Application deadline: Wednesday, 14 August 2024– 23:45
Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid working)
Full Time : 35 hours per week
Contract: 2 years fixed-term
Salary: £30,000 - £33,000 per annum plus competitive 12% pension benefit
Annual Leave : 25 days pro rata in year 1, increasing by 1 day pa to 28 days
BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.
We are looking for a Flyways Science Officer to support BirdLife’s scientific, technical and science-policy work, relevant to BirdLife’s Global Flyways Programme. In this role you will be providing scientific and technical support to the programme, its initiatives and flyways relevant policy, conducting scientific research to understand the causes of decline and conservation issues for migratory birds, developing guidance and tools, and enhancing BirdLife’s data on migratory species and their ecological networks.
How you will do this:
- Provide scientific and technical input to the global Flyways Programme and its projects, including initiatives:
- Addressing illegal killing and unsustainable bird taking and other threats and conserving migratory birds, and securing ecological networks.
- Prioritising conservation efforts and securing key sites and ecological networks for migratory birds.
- Lead/contribute to research and analyses, working with collaborators, and publishing findings.
- Support science-policy work with international policy agreements to influence relevant policy agendas and government actions.
- Improve BirdLife’s data and develop tools and guidance to support decision-making across a range of users.
- Contribute to scientific and technical support and capacity building re: the flyways work of BirdLife Partners.
- Contribute to contract delivery and reporting for specific flyways relevant contracts.
Ideally you will have:
- A Master's, or preferably a PhD in biological or environmental subjects, or equivalent professional experience.
- Good knowledge of global biodiversity conservation issues, specific knowledge of birds would be desirable.
- Understanding of spatial data use in conservation and planning.
- Proficiency in data analysis methods.
- Experience in report-writing, developing research questions and authoring academic papers.
- Proven track record of building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
- Experience of GIS (preferably ArcGIS Pro or similar) and statistical packages like R
- Understanding of environmental policy is desirable.
- Strong organisational skills, the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in performing repetitive tasks.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written; high level of fluency in English - other languages such as French, Spanish, Arabic beneficial, but not essential.
- Willingness to travel periodically for work.
See the full job description here.
Some of our benefits:
- We are able to offer a hybrid model of working on-site and from home/remote for most roles, which helps to ensure a flexible work-life balance.
- A chance to work in the award-winning David Attenborough Building, which brings together much of the Cambridge-based conservation community on a ‘conservation campus.’
- A generous pension scheme, up to 12% company contribution.
- Holiday starting at 25 days excluding Bank Holidays and increasing for every year of service up to a maximum of 28 days.
- Full access to LinkedIn Learning with access to more than 13,000 high-quality, on-demand courses.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme, including access to Health Assured online health portal (webinars, nutritional advice, 4-week programmes, financial wellbeing and more).
BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.
We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.
We will consider putting into place appropriate reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability.
Please note: under the UK Government criteria this role will only qualify for Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship for candidates holding a relevant PhD. Please get in touch if you need further information.
Interviews: Interviews will be held in in the week commencing 09 September 2024.