# Senior Data Scientist - ( Ref : 6886 )

**Company**: Natural England
**Location**: Stafford, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 41,550 per year
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our team at Natural England. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead the development and delivery of robust analytical and data programmes and projects to increase efficiency and provide improved evidence to support the organisation’s strategic objectives.

**Job Summary** Natural England is the Government’s adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live.

**Strategic Outcomes for Nature** Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes:

- Recovering Nature – Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.

- Building Better Places – Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.

- Improving Health and Wellbeing – Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.

- Delivering Security through Nature – Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.

**The Role** The team is responsible for delivering Natural England’s part of the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA). The NCEA is a transformative programme to understand the extent, condition and change over time of environmental assets across England's land and water environments, supporting the government’s ambition to improve the environment within a generation.

**Key Tasks/Principal Accountabilities**

- Oversee small teams and programmes of work / lead, oversee and carry out complex data and spatial analyses to meet the evidence needs of a variety of Natural England, Defra group and other stakeholders.

- Put in place project data standards, processes and systems to ensure outputs are high-quality and robust.

- Understand organisational objectives and engage with business planning processes to provide technical intel and assist with prioritisation and scoping of projects and programmes.

- Liaise with project managers and teams to establish project planning and resourcing.

- Engage with customers and partners to identify and exploit opportunities for new or revised projects.

- Build capability in others in the team and across NE.

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**

- People leadership skills / experience in either a functional or line management context.

- Experience of planning and leading the delivery of projects.

- Data analysis skills relevant to specific role – including data extraction/ingestion and preparation, exploratory data analysis, and data visualisation.

- Experience working with a range of large scale spatial and non-spatial data types.

- Experience of coding in Python and R.

- Knowledge of mathematics, statistics, and algorithms.

- Experience in Machine Learning / Deep Learning applications.

- Experience in GIS software.

**Benefits**

- Flexible working arrangements.

- Excellent opportunities for career progression, training, and development.

- Generous leave allowance.

- Access to the Civil Service Pension scheme.

- Range of benefits such as shopping discounts and a cycle-to-work scheme.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- R
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- GIS
- data analysis
- spatial analysis
- data visualisation

### Nice to have
- remote sensing
- Earth observation analysis
- statistical techniques
- SAS
- SPSS

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