Earth Fellow: Coastal Carbon Baselining

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE05: £27,979 - £32,332 per annum, pro rata**

**Edinburgh Earth Initiative, Edinburgh Global**

**Part Time, 12 hours per week**

**Fixed-term for three months from mid-June 2024**

The Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability are looking for a postgraduate or PhD student to contribute to the University’s Coastal Restoration Project. The project is an innovative approach to addressing the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss by conserving and restoring habitats that support biodiversity and sequester atmospheric carbon. The student will create a carbon baseline and set up a monitoring framework to track the impact of restoration activities in a coastal area that is planned to be restored.

**Click here to view the full project brief for the Earth Fellow: Coastal carbon baselining, including key tasks and deliverables (opens browser in new tab).**

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Current University of Edinburgh postgraduate or PhD student
- Evidence of interest in climate and environmental change
- Ability to understand and evaluate experimental methodologies
- Ability to work proactively with colleagues in other work areas/institutions, contributing specialist knowledge to achieve group outcomes
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly

As an Earth Fellow, you will be joining a diverse, fun and dynamic team of researchers, students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme, you will have access to co-working space, exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.

Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiative’s work on climate change research-led impact, innovation, engagement, and teaching.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work alongside the Edinburgh Earth Initiative team and Earth Fellows community which includes undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students as well as the wider student community, academics, professional services, and global partners working on climate and environmental change. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

**Key dates to note**

Closing date for interviews is **22 May 2024.**

**Interviews will be held during week beginning 3 June 2024

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