Senior Statistician

Senior Statistician

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6 Months

£500-£600/Day Inside IR35

Remote

We are seeking a Senior Statistician for our Government client on a remote basis. The Senior Statistician role will be an initial 6 month contract, paying between £500 - £600/Day Inside IR35.

This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.

Role Profile:

-ESSENTIAL: ecological statistical knowledge

- The programme is part of their Monitoring Directorate. The primary objective is to detect biodiversity change and identify the causes over an appropriate timescale, with the purpose of increasing understanding of the impact of different ecosystem pressures and their interactions on biodiversity. It is particularly focused on the impacts on climate change and air pollution and produces data that is important for statutory reporting. The evidence it produces is intended for use in conservation advice informing effective recovery of nature and potential policy changes

-The programme is a strategically important, funded research initiative designed to address critical evidence gaps long-term, systematic data collection and analysis across 37 sites in England. The programme's success depends not only on data collection, but on robust statistical design and analysis to identify relationships between ecosystem pressures and observed biodiversity change-an area where uncertainty remains high and current understanding relies heavily on expert opinion rather than empirical, real-world evidence.

-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.

• 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. xgikmsk
• Consult evidence users and partners -including Natural England, Defra, research and academic institutions-to consider their needs during development of the new survey design.
• Experience of wo...