Marine Evidence - London, United Kingdom - Natural England

Natural England

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £27,273
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Lead Adviser
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Operational Delivery
Working pattern:
Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

Job summary:

This position is based nationally
Job description:

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing

We are the Government's advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government's 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

We want to:

Provide the means for everyone to discover, access, share, capture and use data & evidence;
Drive organisational direction and use of evidence services and approaches;
Enable and empower all to use evidence and innovative techniques to boost the recovery of the natural environment.

This is a nationally dispersed team so location is flexible.

Job description

The Marine Evidence Work Delivery Group carries out a range of work from data management through to analysis and evidence dissemination (including publication).

This role will be working with non-spatial evidence in both spreadsheet and relational database format. This includes, but is not limited to, datasets associating marine activities and pressures, and sensitivity assessment evidence. The role includes aspects of data management, processing and analysis. Documenting methodologies and processes for internal or external communication is also required.

The Lead Adviser will:

Support the Senior Adviser in establishing and prioritising business and functional requirements for marine data and information and ensuring Natural England's nonspatial evidence can meet these requirements.
Lead, manage and monitor delivery of specific marine evidence projects.
Provide technical nonspatial data management advice, analysis and expertise for relevant marine projects such as condition assessment and conservation advice.
Work with colleagues to ensure marine data and nonspatial information are managed appropriately, and made available and accessible to staff across Natural England, and external stakeholders, including through analysis and interpretation.
Ensure that the data are collected, collated and stored to adhere to the standards required by INSPIRE, MEDIN and marine legislative drivers.
Be the a technical lead for Natural England's nonspatial evidence, such as sensitivity assessment evidence, and provide advice and expertise on appropriate data usage.
Deliver formal and informal technical relational database training to users as required, and create or maintain guidance or technical documentation on aspects of marine data management and processes.

The team works flexibly to meet project requirements and therefore some aspects of the role may change as priorities evolve and develop over time.

Key skills / experience:

Working knowledge of marine legislative drivers, projects and policies, and how these are supported by data and evidence.
Some familiarity of the UK marine evidence community, and how data flows, providers, data archive centres and metadata flows function and are linked.
Familiarity with Marine data standards such as INSPIRE and MEDIN.
Conceptual understanding of the principles around sensitivity, pressure and activity interactions in the marine environment, and how these can be assessed and analysed in datasets.
Knowledge of marine ecology and marine habitat classification systems
Experience working with data and metadata processes, procedures and workflows.
A working knowledge of marine data gathering and survey methods.

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