Senior Ecologist - BNG Specialist
Full-time, permanent, WFH
Up to £40,000 + benefits
This role is home-based (although you're welcome in the office as much as you like) and would be ideally suited to a senior ecologist that wants to help drive the deliver BNG services to clients, including surveys, assessments and advice.
To keep up with our growth we have recognised the need to create a dedicated post for a specialist, senior ecologist to help us ramp up the delivery of our clients BNG product.
You will be responsible for training and development of junior consultants. We envisage you bringing energy, enthusiasm and attention to detail. You will have a well developed "coaching" mindset and enjoy the challenge of bringing out the best in talented young people.
Naturally, you'll be familiar with best practice standards and legislative drivers that apply to UK habitats and species. However, you will be primarily responsible for the delivery of BNG services for wide array of our clients' projects and assisting with the QC of the BNG work of junior colleagues.
Aside from delivering your own project work, you'll be assisting in the up-skilling of our team in the field and delivering bespoke, in-house training packages for all things UK habitats and BNG, particularly once the secondary legislation to support delivering BNG is published.
Essential technical skills:
This role will suit you well if you can demonstrate three to five years' experience (desirable) across a broad range of assessments for habitats and protected species, and especially if you have the ability to author higher-level reports such as EPS licencing, HRA and ES chapters.
However, it is essential for this role that you have a very strong grasp of the evolving developments in biodiversity net gain and are confident using UK Habs.
You will need to demonstrate that you can produce BNG assessments as well as on/off-site management plans and associated supporting documents to a very high standard.
Essential (non-technical) skills:
- Coaching mindset.
- Extremely well organised.
- Incredible attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritise competing demands on your time.
- Sociable.
- Excellent communicator verbally and in writing.
Ideally, you will also have achieved:
- Professional membership of CIEEM/RSB and are working toward chartership
- CIEEM's "Accomplished" criteria for Surveying (among others)
- FISC level 4
The ideal criteria are not all dealbreakers.