Job Description

Job description

Are you someone who is passionate about creating, maintaining, manipulating, and analysing data? If you are then these opportunities within Statutory Assessment and Reporting (SAR) part of the Chief Scientist Group the national Environment & Business Directorate are not to be missed.

SAR are always seeking new and innovative ways to use and share data and information. We help to drive reporting of environmental indicators within Environment Improvement Plan. We support Operations by providing high quality data and information so that they can be evidence based in local decision making.

In these posts you will build automated assessment tools that turns River Surveillance Network (RSN) sampling 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 RSN outputs and products.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Build a suite of tools that receive and process RSN sample data, turning it in to useable national scale assessments of the state of the English water environment
• Pilot the use of the assessment tools and products to further confidence in our outputs.
• Ensure the tools can be handed over to other users by building guidance, support, and automated features.

The team

SAR are part of the Chief Scientist Group in our national Environment & Business Directorate. A friendly and supportive team of data and information specialists with a great reputation for delivery of key information that drives the organisation’s water environment activities. The team works together to provide mutual support, share learning, and tackle technical challenges collaboratively so that we can advance environmental legislation and improve the way we provide information to Government and the public.

Experience/skills required

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

• Enjoy working with data and match the needs of the customer to the analysis you do
• Have the ability 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 to make your work more efficient such as Excel, Access, ArcGIS desktop, and PowerBi.
• Have experience of a programming language, such as R, and/or 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, but this is not a prerequisite.

Contact and additional information

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 all applicants, including disabled, LGBT+, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic, or neuro-diverse colleagues. Part time and job share applications are also encouraged.

The team may be doing more recruitment over the course of the year. We will use a reserve list so that high-performing candidates from this assessment could be directly considered for further roles.

If you would like further information about the roles, please contact Nicola Hoggart on 07909895339/ nicola.hoggart@environment-agency.gov.uk

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £37,462.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Work Location: In person

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