The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) is at the forefront of the business and biodiversity space, providing practical solutions to the business and finance community. Supported by experts from 4 of the most influential conservation organisations, you will empower decision makers from global companies across a variety of sectors to incorporate authoritative biodiversity into their operational processes. You will provide critical support to one of the key platforms that companies use to understand and manage their relationship with biodiversity. Using your development skills and knowledge, you will help ensure IBAT remains the world’s most authoritative biodiversity tool and continues to evolve to meet the emerging needs of a rapidly changing disclosure landscape. IBAT has a rapidly growing client base; we currently support over 200 organisations such as the World Bank Group, Google, Rio Tinto, and Nestlé, and with the growing interest in biodiversity from the private sector continues to grow year on year.

IBAT is the product of a ground-breaking alliance between four major conservation organisations; BirdLife International, Conservation International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). Trends in species extinction risk would have been at least 20% worse in the absence of conservation action showing the importance of conservation. IBAT integrates data from core global biodiversity datasets – the World Database on Protected Areas, World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas, and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species – into a single portal to support decision makers from industry, finance, and governments. The revenue IBAT generates is crucial in ensuring that these global public good datasets have a sustainable future – in FY2023 IBAT sent US$1.2 million to our partners.

The salary range for this position is between £40,000 to £50,000 depending on experience and skills.

Main responsibilities

• Ownership mindset for maintaining and developing the IBAT platform and technical process. We are a small but dedicated team; your contribution will make a difference.
• Scope, architect and implement new features
• Implementation robust set of services and APIs and consume external ones
• Implementation of secure systems and data protection
• Integrate unit and feature testing as part of development process, specifically using test driven development (TDD)
• Learning new technologies and take responsibility of pushing best new software best practise into IBAT.
• Strong focus on the customers and their needs.
• Analyse, manipulate and transform large geo spatial vector and raster datasets to support the needs of the IBAT tool
• Work effectively in a small, cross disciplinary team to support a range of goals and objectives
• Articulate and explain technical concepts to a range of audiences
• Advise and collaborate with external developers regarding integration of IBAT Datasets into existing or proposed third party tools
• Contribute ideas and new approaches to development goals, you will have a considerable influence as the team is small but growing.