Data and Digital Services Manager

Remote

England, United kingdom

£ 39,000 /year

Freelance

04-04-2025

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Data and Digital Services Manager

We are seeking a strategic and collaborative digital leader to help deliver a bold new data system for Scotland’s nature.

Position: Data and Digital Services Manager
Salary: £35,000 – £39,000 per annum, depending on experience
Location: Fully remote (with some UK travel)
Hours: 35 hours per week. Flexible working available. Part-time (minimum 28 hours/week) considered for the right candidate
Contract: Fixed-term to 31st March 2026
Closing Date: 9am, Monday 28 April 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 5 May 2025 (TBC)

About the Role

The charity’s mission is to make data work for nature. The Better Biodiversity Data (BBD+1) programme is a bold new step towards transforming how biodiversity data is managed, accessed and used to support conservation, planning and policy decisions in Scotland.

As the new Data and Digital Services Manager, you’ll play a vital role in implementing and supporting a new, shared biodiversity data system developed with and for Scotland’s biodiversity community. This is a hands-on, highly collaborative role where you will:

• Work closely with local environmental records centres (LERCs), NGOs, recording groups, government agencies and developers
• Support system configuration and data migration activities
• Lead ongoing digital service delivery and user support
• Build strong relationships and drive user-focused development
• Contribute to the long-term sustainability of a nationally significant biodiversity data infrastructure

This role sits at the heart of an ambitious and funded project, based on the recommendations of the Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) Review and delivered in partnership with NatureScot and the Scottish Government.

About You
We’re looking for a confident digital services lead or data manager who is:

• Experienced in managing data systems or services in multi-stakeholder environments
• Skilled in data standards, integration and system support
• A great communicator, collaborator and problem-solver
• Comfortable working independently in a fully remote role
• Passionate about using data to drive change in environmental or public sectors

Experience in biodiversity, conservation or not-for-profit sectors would be a bonus, but not essential.

About the Organisation
The organisation is a UK-wide charity working to improve the collection, management and use of biodiversity data. With a fully remote-working team who meet four times a year in person across the UK. A Living Wage and equal opportunities employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation.

Other roles you may have experience of could include:

Digital Services Manager, Data Systems Manager, Technical Project Manager, GIS and Data Lead, Environmental Data Officer, Information Systems Manager, Biodiversity Informatics Lead.

About the Company

The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Trust is a small charity with a big plan – to make data work for nature. For more than twenty years we’ve been making biodiversity data accessible, to support better decisions about the natural world and to connect people with nature. Biodiversity data (also known as ‘biological records’) is information about what species are found where. Without the NBN Trust, much of this data would remain unseen, unknown and unused. But we don’t work alone. Partnership is central to our mission, an... Know more