Senior Ecologist
Location: Sussex
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with experience plus a fantastic package including:
- Flexible hybrid working;
- TOIL (time off in lieu) policy and flexible approach to working hours to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
- 26 days annual leave (& bank holidays) plus an additional day for each year of service up to 29 days
- Opportunities for career development across the business
- Socials, games nights and volunteering days through our staff engagement and development initiative;
- Fantastic training
Summary
As a dynamic and growing consultancy my client is looking for self-motivated and positive-minded Senior Ecologists to join their friendly team in Sussex
The successful applicants will be involved in supporting clients in vast range of different sectors.
Responsibilities include co-ordinating and undertaking protected species surveys and mitigation projects, advising clients of constraints and survey requirements, preparing ecology chapters for Environmental Impact Assessments, and managing a team of ecologists to find commercially efficient and cost-effective project solutions.
This position will provide a great opportunity to lead and deliver complex contracts and support more junior staff, draft high-quality reports and review technical work, as well as support clients and their design teams by identifying solutions to their problems.
To be considered for the role, you will:
- Hold an appropriate degree qualification;
- Have a minimum of 5 years' relevant work experience;
- Have excellent knowledge of UK and relevant European environmental legislation;
- Have excellent fieldwork and report writing skills including protected species surveys, Mitigation Licence applications, and ecological management plans;
- Be comfortable with and have experience in attending meetings and liaising with clients, contractors, sub-contractors and third-party stakeholders;
- Be able to critically review your own work
- Be competent in the mitigation for one or more of the following species groups bats, badgers, birds, dormice, great crested newts, reptiles, and water voles;
- Have good excellent organizational skills and an ability to resource work;
- Be able to manage own workload, be proactive in managing projects and be able to delegate to and provide support to junior staff as appropriate;
- Hold Associate/Full membership of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) or be eligible;
- Be proactive, a self-starter and able to use own initiative when appropriate;
- Have a full clean UK driving licence;
- Be eligible to work within the UK.
Get in touch for more information and to apply.
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