Senior Spatial Scientist

Reference quantity: 336047
Location: Northern Analysis Station, Roslin EH25 9SY or Alice Holt Analysis
Station, Farnham GU10 4LH or Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1EJ with blended working

In regards to the job

Job abstract

Need to work on the chopping fringe of environmental science? Enthusiastic about making a distinction
and enjoying your half in tackling the local weather and nature disaster? Forest Analysis (FR) is all
about giving high-quality proof and recommendation to policymakers and practitioners to make a
constructive influence on the bottom. Internationally recognised, we want individuals who have the abilities
and fervour to work on wonderful science and supply sensible options for nature.

We’re sufficiently small that your voice is heard, but massive sufficient, as a part of the Forestry
Fee, that we have now every little thing available to get the job executed, in addition to quite a lot of profession
pathways. Our workers are devoted to their work and sharing it with others to convey constructive
change for our planet. And you can see us a versatile and inclusive employer, so you may have
a piece life stability that’s tailored to your circumstances. So, whether or not it’s local weather or
carbon, pests or pathogens, behaviour or biodiversity that pursuits you, you will be assured of
a heat welcome to the staff.

We’re on the lookout for somebody to cowl a interval of Maternity Go away.

The post-holder could be liable for managing FR’s enter into collaborative initiatives
involving the co-development and utility of spatial strategies, fashions, and instruments to assist
policymakers and practitioners in taking motion to guard and enhance the biodiversity,
resilience, and ecosystem companies of wooded landscapes. Work contains main a collaborative
venture focussing on the influence of improvement on historic woodlands funded by Defra’s Nature
for Local weather Fund (AWDev (NCF)); inputting into the technical improvement of a web-based spatial
device led by the College of Studying to map the danger of woodland to deer injury (iDeer);
overseeing ongoing utility of a biodiversity index for the general public forest property (FOBI).

The post-holder will probably be a member of the Land Use and Ecosystem Companies staff (LUES) who conduct
analysis to extend our understanding of the affect of land use on the biodiversity,
resilience, and ecosystem companies (ES) offered by woodland landscapes. This multidisciplinary
analysis is used to assist policymakers, forest managers and planners perceive and assess how
the precise placement and administration of woodlands impacts biodiversity, resilience, and the
supply of ES at numerous scales. LUES has very sturdy nationwide and worldwide hyperlinks, and
our group gives professional recommendation and publishes broadly in peer-review, utilized and commerce
journals.

Job description

Key Work Areas:

• Work with colleagues and venture companions to co-develop and apply spatial indicators,
  evaluation strategies and determination assist instruments regarding the biodiversity, resilience, and
  ecosystem companies of wooded landscapes
• Lead and handle outlined initiatives and areas of labor in collaboration with venture companions
  and funders, similar to universities, authorities our bodies and conservation charities
• Handle work programmes throughout a number of initiatives together with finishing up funds holder
  tasks, job prioritisation and delegation, and progress reporting and monitoring
• Current and co-develop concepts, plans and preliminary findings with collaborators, funders, and
  different specialists
• Use R programming to hold out spatial and different knowledge evaluation independently and as a part of
  a staff
• Handle, share, and archive code and knowledge responsibly for high quality assurance functions and to
  facilitate collaboration
• Co-develop new determination assist and knowledge visualisation instruments, and handle present ones, in
  collaboration with device customers and with assist from colleagues
• Disseminate findings and publicise analysis exercise by summarising and presenting work through
  scientific publications, conferences, workshops, and seminars, as alternatives come up
• Keep and construct connections with prospects and collaborators inside and outdoors of the
  UK
• Handle three members of LUES workers. Assist reportees, venture staff members, colleagues and
  college students of their work, profession, and psychological well being

Particular person specification

Important Standards:

• Postgraduate qualification (PhD) in an applicable space of examine
• Vital related skilled expertise, ideally involving forest ecology and spatial
  modelling in a analysis atmosphere
• Expertise managing and main multi-partner and multi-year collaborative initiatives
• Expertise constructing venture proposals and creating and managing venture budgets
• Expertise of constructing and sustaining collaborations with a variety of stakeholders and
  companions
• Expertise of individuals administration
• Proficient R consumer and coder, together with use of R markdown
• Wonderful organisational, knowledge dealing with and report preserving expertise
• Expertise in dealing with, analysing, and modelling quantitative and spatial knowledge
• Wonderful verbal and written communication expertise (in English), together with as lead creator of
  scientific publications
• Proof of working independently and in groups

Fascinating Standards:

• An understanding of forest ecology and British woodland administration and coverage; in
  explicit, an understanding of mammal ecology, environmental planning coverage and/or herbivore
  administration could be useful
• Use of R Shiny to create interactive on-line knowledge visualisation/exploration instruments
• An understanding of biodiversity indicators
• Competent consumer of GIS methods for spatial evaluation utilizing each vector and raster knowledge
• Expertise of area work design; specifically, any expertise in eco-acoustic examine design
  could be useful

Behaviours

We’ll assess you in opposition to these behaviours in the course of the choice course of:

• Speaking and Influencing
• Making Efficient Selections

Time limit: 4th February 2024.