Species Specialist

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom Natural England Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 256712**Salary**:

- £27,273**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- Specialist**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This is a National Role**Job description**:
**The team**

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

- Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
- Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
- Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
- Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
- Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing

We are the Government’s advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

See more about the work of Natural England at:
**Team**

**Role**

As a Specialist for Species Recovery you will support colleagues to provide expertise on the conservation and management of species in England. Based in the Science Directorate, and working closely with others, you will have the opportunity to develop skills that enable you to interpret evidence to provide expert, practical advice across Natural England and to Government. You will also work with external NGO partners and consultancies to enhance the evidence base, collaborate and manage projects and achieve environmental outcomes.

This role is a key part of our succession planning and we are looking for individuals who have expertise or interest in a specific species group or taxa, and who want to develop these skills as a future specialist in this area.

**Key tasks/ accountabilities**
- Support the coordination and project management of Natural England multi-species projects, working with multiple species specialists, Principal Specialists/Advisers and external groups.
- Working with our species specialists, support and manage projects (both internally and with partners/contractors), with a particular focus on the Species Recovery Programme and follow procurement procedures when issuing contracts.
- Commission and assess evidence reviews.
- Work alongside species specialists to acquire a broad knowledge of ecology.
- Work closely with the Principal and Senior Specialists for species recovery to provide key technical support for species-associated work for the Environment Bill and subsequent legislation.
- Support work on large national data analyses and assessments arising from tasks such as the Environment Bill D4 and D5 indicator trajectory work, and potential revision of S41 Priority species list.
- Support work on IUCN Red List Assessments
- Support colleagues to provide integrated species advice about how species - particularly priority species - can benefit from the implementation of Local Nature Recovery Strategies.
- Take internal commissions from across the organisation, ensuring the needs of species are fully considered and that evidence is quality assured.
- Be qualified to at least BSc level in an ecological or life sciences discipline, or, show equivalent applied experience.
- Have good project management skills.
- Have proven knowledge of, and experience in, species conservation; with specific expertise in a major species group.
- Have a thorough appreciation of the Environment Bill and its provisions to facilitate species recovery.
- Understand the key role of IUCN red list assessments and underlying categories and criteria.
- Be effective in communicating (verbally and in written form) to multiple audiences, internal and external.
- Have knowledge of and experience in literature searches, writing reports and evidence reviews, be able to interpret, synthesise and summarise scientific papers, technical reports, etc. into clearly structured understandable reports.
- An ability to commission and assess evidence reviews.
- Have excellent organisational and collaborative skills, idea

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