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Job Introduction
**Job details**
- Salary range: £25,992 to £28,163 per annum
- Work location: Hybrid Working with an office base at County Hall, Oxford
- Hours per week: 37 - we are open to discussions about flexible working
- Contract type: Permanent
- Closing date: 5th January 2025
- Interview date: January 2025
Do you have a passion for geospatial data and a desire to make a real impact on our natural environment? Answer the call to join TVERC as a Biodiversity Data Assistant Use your skills in technology and data management to help our communities harness the power of environmental insights and drive sustainable change.
**About us**
**About the role**
In your role as Biodiversity Data Assistant, you will assist the team to collect, validate and manage our species, sites and habitats data. Much of this is geospatial and you and the TVERC team will use it to provide services to our customers to help their decision making. As part of your key responsibilities, you will provide the day to day running of our data search and licencing service.
You will maintain excellent data standards whilst helping to maintain and develop tools and processes that ensure high levels of data quality and consistency throughout the data lifecycle including acquisition, storage, analysis and presentation.
Supporting and working closely with TVERC team members helping make sure the day-to-day processes work efficiently and reliably and deliver accurate and timely insights to our clients. Some of your time will also be spent on internal and customer projects.
We are a small team and work with a range of volunteers. You will need to work well with them providing some support and assistance in making full use of our systems and data.
**About you**
You love working with data and have an interest in wildlife and nature. You will be comfortable using Geographic Information Systems and may have some experience using and managing ecological and geospatial data. Along with good general IT skills you will also have some experience of SQL, R or another programming language. You understand the importance of the quality and accuracy of data and insights, enjoying taking action to ensure these are assured in your work.
You must enjoy collaborating as part of a small team but be confident to work independently. Comfortable taking ownership of problems and being resourceful and creative in resolving them. As the quality of our data and services are critical you will have very good attention to detail, be conscientious, methodical and accurate in your approach.
You may well spend some of your spare time involved with wildlife or recording groups and understand the ecological and planning contexts of our services.
**Rewards and benefits**
- Competitive salary from £25,992 - £28,163
- Annual leave allowance starting at 25 days per year (plus bank holidays)
- Pension - up to 19.9% employer contribution
- Flexible working - agile working policy
- Electric car benefit scheme, cycle to work scheme
- Staff discount scheme for a range of retailers, holidays, insurance, restaurants, health and leisure activities, and rail travel
**Would you like to know more?**
Please see the bottom of the page to view the Job Description and Selection Criteria.
**Application Procedure**
If you are shortlisted, you will be required to complete an exercise in your own time. This will involve using your skills to cleanse, synthesise, analyse and present environmental data. You will need to submit the code used, the results and a description of your methods, in advance of attending an interview.
During the interview you will be required to deliver a presentation, explaining the methodology you used in the exercise, what you found and how this might be useful to TVERC and their customers.
Initial interviews will be with a panel from TVERC and are expected to last for approximately one hour.
**Our commitment to**:
**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**
At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce. Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or on maternity or family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peer support, education and safe spaces for all.
**Our commitment to**:
**Guaranteed Interview Schemes**
As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job. We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education, we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships. We are also committed to helping and supporting those transitioning from HM Armed Forces to civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of
