# Higher Data Scientist – Drone Pilot & Earth Observation Analyst Status: Vacancy Live - ( Ref : 6843 )

**Company**: Natural England
**Location**: Stafford, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: GBP 33,780 per year
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

This role will lead and support the delivery of a range of Earth Observation (EO) projects, and the wider development of EO skills in the team and across Natural England.

In the Earth Observation Service, we undertake a wide range of EO work, including drone data capture and processing, coastline monitoring, as well as wildfire and habitat mapping.

We are seeking someone to be both an EOS Drone Pilot and Earth Observation Analyst, with significant experience and capability in both drone surveys and applying EO techniques.

About half of the role’s time will be dedicated to planning and carrying out drone surveys for environmental monitoring and analysis.

The other half of the role’s time will be dedicated to the other post holder responsibilities, including EO data analysis, contributing to and helping lead a variety of projects to support Natural England’s objectives.

Responsibilities:

- Be an EOS Drone Pilot, carrying out drone surveys across England, including planning, ground control, survey, post processing, data management and equipment maintenance.

- Carry out Drone data post processing, creating ortho-mosaics for our own drone surveys as well as surveys carried out by pilots in other teams.

- Contribute to EO Analysis, developing and running EO analysis, including through data acquisition, handling, manipulation, integration, and analysis.

- Maintain and develop relationships with customers and partners, engaging with partners and end users to share knowledge on EO approaches and products.

- Support capability building, documentation and quality assurance, working to help build and deliver technical skills training and create reproducible analytical pipelines and standardised products.

Requirements:

- Earth observation/Remote Sensing qualification at Masters level or equivalent experience.

- Good experience as a drone pilot, preferably with a GVC (General VLOS Certificate) for Fixed Wing and/or Multi-Rotor drones.

- Good experience of processing drone data.

- Good experience of using and analysing data from a range of drone sensors.

- Confident in the use of at least one GIS or EO analysis tool.

- Good technical experience of using EO techniques in natural environment applications.

- Full UK Driving License.

Benefits:

- Salary of £33,780 per year.

- Contribution towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

- Learning and development tailored to your role.

- Flexible working options.

- Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.

## Skills

### Required
- Earth Observation
- Drone Pilot
- GIS
- EO Analysis
- Python
- R

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