6829 - Senior Officer - Local Nature Recovery Strategy Spatial Data Leadership - National

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With LNRS publication nearing completion, Natural England is focused on supporting delivery and embedding LNRS priorities into local decision-making and delivery.

This key leadership role within the Defra Group LNRS Project will lead the Data and Evidence Workstream, overseeing the development and implementation of a national LNRS mapping product and promoting its use across Defra Group organisations and Responsible Authorities.

LNRS is at a pivotal moment. We've moved from strategy into delivery, and the team is now building real momentum in supporting Area Teams and driving outcomes on the ground.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of something that is growing, evolving and making a real difference. We're looking for energetic, passionate and influential people who can help shape the next phase of LNRS delivery.

If you want to be at the heart of making LNRS a success, we'd love to hear from you.

Working within the National Delivery Team, you will provide strategic direction, lead collaboration across organisations, and help ensure effective delivery of LNRS objectives.

The role requires strong data literacy, policy understanding, stakeholder engagement and leadership skills, alongside the ability to support operational delivery and build effective partnerships to drive nature recovery at scale.

The postholder will work closely with project colleagues, Defra Group partners and Responsible Authorities, contributing flexibly to shared objectives and successful programme delivery.

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Key Tasks/Principal Accountabilities

Leadership

Develop and manage the workstream delivery plan.

Engage across LNRS workstreams to identify current and future data and evidence needs.

Contribute to Defra Group activity addressing data licensing challenges.

Establish trusted and influential relationships with key stakeholders across Natural England, Defra and partner organisations, ensuring that critical information is shared swiftly and accurately, and that emerging risks, issues and opportunities are identified, managed and escalated appropriately.

National LNRS Mapping Product

Lead stakeholder engagement to agree and review user requirements for a national LNRS mapping product.

Oversee delivery, including milestones, risks, dependencies and issue resolution.

Ensure coordinated delivery across the Data and Evidence Workstream.

Promote adoption and effective use of the mapping product across Responsible Authorities, Defra Group organisations and partners.

Workstream Priorities

Identify and prioritise future data and evidence requirements across Defra policy and delivery teams, ALBs and the wider LNRS project.

Data and Evidence Oversight

Contribute to nature recovery data standardisation initiatives.

Identify and address LNRS data licensing requirements through Defra Group engagement.

Oversee management of the national LNRS mapping portal and viewer.