This post represents an exciting opportunity to lead and support the development of an energetic and highly motivated team responsible for the science underpinning RSPB's work in Scotland and Northern Ireland. There is currently a diverse portfolio of exciting work including seabird census, ecological and tracking studies, studies of individual species of high conservation concern, work to understand the nature conservation impacts of changing land use and management across the uplands and associated High Nature Value farming systems, and long-term studies of ecological responses to landscape-scale restoration work in spectacular landscapes including the Flow Country and the Cairngorms. As a member of the Conservation Science Leadership Team, Science Portfolio Board and the Scottish Leader