Senior Adviser

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

- 252646**Salary**:

- £33,736**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Senior Adviser**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Architecture and Data
- Digital
- Geography
- Governance
- Science
- Statistics
- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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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 position is based Nationally**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.

Job description

**Role Description**

***The Senior Adviser will work closely with teams across Natural England as we identify strategic opportunities for improvement and innovation in our approach to data science and data engineering to deliver best available evidence. You will ensure that these improvements are underpinned by good data management and ethics.

This role will:

- Engage with teams across Natural England to advise on practical steps required to minimise potential harms that come from data collection, use and sharing throughout the data life cycle.
- Support responsible innovation across Natural England Data Science Services by ensuring that data ethics principles are at the heart of Natural England’s adoption of new techniques and processes to maximise the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and data-driven technology.
- Provide leadership in the delivery and communication of Natural England’s policies and guidance surround data management, working across the analysis directorate to understand the existing data and evidence landscape.
- Show leadership across our data management practices and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and suggest potential actions to minimise risk through data transformation projects.
- Ensure high standards of data governance and compliance with ethical requirements, particularly offering expert advice on specific issues such as data licensing and ethical data storage. Help to put in place project data standards, processes, and systems to ensure delivery of high-quality outcomes to internal and external customers.
- Facilitate teams across Natural England to navigate complex data ethics challenges through the development and delivery of relevant guidance, workshop sessions or one-to-one advice.
- Engage with data science and machine learning processes to understand and develop transparency to our data and Artificial Intelligence processes. Support the review of data quality and limitations.
- Resolve problems that involve detailed investigation and analysis and the exercise of judgment in making recommendations or determining appropriate action for resolution e.g. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or data licensing issues
- Lead on the development and publication of guidance surrounding the ethical challenges presented by Natural England’s use of geospatial data, including satellite imagery.
- Provide functional and technical leadership and capability building of Evidence Services colleagues; working to develop their skills and experience.

**About the Team**

Natural England is the Government’s statutory advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan. This describes an ambitious vision, bringing new opportunities to protect and enhance, and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

At Natural England, we love what we do. We’re here to make sure people and nature can thrive. A healthy natural environment is fundamental to our wellbeing