Officer - Local Nature Recovery Strategy Spatial Data - National

Nature Recovery is a key outcome of Natural England's strategy, and Local Nature Recovery Strategies are a critical and potentially powerful delivery tool.

With almost all Local Nature Recovery Strategies now published, Natural England is moving into a phase of enabling their delivery, both through continued support to Responsible Authorities and through a process of ensuring that our delivery of all NE's work in a place takes appropriate account of the relevant Local Nature Recovery Strategy.

You will join a small, busy team in National Delivery, which manages the demands and opportunities that LNRS' provide for NE, and which will have overall responsibility for ensuring that NE's Operations is able to meet the expectations of Defra, Arms Length Bodies (FC and EA) and Responsible Authorities.

You will be expected to use your geospatial data science knowledge and experience to lead the delivery of geospatial services to the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) programme, through the maintenance and development of the ArcGIS Online LNRS map and collation and analysis of the LNRS data submitted by each Responsible Authority, leading engagement with key stakeholders and NE/Defra colleagues as required.

The role requires a strong and visible presence, both virtually and in person. This includes confidently leading and contributing to calls, maintaining engagement, and building strong relationships with stakeholders., Principally, to act as the project manager and technical lead for the national LNRS map when it has been collated from the individual LNRSs submitted by the Responsible Authorities (RAs).

Functionally manage the higher officer and provide progress reporting to LNRS colleagues in Natural England, Defra, Environment Agency and Forestry Commission.

Leading engagement with external stakeholder and data providers such as the Defra LNRS Policy team, Forestry Commission, Environment Agency, Rural Payments Agency, Responsible Authorities and LNRS partnerships to ensure their data and requirements are successfully incorporated into the map, particularly regarding future data requirements for the monitoring of LNRS delivery.

Lead the LNRS Data & Evidence (D&E) workstream. Arrange regular team calls, write minutes etc for Bi-weekly D&E Workstream calls, and D&E Technical sub group calls.

Support NE LNRS senior officers with data, licensing and mapping queries from RAs.

Lead the work to support the development of GIS tools for the sharing and dissemination of LNRS geospatial data within the Defra group and externally to stakeholders and the general public, using ESRI's ArcGIS suite of products.

Lead the collation of 48 individual LNRS from Responsible Authorities into a National LNRS dataset.

Work with the Data Services licensing team to manage project data and data from external stakeholders in accordance with data licensing and data management procedures. Ensure licensing of national LNRS map product into an Open Government Licensing (OGL) Liaise with Ordnance Survey & RAs to enable this.

Work with the LNRS team / workstreams to assist in the recording of Mapping of Actions Undertaken by RAs to deliver their respective LNRS and the national monitoring of LNRS delivery. To assist the dissemination of government data (eg RPA agri-environment data) to RAs to assist with RA reporting.