Discover Green Careers with the Environment Agency

Green careers are a way for you to help the planet and grow your own successful future. Explore green careers with the Environment Agency.

Green careers with the Environment Agency

What will you do?

You’ll do vital, purposeful work that influences and protects lives, places and communities now and in the future.

Above all, it’s your environment, so the Environment Agency wants you to play a role in its protection.

What will you get?

The Environment Agency is a Youth Friendly Employer who will invest in you and allow you to grow and shape your career. They will encourage and empower you to collaborate and embrace the opportunities this brings.

What’s more, you’ll have access to agreat benefits package, including generous annual leave, an excellent pension invested with ethical and renewable energy businesses, flexible working arrangements and the opportunity to be part of a variety of staff networks.

Green careers – getting started with the Environment Agency

Looking for green career ideas? Not sure what’s out there, or where to begin?

You will know that climate change can create all kinds of environmental challenges, including flooding. The Environment Agency offer work placements to degree students exploring hydrology and flood risk modelling.

You don’t need to be great at science to get into green careers. If you are interested in the communications and business side of things, the Environment Agency offer work placements to business and communications students to help them understand important work like political engagement with government over serious environmental challenges.

There’s always a route into green careers, whatever your background and interests are. The Environment Agency offer apprenticeships, graduate programmes and many different opportunities to experience, earn, and learn your way to a rewarding career and sustainable future.

Green careers and planet-friendly work ethics

Tackling the climate and biodiversity emergencies requires us to think and work differently, both in terms of what we do and how we do it.

These are the work ethics and values of the Environment Agency:

• One team, one mission – create a better place.
• Focus on outcomes: deliver our commitments.
• Think big, act early, be visible.
• Seek partnership, show leadership, take responsibility.
• Innovate, move fast, stay agile.
• Value difference: include everyone.
• Be kind, stay safe and grow.

When you work with the Environment Agency, you will be encouraged to feel and experience the value and passion of protecting and improving the environment.

The Environment Agency work creatively and inclusively to lead and respond to change. And they put individuals (including young people!) at the heart of this: valuing diversity; focusing on wellbeing and being kind.

Take a look at the Environment Agency early careers hub to find out more about the work you could do, with early green career opportunities to get involved.