About this role
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On behalf of DEFRA , we are looking for a Senior Statistician (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month contract based Remotely .
As a Senior Statistician , your main responsibilities will be:
- Provide statistical leadership for the LTEC programme, undertaking complex statistical analysis to help meet its primary objectives .
- Unlock the value of long-term datasets by thorough rigorous, iterative analysis .
- Analysis of complex , multi-pressure ecological datasets, required to identify causal drivers of ecosystem change.
- Develop a revised monitoring design to reduce redundancy and increase statistical power, improving efficiency and ensuring that future data collection is efficient, targeted, and statistically robust.
- Revise the monitoring design to retain as much of the current methodology as possible, to facilitate maximum use of existing data.
- Consult LTEC evidence users and partners —including Natural England, Defra, research and academic institutions—to consider their needs during development of the new survey design.
Essential:
- Experience of working in statistical and/or ecological or environmental fields, educated to degree level in a relevant subject or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience
- A good understanding of experimental/survey design and related statistical analyses ; ideally experience in ecological statistics
- Experience of a range of statistical techniques in R or Python (or SPSS) for examining relationships (including multivariate) between data and for inference, parametric and non-parametric analysis , and quantifying uncertainty
- Manage and deliver your work to meet agreed targets and deadlines
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a Disability Confident employer, DERFA encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
DE&I Commitment
DEFRA guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant
As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, DEFRA welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".