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Biodiversity Support Officer
| Posting date: | 09 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £26,379 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 August 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough or Aberdeen |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | JNCC Support Co |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 202436 |
Summary
Post background
The Nature Conservation and Policy Advice (NCPA) Team in JNCC plays a key role in nature conservation in the UK, working with partners in the country nature conservation bodies (CNCBs), the UK and devolved governments and the wider nature conservation community. We maintain an overview of UK nature conservation policy and legislation; facilitate, convene and, where required, co-ordinate joint UK working on key topics; and work with UK countries on areas of priority where JNCC contributes complementary capabilities of evidence and advice, for example our work in land use. Within JNCC, the NCPA works collaboratively across the organisation delivering shared solutions, and in developing evidence-based approaches to addressing environmental threats and opportunities.
The role will provide support to UK and country engagement work, and work across projects on biodiversity, protected areas and species lists. More specifically, this includes:
• Supporting UK-coordination work on protected areas, especially JNCC’s duties under the Habitats Regulations; and their relationship where relevant to multilateral environmental agreements (e.g. Bern Convention).
• Supporting successful engagement with UK government and devolved governments, as well as partner arm’s length bodies to support the development and implementation of policies for nature recovery; especially the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework, helping to ensure JNCC’s evidence and policy advice is effectively deployed.
• Maintaining and streamlining a variety of species and habitats datasets that JNCC manage or contribute to such as Great Britain (GB) Red Lists and ecosystem service mapping.
• Providing secretariat support to a variety of group such as Habitat Regulations Reporting, GB Red List Working Groups, Land Use and possibly others, including convening meetings, collating of papers, distributing to group members, writing agendas and minutes.
Post Duties
The main focus of the post will be to provide project support to JNCC’s NCPA Team. This includes contributions to groups for which the team provides the secretariat as listed above.
The post holder will work closely with others including Country Liaison Officers, Senior Biodiversity Advisors and NCPA team leaders. This post can assist on a range of projects, evidence gathering and advice requests concerning biodiversity, protected areas, species lists, land use and legislation and policy. This will be achieved through a combination of government, CNCBs, and other relevant groups engagement, with UK co-ordination work a very important remit for JNCC.
The post holder will carry out the functions listed below:
• Provide the secretariat for a variety of groups already mentioned above. This will include organisation of meetings, note taking, following up actions, assisting with the production of agendas and papers.
• Assist with NCPA’s work related to UK biodiversity, protected areas, species lists, land use and environmental legislation and policy.
• Support the projects across the team on a range of tasks as needed; for example, this could include producing material for JNCC’s website and newsletters, analysing and summarising new policies, researching topics, exploring datasets using basic GIS skills, and data analysis and manipulation using spreadsheets and databases.
• Organise events such as meetings, workshops and webinars for internal or external participants; includes planning, logistics, facilitation, notes and reporting.
• Support to the NCPA team as needed, including planning, administration, project and task management, and activities of further team cohesion.
In addition, and depending on experience, the post holder will:
• Be able to work within a team, to contribute to wider team goals and to lead on particular tasks as necessary to deliver agreed work programmes; together with the ability to work independently and to manage personal workloads by assessing priorities and planning work programmes.
• Have experience of working with partners and stakeholders and building effective collaborative relationships.
• Have knowledge of ecology and nature conservation in the UK.
• Assist with data gathering, review and management for a variety of species, other relevant spreadsheets and databases, and spatial data.
Technical - To be a successful candidate you will have:
• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification and/or relevant recent work experience that provides the knowledge and experience described below.
Experience (Responsibilities) - To be a successful candidate you will have:
• Knowledge of ecology and nature conservation in the UK, with good knowledge in at least on topic (e.g. plant/animal ecology, or species specialism, or data analysis, or indicators etc.)
• Good communication skills and ability to communicate technical information to an audience of varying levels of technical understanding and ability.
• Good analytical and writing skills, with an ability to summarise information to produce succinct briefing papers and to communicate complex concepts to non-technical audiences in simple, concise, and easily accessible terms.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage busy schedules and work at pace, deliver secretarial duties such as organising meetings, papers and writing minutes.
• Good understanding of data management and analysis using spreadsheets, databases and GIS.
