The Environment Agency is driving improvements in air quality, supporting Defra’s Clean Air Strategy and the 2021 Environment Act. We are recruiting a Senior Advisor to lead our regulatory air quality activities, including: • Leading our Air Quality team, focused on emissions from our regulated industry sectors; working with individual sectors on emissions reductions approaches. • Providing technical advice to Defra in the development of new air quality policy. • Working with partner bodies and other regulators to devise common solutions to emissions management and impacts assessment; representing the Environment Agency on air quality issues with external groups. • Supporting the shaping of future international legislation, e.g. through UK Best Available Techniques, the Defra International Emissions group and National Emissions Group (Gothenburg Protocol revision). • Reduction of ammonia emissions from our regulated agricultural sector. • Keeping abreast of and influencing international developments on air quality monitoring and abatement; improving the use of monitoring as a key tool in emission control and assessment; • Cascading air quality information within the Environment Agency through appropriate training and presentations. • Providing site-specific advice and support on air quality issues, including particulate abatement, across our regulated sites country-wide. The team You will lead the Air Quality component of the Monitoring and Assessment (M&A) team, within the wider Regulatory Resilience team. We are part of the Chief Regulator Group in the national Environment & Business Directorate. M&A includes teams specialising in environmental noise, and odour/amenity issues; and runs our monitoring certification system, MCERTS. Air Quality staff work closely with our odour colleagues on odour issues, and with our monitoring colleagues on emission monitoring certification. Experience/skills required You will have a good understanding of: • UK and EU air quality legislation, standards and targets; and international conventions and protocols. • The approach to permitting and regulation of industrial installations, including compliance and enforcement. • Air quality within the planning system and its interaction with regulation. Experience will also be welcome in the following areas: • Monitoring of atmospheric pollutants and the MCERTS certification process • Measurement and abatement of point source and fugitive pollutants. • The effects and mitigation of atmospheric ammonia on vegetation • Atmospheric chemistry • National and International Standards for air pollution monitoring. You will be: • Able to work with a wide range of internal and external customers. • Confident in providing evidence and technical knowledge to support decision making. Experienced in delivering technical information in accessible language; • Skilled at influencing outcomes through effective relationships; • Comfortable in the management of others.