Location: | Work from home |
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Salary: | £34,562 to £36,556 (depending on experience) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 26th January 2023 |
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Closes: | 5th February 2023 |
Job Ref: | JR863 |
Hybrid working options available, with 50% of your time onsite
Permanent and Full Time (37 hours per week)
Closing Date: Sun, 5th February 2023, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.
Provisional Interview Date: Tues, 14th February 2023
We are an independent, not-for-profit research institute. Home to 600 scientists, supported by our experienced professional service teams, we provide the data and insights that researchers, governments, and businesses need to tackle some of the major environmental challenges we face today.
We want you to love what you do whilst looking after yourself, so we support you with excellent benefits such as:
A bit about you...
Are you excited by the potential for new technologies to help monitor the natural world?
Do you enjoy communicating your passion for technology and nature with diverse audiences?
Reporting to the project lead, we are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative ecologist to lead a global network of automated biodiversity monitoring systems.
Taking the lead on deployment of biodiversity monitoring systems UKCEH AMI-trap across the globe, together with the data workflows, including storage, visualisation, and analysis. Biodiversity monitoring systems comprising of acoustic recording and camera traps for moths will be deployed in four countries across three continents.
Liaising with in-country partners, arranging logistics and day-to-day management of the network, together with managing data and analysis. Beyond this principle project, there is the opportunity to collaborate on smaller networks being deployed in the UK and Europe.
Communication is key to this role, to technical and non-technical audiences, including citizen science groups. You will be funded for international travel to visit collaborators, establishing excellent working relationships with our stakeholders and assisting setup of monitoring networks.
You will become an important part of a global network of researchers and innovators, designing and deploying automated monitoring systems for biodiversity monitoring. UKCEH has a leading role in both European and global networking initiatives which are seeking to coordinate activities. The successful candidate will become a core member of these networks.
Here are some essential skills we are looking for:
We would be delighted if you also had the following skills/experience:
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