Environmental Assessment Officer (Fisheries)

Job Details

What You Will Do
 

• Undertake ad hoc and routine system administration, data quality assurance, analysis and reporting.
• Provide specialist, monitoring technical advice and guidance to internal and external customers, from a range of sources; helping ensure that decisions are based on sound technical judgement, in line with current legislation and best practice. Produce technical reports analysing and interpreting national and local datasets for operational work, public enquiries, court appeals etc.
• Help ensure that NRW's monitoring data is collected and stored to the quality standards prescribed by European and UK legislation and by NRW policy.
• Assist Senior EAO and TL in planning, scheduling and tracking the annual survey and monitoring programmes, with regards to sampling activities.
• Advise on specialist non-routine monitoring/survey work and the analysis of data including input on delivery of operational measures.
• Contribute to delivery of survey and monitoring programmes.
• Guide, advise and support internal and external customers, ensuring decisions are made on sound technical data and information.
• Help resolve local issues by providing scientific and technical advice/interpretation of monitoring data.
• Assist in the development, implementation of new monitoring and reporting methods, including collaboration with partner organisations at a local level.
• Respond to requests for information relating to monitoring data, within specified deadlines.
• Maintain and procure specialist sampling equipment.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy , together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Required to take part in incident response activities.
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Peter Clabburn at Peter.Clabburn@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

Requirements

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.
 

• Experience of analysing samples, field-based monitoring/surveillance, interpreting and reporting on environmental data and practical knowledge of a wide range of monitoring activities and methodologies.
• Expertise in fisheries
• Excellent report writing skills and knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Experience of monitoring data management systems, as well as practical understanding of technical monitoring solutions and practices.
• Good analytical skills including statistics, and knowledge of data handling including GIS.
• An excellent communicator with good organisational skills.
• Ability to undertake fieldwork in sometimes physically demanding environments.
   

Welsh Language level requirements
 

• Essential: Level A1 - Entry level

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