Job Description

Salary – £36,245 to £38,463 Depending on experience
Hybrid working (50/50)
Permanent and Full Time
We reserve the right to close this advert if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early.
Provisional interview date: Wed, 2nd August 2023.

UKCEH is looking for an experienced Environmental Systems Scientist to join our 600-strong team, contributing to scientific discovery and generating the data, insights and solutions that researchers, businesses and governments need to solve complex environmental challenges.

Working at UKCEH is rewarding. Our science makes a real difference, enabling people and the environment to prosper, and enriching society. We are the custodians of a wealth of environmental data, collected by UKCEH and its predecessors over the course of more than 60 years.

As a valued member of our team, you’ll get:

• 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years
• 10% employer pension contribution
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• 24 hour, 365-day access to support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues
• Flexible working opportunities
• And much more.

An exciting new initiative between UKCEH and Bangor University aims to enhance existing strengths by collaborating and drawing teams together from both organisations. ‘Connecting Land, Sea and People’ aims to drive new knowledge generation by working across traditional disciplinary boundaries. To support this, UKCEH and the University are creating new posts in environmental and social sciences to develop the collaboration. The UKCEH posts are permanent, with 50% of your time dedicated to developing collaborative research, building networks and contributing to the success of the initiative in the first two years. In the remaining time you will contribute to ongoing projects.

We are seeking a broadly trained, enthusiastic and committed individual who approaches central questions related to environmental and ecosystem sciences from a computational or modelling perspective.  We are looking for skills, and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Quantifying land/seascape-scale ecosystem services, and analysing spatial and temporal trade-offs/synergies among services
• Improving numerical simulation and prediction of processes in terrestrial, coastal or marine systems
• Analysis of field-scale experiments and monitoring data

You will play a significant role in the development of integrated assessments across the Land – Sea Interface. Bringing together knowledge from a range of disciplines essential for understanding ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services.

You’ll be joining a leading independent, not-for-profit research institute that’s committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support you need to thrive at UKCEH.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to UKCEH research themes in sustainable land use, natural capital and ecological resilience
• Developing and applying models for predicting change in land/seascapes and ecosystem function, taking account of environmental change and management interventions
• Working with a broad team of coastal, terrestrial and freshwater ecologists and land-seascape analysts.  Helping to integrate findings and analysis across different sectors and policy interests, and from local to national scale

For the role of Environmental Systems Scientist, we’re looking for somebody who:

• Has a PhD or equivalent experience in environmental or ecological analysis and/or modelling
• Has skills in data analysis applied to research
• Has skills in GIS (e.g. arcGIS. QGIS, R, or Python, etc.) and experience processing spatial data
• Is proficient in one or more relevant programming languages e.g. R, Python, and a willingness to learn additional coding languages
• Has a collaborative and inclusive approach across a range of teams and stakeholders, flexibility and excellent communication skills are essential, able to build and maintain relationships across a hybrid working model
• Has excellent time management skills to meet deadlines
• Has the ability to work independently and as part of an inter-disciplinary team

If we’ve just described you, we’d love to meet. Apply now.

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