Interim Marine Science Officer

Interim Marine Science Officer

Application deadline: Friday, 16 February 2024, 23.45h

• Location: Cambridge, UK
• Full time: 35 hours per week
• Contract: 12 months fixed term
• Salary: circa £25,000 to £27,000 pro rata 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 someone to provide scientific and technical support to BirdLife’s Marine
Programme, including data preparation and analysis of seabird tracking data to inform
decision-making processes, and work relating to the identification, reassessment and validation
of marine IBAs and KBAs.

This person will undertake policy-relevant science analyses, particularly of BirdLife’s
datasets, as needed, including identifying priority sites for conservation, including marine
IBAs and KBAs, and spatial overlap with threats, to support to a range of global and regional
policy processes. The person will support and/or lead innovative research related to on-going
work. In addition to contributing to outreach communication from the marine science team.

Ideally, you will have:

• Excellent analytical skills.
• Experience of working with tracking data.
• Demonstrable ability to critically assess and synthesise information.
• Good organisational skills and careful attention to detail.
• Ability to learn new skills quickly.

See the full job description on the BirdLife International website.

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 pro rata 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 are happy to put into place reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability,
so please let us know if this is the case.

How to Apply:

Please email your application to us at: [email protected]

Please put “Interim Marine Science Officer” in the subject line. Your application should
include a cover letter summarising your suitability for the role, your CV and details of where
you saw the job advert.

We endeavour to reply to all our candidates, however, if you have not heard from us within
three weeks you should assume that you have not been successful. Please do continue to check
our careers page for any suitable future vacancies.