Senior Policy Analyst (Nature Recovery)

Overview

In this role, you will analyse environmental policy, legislation, and regulatory frameworks to support ESS assessments on environmental targets. You will coordinate and draft ESS responses to Scottish Government progress on biodiversity targets, and engage with stakeholders to gather evidence and insights. You will build relationships with government, local authorities, and the wider environmental sector to inform policy delivery. This position offers scope to shape how ESS scrutinises public authorities and supports effective environmental law implementation, in a dynamic, change-enabled team. You will help operationalise ESS scrutiny of targets and drive cross‑team collaboration for impact

Responsibilities

• undertake and commission analysis of environmental policy, legislation and regulatory frameworks to support ESS assessments on environmental targets and delivery of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy
• identify, gather, analyse and communicate intelligence on relevant policy, regulatory and legislative developments to a range of audiences
• lead the coordination and drafting of ESS’ statutory response to Scottish Government progress on delivery of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy
• engage stakeholders to gather evidence, expertise and insight on policy and regulatory implementation that supports environmental target delivery
• build and maintain effective relationships with key partners across in central and local government and the wider environmental sector
• collaborate across ESS to support analysis on key operational work streams, ensuring target-related developments are reflected in our work
• represent ESS internally and externally, promoting understanding of ESS, its role and the New Duties among public authorities and stakeholders
• support the department to develop practice and prepare ways of working to operationalise ESS scrutiny of targets

Key requirements

• stakeholder engagement
• excellent written and verbal communication
• relationship-building
• policy analysis
• regulatory frameworks analysis
• data gathering and intelligence synthesis

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