Environmental Data Specialist

Put up Title: Environmental Information
Specialist
Workforce: Digital and Information Options
Ref No: 202411
Grade: H (HEO)

This put up could have a base in both Peterborough or Aberdeen.

JNCC has adopted a hybrid working method, permitting colleagues to profit from time in
the workplace, with the flexibleness additionally to make money working from home. Workers are anticipated to work from
our workplace base for 1 – 2 days a month at least, it will range by workforce and the precise
stability will depend upon the character of your function. We are able to present extra particulars on the interview
and provide phases.

Who’re JNCC?

Established in 1991, we’re the UK’s statutory advisor on points affecting the pure
surroundings throughout the UK and internationally. Our major function is advising all 4
Governments of the UK. We additionally work with personal sector organisations to help choice
making on the sustainable use of marine waters and pure assets across the UK. JNCC is led
by the Joint Committee, which brings collectively members from the character conservation our bodies for
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire and unbiased members appointed by the
Secretary of State for the Setting, Meals and Rural Affairs beneath an unbiased Chair.
Help is supplied to the Committee by approx. 300 individuals who convey collectively scientific and
technical experience, intensive information of coverage at world, European and nationwide ranges, and
expertise in working with different organisations. Employees are based mostly in two important workplaces in Peterborough
and Aberdeen.

Why JNCC?

We’re sufficiently small (c.300 employees) that your voice is heard by everybody together with the
CEO, however large enough that now we have all the abilities, assets and other people you’ll have to get the
job achieved. All our employees are enthusiastic about conservation and making a distinction to the world
we stay in. We’ve a really versatile, inclusive and welcoming organisational tradition. Our
Government Administration gives workers with the liberty and instruments you’ll need, and our
pleasant workforce will help you in your function.

JNCC is dedicated to sustaining worker well being and wellbeing, whether or not it’s
bodily, emotionally, financially or socially, and affords a variety of advantages to help
workers on this. Such advantages embrace the choice to hitch the Civil Service Pension Scheme,
skilled and private improvement alternatives in addition to an thrilling job in a singular
surroundings.

Hours of labor: Full Time

Regular minimal hours of attendance for the put up are 36 hours per week over a 5-day interval,
Monday to Friday.

Flexi time is obtainable. This put up may be appropriate for job share.

Annual Depart:

The annual go away allowance is 25 days per 12 months, rising to 30 days per 12 months after 5 years’
service. There are additionally 12 days public and privilege go away. Half-time employees will obtain this
on a professional rata foundation.

Put up background

Are you an skilled information engineer in search of a possibility to stretch your technical
expertise and have a constructive influence for nature? The Digital and Information Options Workforce at JNCC is
in search of a knowledge engineer to contribute their expertise and experience to a variety of technical
tasks and reporting tasks.

Because the statutory adviser to Authorities on UK and worldwide nature conservation, one among
JNCC’s key roles is the supply of biodiversity associated proof. Entry to good proof to
underpin biodiversity and nature conservation recommendation has turn into more and more essential because the
calls for and pressures on the surroundings rise. Proof actions regarding biodiversity and
nature conservation, similar to information assortment, dissemination, evaluation, and reporting, are all
vital parts of JNCC’s core features.

The Environmental Information Specialist will work within the Digital and Information Options workforce. The Digital
and Information Options Workforce at JNCC works throughout the organisation to ship artistic and
modern options which help biodiversity and nature conservation within the digital and information
house, in addition to providing cross-organisational undertaking administration, information safety, and
data administration experience. The put up holder will be part of the information engineering part of the
workforce working throughout an attention-grabbing and various vary of tasks. Examples of the tasks our
workforce are concerned in embrace main the information engineering perform for a brand new air air pollution
evaluation service, processing earth commentary information for focused tasks; utilizing Python and R
to extract and analyse marine information; creating databases, validation routines and instruments to
collate seabird information; and managing the UK protected areas databases.

Inside the teamlet there are many alternatives to work on tasks of curiosity and
collaborate with like-minded information engineers and builders. An curiosity in nature conservation
and ecological information could be useful to you however aren’t a requirement.

Put up Duties

The principle duties of the Environmental Information Specialist put up are to:

• Lead the event and building of knowledge services that feed into the Air
  Air pollution Evaluation Service undertaking.
• Lead or help information ingestion, manipulation, evaluation, reporting and publishing duties for
  numerous JNCC tasks utilizing scripting and ETL software program (similar to FME). Tasks embrace the UK
  protected areas databases and UK Biodiversity Indicators reporting.
• Contribute to the portfolio of automation work being undertaken by the workforce to enhance the
  manner during which we generate indicators and different information merchandise.
• Work with different groups requiring technical options for structured, unstructured and
  spatial information throughout JNCC to outline necessities and plan and ship modern options.
• Present recommendation or sensible design or manufacturing help in technical implementation,
  scripting, information administration or processing and automation to help programmes throughout JNCC.
• Lead function in high quality assurance and recommendation on administration of ‘manufacturing’-level analytical
  scripts and selling good follow in script creation, versioning, and documentation.
• Share finest follow throughout the organisation and mentor or ability share with colleagues.

Technical

To be a profitable candidate you can be/have:

• Strong expertise with R, Python, or an analogous scripting language, which you employ to
  manipulate and analyse information and automate processes. This contains the strong testing of outputs
  and high quality management checks on code produced within the workforce and elsewhere in JNCC.
• Potential to jot down SQL queries to control and extract information from massive and sophisticated datasets
  (ideally with expertise utilizing PostgreSQL). Expertise of designing relational databases
  could be a bonus.

Whereas not a requirement, in case you have an understanding of GIS techniques and spatial information and/or
information pipelines and ETL processes and instruments (similar to FME), we might love to listen to about it in
your utility.

Expertise (Obligations)

To be a profitable candidate you should have:

• Related expertise in administration, manipulation, and evaluation of enormous or advanced information for
  environmental functions together with the creation of metadata, audit trails, model management
  and establishing processes/guidelines for altering and archiving them.
• Expertise of, or aptitude for, working with others to establish information challenges, and design
  and implement options.
• Expertise of getting ready and publishing information on-line.
• Expertise of, or aptitude to make use of source-control, bundle administration, a number of computer systems
  working techniques or engaged on distant cloud computing platforms.
• Expertise of automating information processing as a way to generate efficiencies (together with
  automation of features and establishing hyperlinks to databases and webservices).

Whereas not a requirement, an curiosity in or expertise of nature conservation and
ecological information could be useful to you.

Behaviours

• Working Collectively
• Altering and Enhancing
• Speaking and Influencing
• Managing a High quality Service

Within the occasion that we obtain a big quantity of functions we reserve the proper to conduct the
sift based mostly on the Lead Behaviour of Working Collectively

Please see the CS Behaviours framework for extra particulars at this grade.

Nationality necessities 

This job is broadly open to the next teams: 

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth nations who’ve the proper to work within the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Eire
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled standing or who apply
  for both standing by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• related EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working within the Civil Service
• related EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who’ve constructed up the proper to work within the
  Civil Service
• sure relations of the related EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

JNCC don’t present sponsorship.

Deadline and interview date

The cut-off date for this put up is 23:55 on Sunday, 31 March 2024

The anticipated interview date is week commencing Monday, 08 April 2024

Please word that candidates invited to interview will probably be requested to undertake a technical
expertise evaluation on the identical day as their interview.