Biodiversity Indicators Adviser

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Post background
The Nature Conservation and Policy Advice (NCPA) Team in JNCC plays a key role in nature conservation in the UK, working with partners in the country nature conservation bodies (CNCBs), the UK and devolved governments and the wider nature conservation community. We maintain an overview of UK nature conservation policy and legislation; facilitate, convene and, where required, co-ordinate joint UK working on key topics; and work with UK countries on areas of priority where JNCC contributes complementary capabilities of evidence and advice, for example our work in land use. Within JNCC, the NCPA Team works collaboratively across the organisation delivering shared solutions, and in developing evidence-based approaches to addressing environmental threats and opportunities.

JNCC and Defra jointly produce and publish the UK Biodiversity Indicators. This is an accredited official statistics compendium, which shows the UK's progress towards meeting biodiversity goals and targets, including those set out through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

In December 2022, at the 15th Conference of the Parties of the CBD, a new ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted. It contains 4 goals and 23 targets, with a Mission ‘to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030’ towards the vision of “a world living in harmony with nature by 2050”. The GBF is accompanied by a monitoring framework that sets out indicators to track progress, including mandatory headline indicators.

The UK Biodiversity Indicator suite is being adapted to align with the new headline indicators. This will involve the modification of some existing indicators as well as the development of new indicators. The UK’s headline indicators will be used in the UK’s National Reports to CBD.

The post-holder will work with a JNCC-led project team to develop the methods for the headline indicators for the UK and subsequently produce the indicators for publication at the end of 2025.

This is an exciting opportunity to help the UK measure its progress towards the targets and goals of the GBF and ultimately feed into the CBD’s Global Biodiversity Outlook.