About Pivotal

Pivotal Future is a nature-tech start-up on a mission to make ecosystem resilience a driver of corporate success, through accurate, truthful nature intelligence. Using advanced analytics and cutting-edge AI, we provide high-integrity, scalable biodiversity and ecosystem data and insights, empowering businesses and organisations to make nature-positive investments and operational decisions. Visit us at https://www.pivotal.earth/ to learn more.

Role Overview:

We’re on the lookout for a Scientific Community Lead (who loves nature and people equally) to continue to support and grow our global network of ecological experts. Our expert community plays a crucial role in ensuring the integrity of our biodiversity data by annotating, validating and contextualising ecological observations from our project sites around the world. Experts cover a range of species groups including mammals, bats, plants, frogs, and trees.

Joining our Global Delivery and Operations Team, the role presents a unique opportunity to shape a growing scientific community of thousands of experts working at the intersection of ecology and technology.

Please note that we are a globally distributed remote-first company and are open to applications from diverse geographies, but candidates should ideally be located within three hours of GMT.

Start date is as soon as possible.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our global network of ecological experts across disciplines (botany, mammals, bats, frogs and birds) and geographies (South America, North America, Japan, East Africa, UK and more!);

• Continue to grow our expert communities, building relationships across different platforms and scientific networks;

• Oversee expert community HR practices, including, interviewing, hiring, training and processing contracts and invoices;

• Draft and maintain documentation, guidelines and resources to support community members’ onboarding and ongoing training;

• Lead community testing and survey annotation validation using ecological knowledge to create and mark tests;

• Conduct data-driven analysis and research to understand challenges around expert testing
  with the goal of increasing test pass rates to continuously grow the community;

• Track and report on community engagement metrics, continuously identifying
  opportunities to foster belonging and engagement within the community;

• Play an important cross-functional role in acting as a bridge between our expert community and our internal teams across Operations, Delivery, Science and Innovation and Engineering.

What We’re Looking For:

• Someone who is passionate about nature and the communities which work to protect and preserve it;

• Someone who genuinely enjoys working with others and brings people together with ease;

• A natural communicator with a talent for building trust and fostering engagement across diverse cultural, disciplinary and geographic boundaries;

• Background in biology, ecology, environmental science or a related field. Formal qualifications (MSc or PhD) are welcome, as well as practical experience;

• Well-connected within the ecological science community, with established relationships that can support community growth and engagement;

• Strong organisational and project management skills;

• Familiarity with biodiversity monitoring methods, for example, camera traps, and acoustic sensors;

• An appetite to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven startup;

• A ‘roll up your sleeves attitude’ showing willingness to dive in and get the job done;

• Data fluency with good data manipulation skills using common software for example, excel and google sheets;

• Strong attention to detail and willingness to learn new tools and techniques.

Why Join Us?

• Impact – Work on data-driven solutions that regenerate biodiversity at scale;

• Innovation – Be part of a cutting-edge nature-tech company;

• Hands-on Learning – Gain hands-on experience in ecology, AI, GIS, and data science;

• Mission-Driven – Work with a team passionate about nature and technology;

• Remote-first – Flexibly work from where you prefer but must be within 3 hours of GMT.

Considering we are a globally distributed, fully remote company, we are committed to a market-led approach to compensation based on the location in which the employee lives and works. A guiding range for this role is
£50,000-60,000 per annum (or equivalent in local currency), dependent on geography and experience.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity, disability status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.