar) is desirable, with potential to work towards chartership.