Oxygen Conservation
Data Intern: Show what is actually changing
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About the Role
We generate the evidence behind every claim we make about restoration, on every acre we hold. We continuously capture remote sensing data across a 50,000 acre portfolio, so the evidence must move at the speed the data arrives and stay usable by everyone who relies on it. Measuring change is the easier half. Showing it clearly enough that someone acts, is the work. As our Data Intern you'll work within our Oxygen Intelligence team, converting satellite, drone, and field-based survey data into a clear picture of what is genuinely happening on the ground. You'll classify LiDAR data to quantify change across the portfolio, building the evidence that sits behind our Intelligent Carbon and Intelligent Estates models. That work then goes in front of the people making investment, restoration and management decisions: our estate teams, our Capital team and our investors. What you produce will be seen well beyond the team that builds it.
About You
Environment
- A love for the natural world and rural environment, and a commitment to its ecological restoration.
- Passionate about helping remote sensing data have a positive impact on environmental restoration.
- Fascinated by how environmental data informs environmental decisions.
Impact
- Excellent with data (Python, Cloud Compare, ArcGIS) and want to get even better.
- Strong attention to detail with great visualisation skills. You can tell the difference between a chart that is technically correct and one that tells a story.
- Rigorous and questioning, checking that a signal is real before you put it in front of someone.
- Comfortable with large data sets and challenging their integrity.
Adventure
- Excited to visit the estates and ground-truth what the data claims.
- Keen to work with emerging tools, including AI, and to help shape how we use them.
Together
- A clear communicator with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- A great listener who collaborates closely with colleagues to understand what they really need, and who is open to giving and receiving feedback.
- And let's be honest, you have to be really kind too. Sharing snacks on long journeys or a packed lunch in the driving rain is mandatory!
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We believe in recruiting exceptional people and creating opportunities that allow you to do incredible things. You don't need to tick every box above, and you don't need to look or sound a certain way to belong here. We are committed to building a genuinely diverse team, with a wide range of lived and learnt experiences. It doesn't matter what point in your career you are at, what school you went to, or whether you have a degree or not. We want exceptional people with a desire to make a difference.
Key Responsibilities
- Remote Sensing Analysis: Process and analyse drone-based LiDAR and imagery data to detect and quantify change across our landscapes.
- Visualisation: Build clear, honest visualisations and dashboards that make change visible at a glance.
- Maximising the Potential of Our Data: Bring your analysis to estate managers, the Capital team and investors in a form they can act on, refining it alongside them so it keeps getting more useful.
- Data Pipelines: Help build and maintain the processes that keep our data current, consistent and trustworthy.
- Ground Truthing: Work with estate and Intelligence teams to validate what the data is telling us.
- Tooling: Explore and apply new tools, including AI, that increase what a small team can do.
About Us
We're building the UK's first genuine Natural Capital portfolio: acquiring large landscapes, restoring them at scale, and proving that nature recovery can create real, investable value. Across our 12 estates, that means using restoration to create premium natural capital products like carbon credits, biodiversity units, and nature credits while also exploring regenerative agriculture, renewable energy and ecotourism experiences (you can check them out at Oxygen Escapes). In just five years, we've grown to managing over 50,000 acres and a valuation of hundreds of millions of pounds. By 2030, our ambition is to have 250,000 acres under restoration while to connect helping millions more acres for nature. Our mission is simple: prove that restoring ecosystems can not only deliver transformative environmental and social impact, but also financial returns. Our work hasn't gone unnoticed. In 2022, we were named Start-Up of the Year at the Business Leader South West Awards, followed by Team of the Year at the 2023 Edie Awards and our nature funding agreement with Triodos won ESG Deal of the Year at the 2024 Insider South West Dealmakers Awards. Our founder and CEO, Dr Rich Stockdale, is featured in the ENDS Power List as one of the top 100 UK environmental professionals driving significant impact.
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Key Information
- Term and Start Date: A fixed term (3-month) opportunity starting January 2027.
- Location: Remote (UK-based), with regular estate visits
- Salary: £26,500 pro rata
- Closing Date: Monday 2nd November
- Support: Travel and subsistence costs covered during your internship
Our Recruitment Process
We believe in keeping you informed every step of the way. Here's what to expect if you apply:
- Confirmation of Receipt: Once you press submit, you should immediately receive an email to say we’ve got your application! If you don’t receive this, please pop a quick message to our lovely people inbox (people@oxygenconservation.com) and we’ll check you’re on the system!
- Application review: Once applications close, we'll take around 2 weeks to carefully review every application.
- Virtual interview: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a one-hour virtual interview with some of our team. Those unsuccessful will be informed.
- Intern Dinner and Day: If your interview is successful, you'll be invited to our Intern Dinner (evening) and Intern Day (the following day), where you'll meet the whole team. All travel, accommodation and food are covered by Oxygen Conservation.
- Offers: Internship offers are made following the Intern Day. Please note: Attending the Intern Dinner and Day is essential to be offered an internship. It's the one time we bring the whole team together, and we can't repeat it. Once you've applied, we'll email you the exact dates for each stage so you can plan ahead. We're often oversubscribed, so thank you for your patience while we work through applications.
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