Project Officer North Somerset Bat Survey

University of Bath; Bath; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Bath is seeking a committed project officer to lead the North Somerset Bat Survey in 2025. You will manage the project, engage volunteers, and develop educational resources while contributing to crucial research on bats and biodiversity conservation.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Staff discount at Team Bath gym

Generous employer contributory pension scheme

Generous annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Experienced in acoustic analysis of bat calls.
• Skilled in developing and delivering educational materials.
• Strong project management and writing skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the North Somerset Bat Survey project.
• Develop and deliver education materials for local schools.
• Conduct bat acoustic surveys and analyze data using R.

Skills

Acoustic analysis of bat calls

Statistical analysis

Public engagement

Project management

Reporting skills

Tools

R

Job description

About the role

There is urgent need to understand how global environmental changes impact biodiversity. Urbanisation is a significant factor in current and predicted species extinctions and a major threat to biodiversity. The Bat Conservation Research Lab at the University Of Bath, led by Dr Emma Stone is running the North Somerset Bat Survey working in partnership with North Somerset Council to gather spatial distribution data on bats across North Somerset to enable sustainable development.

This project is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund with thanks to National Lottery players.

The North Somerset Bat Survey (https://batconservationresearchlab.co.uk/north-somerset-bat-survey/), is a citizen science project conducted with North Somerset Council to generate long term bat acoustic and distribution data through public engagement, that will be used to inform urban and rural development planning decisions at a county level. Detectors are hosted at 12 centres around the county and we coordinate groups of volunteers to engage in bat surveys by deploying detectors, recording and uploading data and creating bat distribution maps.

We are seeking an experienced committed project officer to lead and manage the administration and delivery of the project in 2025 including developing and delivering education materials for local schools, and volunteer training and materials, manage the website and social media, conduct bat acoustic surveys, analysis of acoustic data, use of R for mapping of data, reporting, conduct PR and media events and volunteer engagement and review. .

Essential

Experienced in acoustic analysis of bat calls

Experience of developing and delivering education materials

Experienced in statistical analysis, mapping and predictive modelling in R or similar software

Project management skills

Excelling writing and reporting skills

Public engagement and speaking skills

Desirable

Experience of coordinating citizen science programmes

Management and development of education programmes

Media experience including Radio and TV

Additional information

This contract is offered on a full-time, 12 month fixed-term basis.

For informal discussions relating to this role, please contact:

Emma [e-mail],or Thomas [e-mail]

What we can offer you:

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving aSilver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university.We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing ourSafer Recruitmentcommitment.

We are very proud to be anautism friendly universityand are an accreditedDisability Confident Leader; committed tobuilding disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath

£26,038 to £29,659. Grade 5, per annum