Job Description
The Natural Capital Manager will lead the Catchment Science and Data Team and develop an evidence base for data driven decision-making across all our catchment improvement work. With a clear understanding of environmental data, ecosystem service metrics, and environmental markets the role will unlock landscape scale restoration through effective and sustainable ecosystem services payments.
You will lead our Catchment Science and Data Team comprised of technical experts (e.g. ecologists, geomorphologists, and spatial data analysts) collectively providing the evidence base to inform the work of the Trust. You will encourage learning, development, and innovation in how we collect, interpret, and use data.
Bringing your own comprehensive understanding of environmental data and natural capital/environmental markets, you will support the Trust to link environmental improvement activities to appropriate funding mechanisms.
You’ll brief upwards ensuring the leadership has the situational awareness and actionable information they need to stay up to date and make good decisions, writing papers (and business cases) where needed. You will keep track of what is going on—and report on progress and financial performance. You will be asked for your opinions and input into a wide range of topics and may be tasked to lead or help lead on certain new initiatives or work fronts.
You will be assessing existing environmental data to derive insights and identify gaps, where necessary commission research/survey/study to improve our knowledge. And you will ensure that we inject data and evidence into project development, design, and delivery across our activities in collaboration with our teams.
You will be supporting the Trust to explore new and potential environmental markets, sharing learning with partner organisations. Looking across the Rivers Trust Movement and wider environmental sector, you will bring novel initiatives, good practice, and good principles in Environmental Markets to the Trust’s thinking.
You’ll help us continue to develop a brave, confident, capable, and well-respected organisation—that people want to work with and for. You will have your finger on the pulse of the relevant things happening within the catchment, the Rivers Trust movement, and generally across the sector.
Job Description and Person Specification
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Requirements
Experience of:
PS.01 Using environmental data to identify landscape improvement opportunities
PS.02 Collating environmental information into compelling reports/cases for environmental change
PS.03 Line management, budget management, and progress reporting
PS.04 Linking environmental improvement activities to ecosystem service metrics and markets
Knowledge and Understanding of:
PS.05 Environmental pressures acting across the landscape and suitable nature-based solutions to address these
PS.06 Current and emerging datasets and data collection methodologies to inform environmental improvement priorities
PS.07 Mandatory and voluntary ecosystem service metrics and markets within the UK which can support landscape improvement activities
PS.08 Current environmental legislation, including Biodiversity Net Gain, Priority Habitats, and Priority Species
Skills and Qualifications:
PS.09 Excellent communication skills, with a track record of maintaining relationships with partners, and presenting information effectively
PS.10 Relevant professional qualification/affiliation
PS.11 Excellent computing skills including GIS, Office Suite, relevant coding languages
PS.12 Leadership, supporting and enabling colleagues
Personal Qualities:
PS.13 Good organisational skills/discipline and the ability to plan, track, deliver and evaluate work
PS.14 Ability to prioritise and deliver work to relevant standards and tight deadlines
PS.15 Ability to work under own initiative, and as part of a larger, cross-functional team
PS.16 Innovative and applies creative thought to develop new initiatives and problem solving
Benefits
Salary: ÂŁ34,470
Pension: Up to 9% employer contribution
Hours: 35 hours per week (1 FTE)
Holidays: 28 days per year in addition to public and bank holidays (1 FTE)
Contract: Fixed term 24 months
Apply with CV/Resume and Cover Letter/Recording
Applications open until position is filled
