Data Analyst

HM64: Data Analyst

Location: Remote Salary: Competitive Day Rate | Contract 6 Months

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Data Analyst on behalf of one of our clients. Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide statistical leadership for the 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 evidence users and partners to consider their needs during development of the new survey design.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 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.
• Ecological statistical knowledge.
• 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.
• BPSS Security Clearance.

Desirable:

• Able to evaluate comparative approaches to statistical analysis and monitoring design, examine implications and make justified and evidenced recommendations.
• Experience of contributing to relevant scientific literature (including responsibility for statistical analysis) and/or relevant technical reports.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, especially in conveying complex information, data, analytical methods and results to a range of audiences.

Location: Remote Salary: Competitive Day Rate | Contract 6 Months