Higher Scientific Officer in Environmental Land - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £30,317 - £36,606
  • National: £30,317 £32,803, London: £33,827 £36,606. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading 'Salary'

Job grade:


  • Higher Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Fixed Term
  • Loan
  • Secondment
    Length of employment:
  • 2 years
    Business area:
  • DEFRA
  • FF&B
  • Future Farming & Countryside
    Type of role:
  • Analytical
  • Environment and Sustainability
  • Policy
  • Science
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime, Compressed Hours
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • Bristol, London, NewcastleuponTyne, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:


The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy.

Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.

The Defra group is dedicated to having a diverse workforce which represents people in our communities and an inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong within the organisation and can speak up to challenge.

We want everyone to be able to contribute to the success of our organisation, regardless of background.


Environmental Land Management (ELM) is a large and fast-paced division comprising policy, delivery and evidence teams working together to develop the new schemes.

Staff are geographically dispersed with a mixture of office and home-working arrangements in place. A range of technologies are used to connect between members as part of our day to day working.


The Environmental Land Management schemes form a core part of Defra's Farming and Countryside Programme (FCP) through rewarding farmers and land managers for environmentally beneficial activities.

Our new schemes will pay farmers and land managers for providing environmental benefits such as clean air, clean and plentiful water, thriving plants and wildlife, reduction in and protection from environmental hazards; beauty, heritage and engagement with the environment; and mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change.


We have an exciting and challenging Higher Scientific Officer role within the Environmental Land Management Strategic Science and Modelling team which sits within the wider Environmental Land Management Evidence and Analysis team.

We are multi-disciplinary, comprising of natural scientists, data scientists, behavioural scientists and other analytic professions. This new role will complement, expand and develop our policy-facing natural science capacity.


We are inclusive:


We recruit by merit based on fair and open competition, we embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity, and we are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

There is a disability confident scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.


Job description:


We are seeking a Higher Scientific Officer, with excellent technical ability, leadership potential, and co-ordination skills, to support with delivering high quality evidence to support the development of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes in England.

The post holder will join a team of natural scientists responsible for supporting both strategic policy development and delivery through the provision of robust scientific evidence and analysis.

As part of this role, the post holder will work closely with natural scientists, social scientists, data scientists, modellers and economists within the Environmental Land Management team as well as experts across the Defra family.


The post holder will be responsible for delivering projects for Environmental Land Management scheme content development, including managing internally, and externally commissioned research, as well as production of analytical products.


Person specification:


  • Liaise with policy colleagues to ensure project outputs meet required needs.
  • Work closely with evidence colleagues on natural science, evaluation, monitoring, social research, economic, modelling on Environmental Land Management scheme development.
  • Maintain up to date knowledge within area of expertise, explore and promote innovative research approaches.
  • Provide evidencebased responses and recommendations within area of expertise within short time frames.
  • Promote and disseminate research/evidence and analysis to relevant policy and delivery teams and more widely within the Department and across government departments to ensure key learning feeds into ongoing and new policy development and products have maximum impact.
  • Ensure externally commissioned research projects deliver robust, impactfu
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