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Marine Data Specialist Starting salary £27,066 per annum JNCC is seeking a data scientist/engineer with solid skills in spatial data manipulation. The Marine Data Specialist will be based within the Marine Evidence Team and will contribute to JNCC's work to deliver robust evidence for conservation advice. The work of the Marine Evidence Team is cross-cutting and the post holder will act as a key liaison between this team and others within JNCC with regards to marine data. The post-holder will have overall responsibility for identifying issues with marine data holdings and finding novel solutions, including the establishment of efficient processing chains in a scripting language such as R, placing data in suitable repositories, and ensuring data holdings have adequate metadata in line with relevant standards and are stored in standard/agreed formats. They will also support the Marine Evidence Team with data processing and analysis. This will require candidates with the ability to: manage complex and large datasets; design and use relational databases; manipulate, interpret and map datasets and spatial databases within GIS packages, and; manipulate data using R or a similar scripting language. Furthermore, the role requires strong communication skills in order to provide support and advice to staff on marine data management and manipulation, and to share knowledge with internal and external customers on the best use of JNCC's marine data. The post is based in Peterborough and will be offered on a permanent basis. Staff receive 25 days annual leave per year (rising to 30 days after 5 years service) and 12 days public and privilege leave. Flexi time is also available. For more information about the skills/competencies required for this post, visit our website www.jncc.defra.gov.uk/jobs<http://www.jncc.defra.gov.uk/jobs> where you can download the details and the relevant application form and find out more about our work. Alternatively, contact us via [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and we will email the relevant documentation to you. The closing date is 09:00 on 17th October 2016, interviews are expected to take place in Peterborough on 8th November 2016. _____________________________________________________________________ This email and any attachments, is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not the named recipient then any copying, distribution, storage or other use of the information contained in them is strictly prohibited. In this case, please inform the sender straight away then destroy the email and any linked files. JNCC may have to make this message, and any reply to it, public if asked to under the Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection Act or for litigation. If you have a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information request please refer to our website page. This message has been checked for all known viruses by JNCC through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre however we can accept no responsibility once it has left our systems. The recipient should check any attachment before opening it. JNCC Support Co. registered in England and Wales, Company No. 05380206. Registered Office: Monkstone House, City Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE1 1JY. http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/ To unsubscribe or modify your gis-jobs settings, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/gis-jobs