The role
Are you passionate about protecting our marine environment and keen to start or grow your career in environmental science? We’re looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Marine Environmental Assessment Officer to support the delivery of our marine monitoring programme across North Wales.
In this hands-on and varied role, you’ll help deliver Natural Resources Wales’ marine monitoring programme, which is vital to meeting our legal responsibilities under the Water Environment Regulations. You’ll get involved in planning and carrying out a wide range of coastal and estuarine field surveys—covering everything from water quality and fish monitoring to intertidal habitats like saltmarshes and seagrass beds.
You’ll also play a key part in managing the valuable data we collect: supporting data collation, entry, analysis and storage, while ensuring equipment is well maintained and ready for use in the field.
Working as part of a friendly, multidisciplinary team of 20 marine professionals, you’ll be based in North Wales but may also have the opportunity to support surveys in other areas. You’ll be contributing directly to the protection and understanding of Wales’ unique marine ecosystems—and building skills and experience in a supportive, high-impact environment.
This is an ideal role if you enjoy both practical outdoor work and data handling, are highly organised, and want to make a meaningful difference to our coastal and marine environments.
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.
To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Lucie Haines lucie.haines@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk
Interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams on 29/09/2025.
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.
About us
The role sits within the Marine Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting Team, within the Operations Directorate. We carry out the practical aspects of Marine Monitoring. One of our team's priorities at an organisational level is to deliver our statutory duties in terms of monitoring and reporting against the Water Environment Regulations, 2017, and this role will support and facilitate the delivery of those statutory requirements.
What you will do
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to help deliver NRW’s marine monitoring programme.
- Assist in field work.
- Undertake collation, input and analysis of monitoring data.
- Maintain specialist sampling equipment.
- Support responses to data requests
- Contribute to a positive health, safety and well-being culture.
- 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).
- Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.
- Required to take part in incident response activities
Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills
Applications to this role will be assessed based on the following criteria both at shortlisting and interview. In your job application please demonstrate, using the STAR method, how you meet the requirements outlined below.
- Ability to demonstrate a good level of relevant technical knowledge gained through prior experience and/ or study to the equivalent of Level 4 of the Credit & Qualifications Framework for Wales (can be equated to the 1st year of an undergraduate degree).
- Previous experience in an environmental monitoring or survey, (preferably marine) type role.
- Strong and effective self-management and organisational skills.
- Ability to work well as part of a team.
- A current full UK valid licence to drive NRW fleet vehicles (cars and vans).
- IT competencies; MS Office and database experience
Welsh Language Level requirements:
- Desirable: Level A1 - Entry level (able to use and understand simple, basic phrases and greetings, no conversational Welsh)
Please note if you do not meet the level 1 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.
Please keep reading
We’re passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We are committed to equal opportunities and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.
We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.
We are a bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.
You are welcome to apply for any vacancy in Welsh or English and any application submitted will be treated equally. Applications are welcome from individuals who work part time, as part of a job share or who work full time.
