Natural England
Nature Restoration Fund Data Senior Officer (Ref: 6656)
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Job Summary
This position is based Nationally
Job Description
- Lead NRF data management internally for NRF project, utilising the wider organisation and external sources.
- Lead data licencing with support from the relevant workstreams and data team.
- Lead and undertake data analysis tasks.
- Work with the wider team to ensure correct maintenance of data assets and classification.
- Ensure data policies align with legal and regulatory requirements and generate reports on data compliance and risk, where required.
- Identify opportunities for improvement and creation of procedures, frameworks.
- Work with the wider team to ensure correct maintenance of data assets and classification.
Skills And Knowledge
- Applies scientific/analysis knowledge to provide sound, data-based evidence to our internal and external stakeholders
- Good IT data analysis skills
- Demonstrate an ability to lead within a certain area that supports change, embraces challenge and adapts work practices to positively contribute to the Nature Restoration Fund outcomes.
- Data management and analysis skills including:
- Designing and deploying and maintaining databases relational and spatial databases (e.g. PostgreSQL/ PostGIS)
- Developing and optimising ETL workflows for data integration (e.g. Python, SQL)
- Knowledge of and experience implementing data, metadata and ethics standards
- Developing and maintaining metadata, validation and quality assurance systems
- Experience with cloud integration of data management systems (desirable), data extraction/ingestion and preparation, exploratory data analysis, and data visualization, including through dashboards and web mapping platforms.
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How To Apply
We welcome and encourage applications from all communities. Natural England is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If you require a reasonable adjustment at interview, or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you should notify us of this at application stage where possible, or well in advance of your interview. We now provide primary interview questions in advance for all formal recruitments.
This vacancy uses competency-based assessment. We'll assess you against the competencies below during the selection process:
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- Technical skills and knowledge
- Personal Effectiveness
- Work Delivery
- Putting People at the Heart of the Environment
When completing the application form you should present relevant examples using the STAR format. Give us an example of how you have demonstrated the competency (which can be work related or from another area of your life) and tell us about the Situation, the specific Task you had to undertake, the specific Actions you took, and the Result (both immediate and in a wider context) of your Action.
Please note that STAR format is not required when answering the Technical Skills & Knowledge competency.
Examples should be given in no more than 250 words for each competency.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend an interview via MS Teams or a suitable alternative, where you will be asked to give examples for all competencies as set out in the Job Description.
As with all roles in NE, these roles require office attendance of a minimum of 20% of the working time – one day per week for those who work full time, subject to any reasonable adjustments and/or existing contractual homeworking.
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