Salary - £37,405 to £39,694
Hybrid working (50/50)
Permanent and Full-Time (37 hours per week)
Closing date for applications, Friday 31st January 2025. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early.
UKCEH is looking for an experienced Environmental Spatial Data Manager to join our team of talented individuals, contributing to scientific discovery and generating the data, insights and solutions that researchers, businesses and governments need to solve complex environmental challenges.
Working at UKCEH is rewarding. Our science makes a real difference, enabling people and the environment to prosper, and enriching society. We are the custodians of a wealth of environmental data, collected by UKCEH and its predecessors over the course of more than 60 years.
As a valued member of our team, you’ll get:
24 hour, 365-day access to support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues plus access to our trained Welfare Officers
You’ll be providing much needed additional support for the Catchment to Coast group, whose long-term monitoring and experiments improve understanding of how environmental change impacts land, soil, freshwater and coastal ecosystems
Your environmental spatial datamanagementexpertise will be used to support the Environment and Rural affairs Monitoring and Modelling Programme (ERAMMP). The programme is one of the highest income projects in UKCEH’s science portfolio, encompassing three main components:
Your main focus will be to support the ERAMMP field teams and data analysts. Working together, you'll help us to deliver our integrated national field survey of Wales, which the Welsh Government use to help develop future environmental policy.
You’ll be joining a leading independent, not-for-profit research institute that’s committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support you need to thrive at UKCEH.
Your main responsibilities will include:
Managing, processing and analysing spatial data, including data collected by field surveyors and derived from Earth Observation, as well as proof-reading metadata
Liaising with scientists and project management staff to manage diverse data flows, data cataloguing, including documentation of metadata, and disseminating data via UKCEH’s Environmental Information Data Centre
For the role of Environmental Spatial Data Manager, we need somebody who has:
Desirable skills or experience:
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Please send us your CV, which highlights any relevant skills and experience, together with what excites you most about the role and working for UKCEH.
We welcome applications from international candidates; however, at present, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
If your application is shortlisted, you will need to complete a 25-minute test on Python skills in spatial data analysis before you can progress to the interview stage. This will consist of 5 short questions testing your understanding of automating common GIS processes using Python, ArcPy or PyQGIS. The test will be administered online over Zoom or Teams.
If successful with the test, invited candidates can choose to be interviewed either online or in person at our Bangor office.
If you have any questions about the role, or working in the Catchment to Coast team, please contact Chris Feeney, email: chrfee@ceh.ac.uk
