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Vacancy Details:
Career Grade D-H £27,254 to £51,356 per annum
Full time / permanent
Flexible / hybrid working
Closing date 13th May 2026
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy multi-disciplinary coastal management team managing coastal flood and erosion risk on the south coast.
Working within the Research team, you will be a Coastal Scientist/Senior Coastal Scientist, helping to protect communities, the environment and shape our coastal landscape for future generations. By using your scientific knowledge, you will develop solutions by working across a variety of projects, with the opportunity to be involved in different aspects of coastal research science, and GIS analysis. The successful candidate will ideally have experience or interest in the following areas:
Project Management
Working across the wider Coastal Partners project portfolio, this role requires undertaking technical project management for coastal process studies to inform option appraisals and scheme design. This involves working with in-house Coastal Partners staff or external suppliers. The role also includes project management of work packages for Beach Management Plan production and region-wide research projects, to better understand coastal processes through GIS analysis and modelling. You will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and be good at report writing and presenting your results to a non-technical audience.
Technical analysis and modelling skills
Working in the Research team, you will assist our tracer study service, undertake GIS analysis of data such as aerial photography, lidar, topographic surveys, UAV data, bathymetry and habitat mapping. You will have a background in geomorphology and coastal processes and an understanding of hydrodynamics. Ideally you will have experience in sediment dynamics, overtopping of beaches and hard engineering structures; modelling, climate change, Beach Management Plan design and works; cliff erosion and landsliding. In terms of software, it will be advantageous if you have experience in ArcGIS, MIKE 21, Telemac, EUROTOP and Matlab.
Your work will be diverse, working on the coastal process elements of our multi-million-pound engineering and habitat creation projects and smaller capital projects. You will work on and/or Project Manage our tracer studies, baseline coastal process understanding reports, numerical modelling, Beach Management Plan design/monitoring and habitat creation scheme design.
You will require a degree or post-graduate degree in geography, oceanography, marine science, civil engineering, or closely related discipline. This is a career graded post with the opportunity to progress through career grades. The initial salary is dependent on experience and qualifications.
We are a dynamic service with a fresh and optimistic approach to meeting challenges and opportunities and are committed to developing our people through training and support to offer a varied experience.
For more information about us please visit https://coastalpartners.org.uk/join-the-team or our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@coastalpartners/videos
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Dr Samantha Cope, Research Manager on 07775 910026