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:
Analytical
Environment and Sustainability
Operational Delivery
Science
Working pattern:
Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
3Contents

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Location

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.

This role will be working with spatial data (such as GIS files), tabular data and metadata records related to the mapping, monitoring, cataloguing and publishing of marine designated features, habitats and species.

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 Advisers in establishing and prioritising business and functional requirements for marine data and information; Support the Senior Adviser in ensuring Natural England's geographic information systems can meet these requirements.
Lead, manage and monitor delivery of specific marine data management projects.
Provide technical GI and data analysis expertise for relevant marine projects such as condition assessment, and those supporting elements of the DEFRA 25 year environment plan, or Environment Bill
Support the identification of new marine data to add to the online spatial data metadata catalogue, and compilation of new metadata to relevant standards.
Work with colleagues to ensure marine data and spatial 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, EMODnet and marine legislative drivers.
Maintain knowledge of industry developments in marine data gathering, data management and GIS to identify opportunities to further develop Natural England's exploitation of geographic information;
Provide specialist GI input and support on oil spill response or other marine pollution incidents where GI data needs updating and disseminating to relevant local marine team staff in a short time frame
Deliver formal and informal technical GI 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