Marine Spatial Data Analyst (Maternity Cover)

About the role

We are currently recruiting a Marine Spatial Data Analyst to provide technical stewardship of Blue Ventures' spatial data system, ensuring the continued delivery of high-quality spatial data, dashboards and decision-support tools that support community-based fisheries management.

This role will combine spatial data management, database administration, data visualisation and user engagement, while supporting marine spatial planning analyses and the development of user-centred decision-support tools.

Working closely with the Head of Spatial Ecology, Ecological Data Scientist and the wider Data Science team, the successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining and improving Blue Ventures' spatial data infrastructure, ensuring it remains reliable, well-documented and responsive to programme needs.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in spatial data management and analysis, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for using data to support community-led conservation.

Reporting to the Head of Spatial Ecology, this is a full-time remote role, with occasional international travel to work closely with colleagues, partners, field teams and communities.

Roles across the Data Science team are highly interdependent, and candidates must be equally comfortable working independently: competently driving their own tasks and team priorities, and thriving within a small, collaborative team.

Given Blue Ventures' global, distributed structure, applicants must demonstrate experience coordinating effectively across regions and cultures, with genuine sensitivity to differing working styles, communication norms, and paces of work. This requires flexibility not just in schedule, but in mindset; meeting each team and context with openness, curiosity, and a genuine willingness to adapt.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical stewardship of Blue Ventures' spatial data system
• Ensure the continued delivery of high-quality spatial data, dashboards, and decision-support tools
• Combine spatial data management, database administration, data visualisation, and user engagement
• Support marine spatial planning analyses and the development of user-centred decision-support tools
• Maintain and improve Blue Ventures' spatial data infrastructure to ensure reliability, documentation, and responsiveness to programme needs

Requirements

• Strong background in spatial data management and analysis
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Passion for using data to support community-led conservation
• Experience coordinating effectively across regions and cultures
• Sensitivity to differing working styles, communication norms, and paces of work
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a small team

Pay

• 46,121-79,763 GBP (UK)
• 62,489-122,478 USD (Belize)
• 321,927,813-630,978,513 IDR (Indonesia)
• 4,015,965-7,871,291 KES (Kenya)
• 40,582,990-79,542,660 MGA (Madagascar)
• 69,143,850-135,521,946 TZS (Tanzania)
• 85,121-166,836 USD (United States)

Schedule

Full-time remote role with occasional international travel.

Contract duration: One year

Start date: August 24, 2026

Closing date for applications: August 8, 2026