Esther Rees Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led team to manage risk and performance across core Defra and wider Defra Group.
• Presented regularly to to Permanent Secretary and Defra Executive Committee to inform them of major risk and performance issues across Defra Group. Proposed management solutions for arising issues oversaw delivery of.
• Led team to provide training and guidance to risk professionals across Defra Group.
• Line Managed two teams and oversaw continuing professional development of the division as part of the senior management team
• Led cross-Defra team to brief Secretary of State and Permanent Secretary ahead of parliamentary appearances.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led on business planning for the London Area of the EA. Developed and embedded new ways of working and led on significant elements of managing the business. In particular:
• Produced and led on delivery of workforce plan for the Area. This included managing budget for the workforce.Led on development and engagement on the London Area Local Outcome Plan (set out strategic ambitions of whole.
• Managed change or transformation programmes for the Area; liaising with HR, Unions and developing communication plans for staff. Chaired the building Health, Safety and Wellbeing Action GroupTeam Leader for the.
• National incident management role – Government Relations Coordinator - managed communications with PM, Ministers and MPS during major emergency events such as large-scale flooding or water pollution events. Coordinated.

South East

Providing strategic communications advice and expertise to Senior Management. Providing communications response during incidents, in particular, flooding, fires at waste sites and river pollution. Led on communications for the Environment Agency's role in the run up to and during the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. Currently leading on delivering.

Led on organising Ministerial and VVIP visits, Ministerial briefings and responses to Parliamentary Questions. Liaising with staff across the business in the Environment Agency, as well as core Defra and Defra family.

Reading, United Kingdom

Short term assignment. Managing External Relations across the South East region. Leading a team of six External Relations professionals and overseeing engagement work across the region. Having a strategic overview of communications activity across the South East, especially during an incident. Helping to raise the profile of the Communications team and.

London, United Kingdom

Leading on external engagement of Thames Regional Director and Regional Strategic Manager including co-ordinating their engagements across the region, writing their briefings and attending meetings with stakeholders. I was the lead for briefings with Thames based stakeholders so I often wrote briefings for the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Agency. I.

London, United Kingdom

Working under Huw Irranca-Davies’ portfolio co-ordinating responses to written Parliamentary Questions (PQs), Private Office (PO) correspondence and Oral Parliamentary Questions (OPQs). Working closely with Policy teams to make sure responses were accurate and on time. Co-ordinating briefings for Oral PQs and meeting Ministers for pre-brief meetings and.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Politics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Animal Science