Behaviours
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
In the event that we receive a large volume of applications we reserve the right to conduct the sift based on the Lead Behaviour of Delivering at Pace
The Nature Conservation and Policy Advice (NCPA) Team in JNCC plays a key role in nature conservation in the UK, working with partners in the country nature conservation bodies (CNCBs), the UK and devolved governments and the wider nature conservation community. We maintain an overview of UK nature conservation policy and legislation; facilitate, convene and, where required, co-ordinate joint UK working on key topics; and work with UK countries on areas of priority where JNCC contributes complementary capabilities of evidence and advice, for example our work in land use. Within JNCC, the NCPA works collaboratively across the organisation delivering shared solutions, and in developing evidence-based approaches to addressing environmental threats and opportunities.
The role will provide support to UK and country engagement work, and work across projects on biodiversity, protected areas and species lists. More specifically, this includes:
• Supporting UK-coordination work on protected areas, especially JNCC’s duties under the Habitats Regulations; and their relationship where relevant to multilateral environmental agreements (e.g. Bern Convention).
• Supporting successful engagement with UK government and devolved governments, as well as partner arm’s length bodies to support the development and implementation of policies for nature recovery; especially the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework, helping to ensure JNCC’s evidence and policy advice is effectively deployed.
• Maintaining and streamlining a variety of species and habitats datasets that JNCC manage or contribute to such as Great Britain (GB) Red Lists and ecosystem service mapping.
• Providing secretariat support to a variety of group such as Habitat Regulations Reporting, GB Red List Working Groups, Land Use and possibly others, including convening meetings, collating of papers, distributing to group members, writing agendas and minutes.
Post Duties
The main focus of the post will be to provide project support to JNCC’s NCPA Team. This includes contributions to groups for which the team provides the secretariat as listed above.
The post holder will work closely with others including Country Liaison Officers, Senior Biodiversity Advisors and NCPA team leaders. This post can assist on a range of projects, evidence gathering and advice requests concerning biodiversity, protected areas, species lists, land use and legislation and policy. This will be achieved through a combination of government, CNCBs, and other relevant groups engagement, with UK co-ordination work a very important remit for JNCC.
The post holder will carry out the functions listed below:
• Provide the secretariat for a variety of groups already mentioned above. This will include organisation of meetings, note taking, following up actions, assisting with the production of agendas and papers.
• Assist with NCPA’s work related to UK biodiversity, protected areas, species lists, land use and environmental legislation and policy.
• Support the projects across the team on a range of tasks as needed; for example, this could include producing material for JNCC’s website and newsletters, analysing and summarising new policies, researching topics, exploring datasets using basic GIS skills, and data analysis and manipulation using spreadsheets and databases.
• Organise events such as meetings, workshops and webinars for internal or external participants; includes planning, logistics, facilitation, notes and reporting.
• Support to the NCPA team as needed, including planning, administration, project and task management, and activities of further team cohesion.
In addition, and depending on experience, the post holder will:
• Be able to work within a team, to contribute to wider team goals and to lead on particular tasks as necessary to deliver agreed work programmes; together with the ability to work independently and to manage personal workloads by assessing priorities and planning work programmes.
• Have experience of working with partners and stakeholders and building effective collaborative relationships.
• Have knowledge of ecology and nature conservation in the UK.
• Assist with data gathering, review and management for a variety of species, other relevant spreadsheets and databases, and spatial data.
Technical - To be a successful candidate you will have:
• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification and/or relevant recent work experience that provides the knowledge and experience described below.
Experience (Responsibilities) - To be a successful candidate you will have:
• Knowledge of ecology and nature conservation in the UK, with good knowledge in at least on topic (e.g. plant/animal ecology, or species specialism, or data analysis, or indicators etc.)
• Good communication skills and ability to communicate technical information to an audience of varying levels of technical understanding and ability.
• Good analytical and writing skills, with an ability to summarise information to produce succinct briefing papers and to communicate complex concepts to non-technical audiences in simple, concise, and easily accessible terms.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage busy schedules and work at pace, deliver secretarial duties such as organising meetings, papers and writing minutes.
• Good understanding of data management and analysis using spreadsheets, databases and GIS.
Behaviours
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
In the event that we receive a large volume of applications we reserve the right to conduct the sift based on the Lead Behaviour of Delivering at Pace
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