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Join Earthwatch as a Science Coordinator and shape the future of urban ecosystems through citizen science
Overview
Salary
£24000 - £28350
Location
Oxford offices/flexible within the UK - Hybrid
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary: Earthwatch is an impactful environmental charity dedicated to connecting people with nature, monitoring environmental health, and informing impactful actions. With science as its core, Earthwatch aims to achieve a sustainable balance with nature, offering individuals the opportunity to contribute to vital environmental research and conservation efforts.
- Role Summary:
- Support the Nature in Cities research team, particularly on the Tiny Forest initiative and other grant-funded projects.
- Contribute to both qualitative and quantitative research to assess the social and environmental impacts of urban ecological projects.
- Provide scientific input and technical support for project development.
- Play a crucial role in organizing and conducting Tiny Forest planting and monitoring events.
- Collaborate with Earthwatch's Programmes and Engagement teams and project partners to drive effective citizen science and monitoring activities.
- Role Requirements:
- Demonstrable experience with qualitative research methods, especially interviews.
- A passion for citizen science and experience with community engagement activities in the field.
- Proven data management skills.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and solve problems in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Must have the right to work in the UK; Earthwatch cannot support visa applications.
Earthwatch is recruiting a Science Coordinator within our Science, Policy, and Innovation Team, to support the Nature in Cities research team, focusing on the benefits of citizen science and nature-based solutions. You will focus on our Tiny Forest and other Research and Innovation Grant funded projects, which aim to enhance urban ecosystems and water resilience through innovative, community-driven interventions.
The role will involve using qualitative and quantitative research to understand particularly the social, but also the environmental impacts of these interventions. You will provide scientific input, support technical development of the projects. You will have a key role in delivery of Tiny Forest events helping to run planting and monitoring days, and will work closely with the Earthwatch Programmes and Engagement teams, and project partners, to deliver robust citizen science and monitoring activities.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience of qualitative methods (particularly interviews), an interest in citizen science and field-based community engagement activities, experience of data management, and ability to multi-task, prioritise, and problem solve within a fast-moving, busy programme. We offer a friendly working environment and the chance to make a tangible difference.
Earthwatch is an environmental charity with science at its heart. Our mission is to live within our means and in balance with nature. We do this by connecting people with the natural world, monitoring the health of our natural resources and informing the actions that will have the greatest positive impact.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK; Earthwatch is unable to support visa applications.
