THE ROLE

The role is a fantastic opportunity for an individual who enjoys working with people to secure positive ecological outcomes. It will allow you to build on your experience across a broad diversity of work types and take control of your own schedule with a combination of site and office/home working. Each day will bring new challenges to apply your skills to and interesting projects to lead on. Take responsibility for a range of ecological consultancy and advisory services for a variety of development, land management and conservation projects and contracts (e.g. preliminary appraisals, BNG and protected species assessments including licensing, mitigation and monitoring aspects, ECoW, biodiversity enhancement strategies and habitat creation). Liaise with clients, contractors and statutory agents, manage project budgets and timescales, undertake ecological surveys and produce high-quality technical reports. Your input will be instrumental in achieving successful project outcomes from initial concept to final completion checks; with the support and guidance of senior colleagues as required.

Furthermore, the role will allow you to constantly improve your technical competencies and, with structured training, enable you to attain protected species licenses and/or pursue an alternative chosen specialism. The position also presents opportunities to refine your commercial understanding via opportunities to input into project budgets, undertake performance evaluation reviews and improve operational systems and processes. Equally, we are keen to equip you with the management skills required to progress your career to a senior position including mentoring and coordination of junior colleagues, forward planning and logistical organisation, and negotiation and decision making.