Conservation Scientist [Temporary Cover]

The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme (ELSP) is seeking a skilled and flexible Conservation Scientist (maternity cover) to support science and monitoring across an inspiring set of landscape and seascape restoration projects. This is an exciting time to join the ELSP, with a growing number of projects reporting the results of their monitoring, providing important opportunities to maximise the impact of these learnings. In addition, a new set of seascape and landscape restoration projects will get underway over the coming year.

The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme (ELSP), which is managed by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, aims to restore natural ecological processes, species populations and habitats across Europe's degraded landscapes. It achieves this by developing and funding a portfolio of large-scale multi-million-pound landscape restoration projects that combine research, practice, and policy change. The ELSP is creating landscapes that are enriched with biodiversity, and establish resilient, more self-sustaining ecosystems that benefit both nature and people, thus providing inspiration for a fundamental shift in the policy and practice of nature conservation. The Conservation Scientist will work closely with the ELSP Science Manager and other members of the ELSP Management Team to ensure that the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme and the landscape and seascape restoration projects that it funds have a sound scientific basis. The role will have a focus on working with
projects to develop and implement robust and appropriate monitoring plans to effectively measure their progress and communicating results coming from science work across the programme.

The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of the international biodiversity conservation sector and will have experience in designing and implementing data collection for field-based conservation or restoration projects. You will need experience in collecting, analysing and presenting scientific data, in addition to a good track record of writing up scientific results for a range of audiences, including peer-reviewed publications. The ability to multi-task, work well under pressure without compromising quality, and a collaborative approach are all prerequisites for this role.

The role is full time but requests to work 0.8 FTE will also be considered.