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Salary range: £22,777 to £24,948 per annum

Work location: Hybrid Working with an office base at County Hall, Oxford

Hours per week: 37 – we are open to discussions about flexible working

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Monday 26th June 2023

Interview date: Week commencing 17th July 2023

Do you love working with geospatial data? Want to play an important role in using technology and wrangling data to help our communities use what we know about the natural environment more effectively? Would you like to be a Biodiversity Data Assistant at TVERC?

About us

TVERC collects, analyses and shares biodiversity and geodiversity information in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. This helps people make sound decisions about how to develop and manage land sustainably, where to direct wildlife conservation work and for scientific education and research. See www.tverc.org.

About the role

In your role as Biodiversity Data Assistant you will collect, validate, and manage our species, sites, and habitats data. Much of this is geospatial and you and the TVERC team will use it to provide services to our customers to help their decision making. You will maintain excellent data standards alongside maintaining and developing tools and processes to ensure high levels of data quality and consistency throughout the data lifecycle including acquisition, storage, analysis, and presentation.

Supporting and working closely with the Biodiversity Data Managers, much of the role is about making sure the day-to-day processes work efficiently and reliably and deliver accurate and timely insights to our clients. Some of your time will also be spent on internal and customer projects. We are keen to seek and implement improvements to our data platform and services, and this role will support in taking this forward. We are always looking to extend the types and volumes of data we can hold and use, and you will assist in helping make our systems support these.

We are a small team and work with a range of volunteers. You will need to work well with them providing some support and assistance in making full use of our systems and data. Many of the projects we work on with our customers use the data in new and innovative ways, this role will help the team extend our possibilities.

About you

You love working with data. a confident user of Geographic Information Systems and must have experience using and managing ecological and geospatial data. Your great IT skills will extend to be a confident user of both SQL and R. You understand the importance of the quality and accuracy of data and insights, enjoy taking action to ensure these are assured in your work.

You must enjoy collaborating as part of a small team but be confident to work independently. Comfortable taking ownership of problems and being resourceful and creative in resolving them. As the quality of our data and services are critical you will have very good attention to detail, be conscientious, methodical, and accurate in your approach.

You may well spend some of your spare time involved with wildlife or recording groups and understand the ecological and planning contexts of our services.

Rewards and benefits

• Culture of flexible working
• Technology to support agile working where role permits
• Up to 31 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development

Would you like to know more?

Please click here to view the Job Description and Selection Criteria

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Steve Wilkes (Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Director) at [email protected].

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