GreenTech Systems Manager – Biodiversity and Conservation

GreenTech Systems Manager – Biodiversity and Conservation

Location: Cambridge, flexible hybrid

Salary:  £65K – £79K, 12% employer pension contribution, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Are you someone who loves our planet and wants to get stuck in with doing good in a role with a worldwide biodiversity-focused organisation? Have you been thinking for a while that you cannot wait to do more with your technical and managerial skills acquired over time? Are you somebody who’s been dreaming of working to support and connect people and systems for the benefit of species’ conservation? Read on.

Biodiversity is a buzzword right now. It needs critical and sustained support, presently.

Thankfully, as you’re reading this, there are organisations already working on deeply detailed and technical systems and tools aimed at recovering and regenerating ecosystems. These are essential in promoting collaboration and preventing biodiversity loss or limiting loss in scenarios where it is unavoidable.

These systems range from databases on endangered species and key biodiversity areas, to things like tracking pollution and the recovery of regions or species. They are integrated into companies, governments and organisations all over the world and help all to assess and understand how ecosystems interact and influence one another and how we, as humans, can better protect them.

The passion for what you do will serve you well in this role where the overall responsibility for a critical database and systems’ infrastructure management will be part of everyday action.

So, what will you be doing?

Some of the role will consist of ensuring the continued success of a vital tool by managing and planning platform improvements, overseeing the building of new features and supporting users and teams through their unique implementations and cross integration.

Another part of it is to do with innovation and long-term strategy and goals. You’ll work heavily with data and people around the world, ensuring internal and external teams, scientists, committees and all stakeholders have access to the information they require.

You’ll supervise and drive design, development of new features and [longer-term] take responsibility for architecture decisions, as the organisation is keen for the tech they use to keep evolving! They are looking to move even more towards cloud-based infrastructure and need someone to help build a case towards investing more in innovation.

Ideally, you are someone communicative, considerate and concise, who has the ability to explain to team members, donors and stakeholders – who may or may not be technical – how to develop things, why that’s necessary and what the long-term vision and benefits are in a way that make sense and achieves buy-in.

They’re looking for someone who is happy to be hands on a lot of the time. Hopefully, you’re keen to learn and happy using your initiative to dig out information, track down the right people to speak with across partnering charity organisations and have the “crack-on” attitude to learn new technologies quickly when needed.

It’s worth mentioning that use of one or more modern technologies like Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and/or Python is required, as well as good commercial experience with GIS as there will be times where urgent input of data will rest in your hands only.

So, if you care about our planet and all the beings lucky enough to reside here, if you want to have an instrumental role within a global cooperation between conservation data teams and consortium tech committees, then you should 100% hit apply.