Observations Quality Team Leader

at  Met Office

Job Introduction
We’re looking for an exceptional Observations Quality Team Leader to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our Observations Quality Team Leader, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
Our opportunity is part time, 18.5 hours per week, based in Edinburgh, Eskdalemuir, Lerwick, Aberdeen or Belfast. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• A degree in physical science or mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge and skills in the processing, archiving of observations or observational metadata, with the ability to use databases to extract and analyse.
• Expert by nature: Knowledge of historic data recovery process or the collection and utilisation of observational metadata. Including an understanding of characteristics and potential strengths and weaknesses of observations data.
• Proven organisational and planning skills demonstrating the ability to prioritise work and deliver successfully to tight time scales.
• Better together: Excellent communication skills with strong evidence of contributing to projects, building good working relationships with stakeholders.
• Keep evolving: Ability to lead and develop a team and/or strong evidence of mentoring and training colleagues.
• Ability to write process documentation, present technical information clearly and act as a specialist for observations data or observational metadata.

• Manage the work of the metadata specialist, data recovery specialist, and climate database software developers within Observational Quality monitoring area. To ensure services meet agreed levels of quality and cost and are in line with observation programme targets.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners to agree policies and standards in the management and exchange of data and metadata so that Met Office customer requirements are met.
• Develop work plans for these services and contribute to the development of Observations programme plans to ensure customer services are delivered.
• Lead on the development and implementation of successful changes to these services that reduce operating costs and/or ensure customer services are improved.
• Define and develop process documentation and standards for these services and provide training and mentoring for the teams involved.
• Lead and develop the team so that staff reach their potential and have the skills required to deliver the agreed observational services.