Somerset Environmental Records Centre Manager

Somerset Environmental Records Centre (SERC) is a member of the Association of Local
Environmental Records Centres and has close links to the National Biodiversity Network, and the
National Federation of Biological Recorders. SERC is hosted by Somerset Wildlife Trust who,
together with our partner organisations, guide the development of the Records Centre through
an Executive Group.

We are looking for an experienced manager to support the strategy and manage the SERC Team
whilst positioning SERC as the ‘go to’ ecological data evidence provider for the county.

Somerset Environmental Records Centre Manager

Salary: Manager Level 3 £31,321 – £39,761

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Full time

Location: Taunton, Somerset with opportunities for hybrid working

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

Strategy and Business Development:

The SERC Manager will be part of the Operational Management Team supporting the Senior
Leadership Team through clear strategy and business development by:

• Develop and oversee the strategic development, business planning and operational management
  of SERC.
• Ensuring SERC is financially sustainable and growing by seeking income generating
  opportunities to develop SERC business, identifying additional markets and services, and
  developing and implementing a Business Plan.
• Positioning SERC as the ‘go to’ ecological data evidence provider for the county and
  leading the marketing and communications to drive this forward.
• Ensuring SERC has capability and resource to achieve commitments through Service Level
  Agreements, ensuring that SERC is having a positive contribution to planning and policy across
  the county.
• Overseeing the development and delivery of the Somerset State of Nature Report, analysing
  and interpreting data to establish trends and identify where action for nature recovery needs
  to occur as the process for monitoring delivery of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for
  Somerset.

Responsibility 1: Data Analysis and Services

Manage a robust data collection and interpretation service by:

• Establishing customer requirements, including researching and monitoring of users’ needs.
• Contributing high quality information and searches to enable effective planning decisions
• Overseeing the work programmes in data capture, entry, management, analysis, interpretation
  and dissemination to support evidence driven decision-making.
• Negotiate SLAs with key existing and new service users

Responsibility 2: SERC Team Management

Achieve the aims of the Business Plan agreed with SERC Executive Group and Somerset Wildlife
Trust through:

• Managing the SERC team in the setting of objectives, considering succession, priorities and
  work programmes to ensure high quality, efficient and timely delivery of projects and services
  to users.
• Developing and applying Local Records Centre protocols and policies, meeting the
  requirements of data users and providers, as well as professional codes of conduct and the
  promotion of national standards, through achieving ALERC accreditation.
• Keeping abreast of and contributing to political and technical developments in biodiversity
  data management and make presentations of SERC’s work and national policy development to
  seminars and conferences.
• Receiving and resolving complaints and representations about SERC services from data users
  and providers.
• Setting and managing budgets, risks and issues.

Responsibility 3: Develop through Advocacy, Influence and Delivery

Be a specialist and nurture strong relationships by:

• Developing excellent relationships with national and local recording communities and
  support them to contribute high quality useful data that informs an evidence-led strategy to
  improve Somerset’s natural environment.
• Coordinating the SERC Executive Group to deliver and monitor an effective strategy for the
  Records Centre that provides usable data for planners, Service Level Agreement holders and
  working with Somerset Wildlife Trust, in the provision of a conservation strategy for the
  county.
• Set data access parameters to secure SERC business model while making data as open access
  as possible
• Developing secure funding and commercial income streams, and manage SERC project-based
  work, meeting the aims of an agreed Business Plan and Somerset Wildlife Trust’s strategy.

Additional benefits of working for the Somerset Wildlife Trust include:

• 7% employer pension contribution
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Flexible and agile working
• Wellbeing support – EAP, wellbeing champions
• Diversity networks through RSWT/TWT
• Paid volunteer days
• Continuous Professional Development opportunities
• Minimum 33 days of holiday (25 annual leave + bank holidays)
• Active staff social events

The opportunity to make a real and positive difference to nature, communities and the climate.

Closing date: Friday 10 May 2024

Interested?

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the
apply button to be directed to our website. 

Please note that we will review applications throughout the advertising period and may close
the advert early if a suitable applicant is found.

Somerset Wildlife Trust has an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Plan and is committed to
continuing to improve the equality, diversity and inclusion of every aspect of our work; we
know we need to engage with everyone to live our values and achieve our goals. We welcome
applications from everyone and are happy to discuss any accommodations or arrangements that
would make the recruitment process better for you, and the working environment should you be
employed.

No agencies please.