Urban Nature Movement Data Analyst

About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.  

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Data Analyst to support one of the Natural History Museum’s main advocacy programmes – the Urban Nature Movement, and in particular the National Education Nature Park (https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/).  The Nature Park aims to empower children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future. This free programme provides all educators with the resources, support and guidance to embed climate and nature within everyday teaching and learning to give every child and young person in England the opportunity to develop a meaningful connection to nature, study biodiversity on their site and contribute to nature recovery across the country and build resilience for a changing world. 

Having launched in October 2023, the Nature Park is now in Year 2 of delivery and the team wishes to enhance our use of data insights to drive forward continuous improvement and uptake by schools, enhance the user experience, inform future investment, and communicate programme achievements. The focus will be on analysing participation and engagement data drawn from the programme website, tracking spreadsheets and from ArcGIS mapping tools, which schools are using to map and study biodiversity on their site. 

About you

The ideal candidate will have significant experience of data analysis on programmes and projects. You will have the ability to use a range of analytical techniques and a proven willingness to acquire new skills and knowledge to provide the team with insights to optimise our work, monitor user experience and make better decisions.

You will have demonstrable experience in compiling data from multiple sources to build semantic data models and reports, proficiency in using digital analytics tools, experience using data and evidence to drive better outcomes or business improvement, the ability and confidence to communicate verbally and in writing with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and familiarity with issues relating to data licensing, Intellectual Property and GDPR. 

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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What we offer

• 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
• Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
• Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
• Life insurance
• Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
• Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
• We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
• Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk
• Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

Hybrid working

We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events.  We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings.  We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.