Data, Evidence and Engagement Officer

Westcountry Rivers Belief is recruiting a Information, Proof and Engagement Officer.

This can be a everlasting, 37.5 hour per week contract after a profitable 6 month probation interval.

The beginning wage for this function is between £23,300 and £25,500 each year (depending on expertise).

There would be the alternative to make money working from home on this function and to work versatile hours. Journey
to the Westcountry Rivers Belief places of work and throughout the Westcountry for teamworking, conferences and occasions will probably be required on this function.

Advantages whereas working for Westcountry Rivers Belief

• 25 days Annual Go away each year, with a reward for lengthy service – a further 1 day per 12 months for annually labored over 5 years, as much as a most of 30 days for workers serving 10 years.
• An extra 3 days Annual Go away for the Christmas Closure interval.
• 9% Employer Pension, plus Life Assurance cowl

Apply by midnight on Monday twenty ninth April 2024.

Interviews will probably be held in individual at our places of work in Stoke Climsland on Thursday ninth Might 2024.

In regards to the Westcountry Rivers Belief

Fashioned in 1994, the Belief was established to revive Westcountry rivers. Measures to guard
rivers can assist to economize for farmers, decrease prices for water corporations, enhance tourism, scale back the necessity to dredge estuaries and even profit human well being. All the things the Belief does is knowledgeable
by the very best obtainable science. Their work is pushed by an ‘ecosystems method,’ contemplating the operate of all the catchment, not simply the rivers that circulate inside them.

In the present day the charity works with a variety of stakeholders from landowners to native communities, companies, farmers and water corporations to revive and defend the rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal areas for the advantage of individuals, wildlife and the native financial system. There has by no means been a
extra essential time to work on the rivers of the West Nation because the impacts of local weather emergency
and the ecological disaster is forcing society to spend money on constructing catchment resilience.

Spurred by a shared love of rivers, the Westcountry Rivers Belief may be very a lot a grassroots organisation, introduced into existence from the underside up. Within the early 90s, a gaggle of
people, passionate – however involved – in regards to the waterways round them, started to sew collectively their ambitions for restoring Westcountry rivers, laying the foundations for the Belief we all know as we speak.

All the things the Belief does is knowledgeable by the very best obtainable science. Their work is pushed by an ‘ecosystems method,’ contemplating the operate of all the catchment, not simply the rivers
that circulate inside them.

It was this new perspective – to not point out the hands-on and tireless method to river restoration – that grabbed the eye of so many supporters and funders and which lies
behind the flourishing rivers belief motion. Since then, the Belief now has circa 75 workers with an annual turnover of c£3m working multi-annual initiatives unfold throughout a variety of funders.

The Belief has three principal supply groups and a help providers staff. Our workers work on supply websites, from dwelling and from the workplace. Following the pandemic we’ve got moved to a hybrid approach of working and it’s important that our IT allows and helps this variation.

The Function

The Proof & Engagement Workforce is instrumental in collating, analysing and presenting
visually participating knowledge to make sure that the Belief is delivering the precise measures, in the precise locations,
and in monitoring and reporting the impacts of our work. A key aspect of this function will probably be to offer
GIS, knowledge, proof and engagement help to the Belief’s on-going work in utilizing proof led, catchment primarily based/entire ecosystem approaches throughout the river catchments of the South West and past.

We’re in search of an skilled and technically competent candidate who’s passionate and educated in regards to the setting and has a eager curiosity in GIS and spatial knowledge evaluation and presentation. Candidates also needs to be fascinated with preserving updated with new approaches to knowledge evaluation and the way knowledge will be utilised and visualised to provide artistic and interesting venture outputs which help the supply of constructive environmental outcomes. Coaching will probably be supplied on the job in relation to the number of initiatives the post-holder
will help. The profitable candidate will probably be required to proactively interact with stakeholders
throughout a number of sectors (e.g., water, vitality, transport, waste, well being).

Key tasks embrace:

• Information assortment, evaluation and interpretation of outcomes, desk-based research and venture experiences and proposals.
• Information inputting, evaluation, presentation and visualisation utilizing quite a lot of software program and on-line instruments equivalent to Excel, ArcGIS Professional, ArcGIS On-line or QGIS.
• Proactive and constructive engagement with a number of inner and exterior stakeholders and venture companions.
• Help in supply and facilitation of engagement actions together with workshops, shows and different in-person occasions.
• Assist Westcountry Citizen Science Investigations (CSI), our quickly rising citizen science programme, together with analysing CSI knowledge and dealing with group teams wishing to undertake their very own knowledge evaluation.
• Supply of different sorts of venture work, as and when required by venture or staff managers.
• Different administrative duties required by the Belief together with assembly H&S necessities, time sheeting & bills, attendance of coaching, CPD & staff away days, attendance at venture inception conferences and so on.

Important Standards:

• A superb information of, or background within the environmental or conservation sectors and a ardour for safeguarding and restoring the pure setting.
• An undergraduate diploma or comparable qualification or expertise in a related technical self-discipline.
• Demonstrable expertise in using GIS software program, both ArcGIS Professional or QGIS in an expert setting.
• Assured, motivated skilled with demonstrable expertise of manufacturing GIS or knowledge visualisation outputs for a variety of audiences. Wonderful knowledge evaluation abilities, together with expertise of information administration ideas.
• Wonderful written & verbal communication abilities for a variety of audiences.
• Expertise in knowledge collation, presentation and report writing.
• Capacity to coordinate a number of sources of data to tell the event of proof, plans and experiences for venture supply.
• Capacity to organise and prioritise/handle workload and time independently and successfully.
• Good IT abilities together with Microsoft Workplace 365 and wonderful interpersonal abilities each
  face-to-face and in on-line conferences.
• Data of the necessities for knowledge safety and confidentiality.
• Capacity to work flexibly, together with occasional evenings and weekends.
• The function requires journey throughout the Westcountry for conferences, occasions, workshops and sometimes to distant fieldwork websites.

Fascinating Standards:

• A post-graduate diploma in a related self-discipline.
• A information of GIS catchment instruments, catchment administration and nature-based options, in addition to environmental fashions.
• Expertise of utilizing R for knowledge evaluation and presentation.
• Expertise of utilizing VBA to automate processes.
• Capacity to provide top quality, visually participating science communications supplies, equivalent to infographics, ArcGIS On-line apps and StoryMaps.
• Expertise of working with communities and citizen scientists.
• Data of related environmental laws and statutory plans.

For queries about this function or the applying course of please contact [email protected].