Senior Statistician

Job Title: Senior Statistician
Location: Remote
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Daily Rate: £600/day (Umbrella – Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside
ESSENTIAL: ecological statistical knowledge
The programme is looking to bring in a Senior Statistician role to help unlock the value of the long-term data sets collected by undertaking rigorous, iterative analysis. It will support development of a revised monitoring design, a key 2026/27 priority, ensuring that future data collection is efficient, targeted, and statistically robust.
About The Candidate (specialist skills & requirements):
Key Tasks

• 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 —including Natural England, Defra, research and academic institutions—to consider their needs during development of the new survey design.

Knowledge and Skills

• 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 (essential).
• A good understanding of experimental/survey design and related statistical analyses; ideally experience in ecological statistics (essential).
• Able to evaluate comparative approaches to statistical analysis and monitoring design, examine implications and make justified and evidenced recommendations (desirable).
• 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 (Essential).
• Experience of contributing to relevant scientific literature (including responsibility for statistical analysis) and/or relevant technical reports (desirable)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, especially in conveying complex information, data, analytical methods, and results to a range of audiences (desirable).
• Manage and deliver your work to meet agreed targets and deadlines (essential).

Reporting publication list
Able to communicate complex information
Ecological data Experience
ESSENTIAL: ecological statistical knowledge
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