Assistant Chief Engineer, Flood Risk Management and Climate Adaptation Services

Responsibility at Principal Officer level for Risk Management and Climate Adaptation Services. This includes the following areas:

• Flood and climate change research and evidence-building, and development of capacity for nature-based measures
• Strategic flood risk assessments, flood mapping and flood risk management planning (coordination of the implementation of the EU ‘Floods’ Directive)
• Spatial planning advisory service, and input to flood risk prevention and inputs to Government Task Force on Emergency Planning sub-groups
• Climate adaptation for flood risk management and coastal change
• Coastal change data collation, monitoring and risk assessment
• Inputs to subgroups