6883 - Higher Specialist - National

Job description

About

Our Role

Natural England is the Government’s adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. We do this working through and with others.

Strategic Outcomes for Nature

Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes. Each of these outcomes reinforces and amplifies the others, and together they address environmental, social and economic actions critical to thriving nature.

Recovering Nature– Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.

Building Better Places– Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.

Improving Health and Wellbeing– Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.

Delivering Security through Nature– Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.

Find out more about the work of Natural England at:

Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK

The Role

The Team is responsible for delivering Natural England’s part of the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA).

The NCEA is a transformative programme to understand the extent, condition and change over time of environmental assets across England's land and water environments, supporting the government’s ambition to improve the environment within a generation. Data will come from Earth Observation, professional field data collection, citizen science and partner data sets.

Natural England’s NCEA is organised into projects:

Mapping and Earth Observation – Spatial data and maps on natural capital to inform national and local decision making and delivery.

England Peat Map – Mapping the extent and condition of England’s peatlands.

Field data collection – Data on habitats, soils, landscapes and species to understand the condition of natural capital assets.

Citizen Science – Working with citizens and community science to fill gaps, provide local and landscape scale information and engaging the public.

Data Engagement and Analysis - Making NCEA, partner and volunteer data available for analysis, integration, and use. Producing high quality evidence products by analysing and integration NCEA data.

Programme management – Managing Natural England’s NCEA programme.

You will be helping to deliver this as a part of project 5, by building and maintaining partnerships with key stakeholders. Within Data Engagement & Analysis you will be working with a collaborative team of specialists and analysts who as part of project 5 advise and enable NCEA projects to share and publish their products. You will engage with teams across NE, Defra Group and biological recording infrastructure partners and data providers. Additionally, you will be internally supporting and providing expert advice to project staff and solving problems for the NCEA to improve its data ethics, governance, maturity, and its management of data.