Job Description

Are you someone who is passionate about creating, maintaining, manipulating, and analysing data? If you are, then these exciting new roles within the Natural Capital and Ecosystems Assessment (NCEA) programme are not to be missed. As part of this programme we are designing, implementing and analysing the data from new monitoring networks to allow us to better assess and understand the state of our water environment at a national scale.

These two roles will focus on building tools and processes that turn a range of monitoring data into useable national scale assessments of the environment. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your data management expertise and develop our approach for NCEA outputs and products.

Key tasks may include:

• Building a suite of tools that receive and process monitoring data from a variety of sources and historical records, creating the data that will underpin future assessment and analysis work
• Piloting the use of the assessment tools and products to give further confidence in our outputs
• Ensuring work can be handed over to other users by building guidance, support, and automated features.

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and help provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

The team

The two posts will sit within the Strategic Assessment & Reporting (SAR) and Strategic Evidence Design & Assessment (SEDA) teams (one post in each team) which are part of the Chief Scientist\'s Group in our national Environment & Business Directorate. SAR and SEDA are friendly and supportive teams of data and information specialists, with a great reputation for delivering key information to drive the organisation\'s water environment activities.

Experience/skills required

The posts are a great opportunity for anyone who wishes to utilise and develop their data management and analysis skills and apply them to a national-scale activity. You should:

• Enjoy working with data and matching the needs of the customer to the analysis you do
• Be able to work well as part of a dispersed team
• Deliver your work with a focus on quality and attention to detail
• Have evidence of customer focus and good organising skills
• Be able to use tools such as Excel, ArcGIS desktop and Power BI to make your work more efficient
• Have experience of developing automated data integration processes in an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) application such as SAFE FME desktop
• Be familiar with Environment Agency monitoring data, although this is not a prerequisite.

Contact and additional information

These posts can be based at any of our offices across England. There is good opportunity for blended home and office working. Occasional travel for meetings may be required.

We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. We embrace diversity and promote an inclusive culture. We welcome applications from all backgrounds.

For more information on working at the Environment Agency and our benefits, see the candidate pack. Please note that the answers you provide to the capability questions will be used for interview selection. Interviews will be held in early September.

For more information on these roles, please contact: Jessica Swinburne Cloke, SAR Technical Specialist (+447787669432 or jessica.swinburnecloke@environment-agency.gov.uk), or: Karen James, SEDA Senior Advisor (+447818416069 or karen.james@environment-agency.gov.uk).

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Candidate pack

Closing Date:

06/08/2023, 23:55 hours

Level of security checks required

Basic Check

Length of contract

To March 2025

Competence 1

Data and Information Management

Description

Describe a time when you have had to integrate, analyse and interpret a new set of data.

Competence 2

Focuses on Efficiency, Innovation and Quality

Description

Describe a time when you have identified an opportunity to create, introduce and implement a new process or way of working.

Competence 3

Achieves Results

Description

Describe a time when you have delivered a piece of work, setting high standards, meeting targets and prioritising and organising tasks to ensure timely and effective achievement of results.

If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

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