RSPB Senior Conservation Scientist

Job Title: SENIOR CONSERVATION SCIENTIST

Department: CONSERVATION SCIENCE (210)

Location Of Job: Lodge based with considerable overseas travel

Proposed duration and start/end of contract: Established

Post holder reports to: Dr Juliet Vickery, Head

of International Research.  Reporting To Post

holder: Initially, no direct reports. However,

over time a number of Conservation Scientists

and field assistants are likely to report to the

post holder, which will vary depending on the

range of projects or other activities being

managed, and the time of year.  Overall Purpose

Of The Job: To provide the scientific expertise

in a particular area of Society activity and

manage the suite of projects and other

activities needed to underpin this support.  You

will be part of a team responsible for much of

the RSPB?s international scientific work, and

will make an important contribution to ensuring

the Society?s conservation policies and

practices are evidence-based. The remit of this

team is to support RSPB?s international work,

particularly for staff in the International, and

Conservation Directorates. Current projects in

the team?s portfolio include scientific

underpinning for RSPB?s work on: Gyps vultures,

sociable lapwing, northern bald ibis, Gola and

Harapan Forests, major island restorations (e.g.

Gough), long-distance migrants, European and

global agriculture, and climate change. You will

work closely with other team members to further

RSPB?s international scientific programme, and

help ensure it fits the organisation?s strategic needs.

The specific projects with which you will be

involved will vary over time, but in the first

instance may include: seabirds on the Azores

(Corvo Life + project), work on Overseas

Territories (e.g. Montserrat, Falklands),

imperial eagles and Egyptian vultures in

Bulgaria, and various projects elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

You will work closely with colleagues across the

Society, but especially those within the

International and Conservation Directorates.

External stakeholders will include colleagues in

BirdLife Partners and at the BirdLife

Secretariat; staff in Universities, Research

Institutes and non-governmental conservation

organisations; Government Departments and Nature

Conservation Agencies in the countries in which RSPB works.

You will be expected to travel overseas

reasonably frequently, but will also be expected

to think laterally about ways of reducing the carbon footprint of your work.