Consultant & Senior Ecologists

Your new company

My client provides comprehensive commercial property advice both regionally and nationally to occupiers, developers, investors, and public sector organisations.
They offer a full range of services, including agency, development, acquisition, property management, rating, planning, building surveying, project management, landlord and tenant, valuation, and property investment.
They have a commercially focussed ecology consultancy team that supports clients through all stages of the development lifecycle. They support from the early stages of a scheme, from land promotion and early ecological constraints and biodiversity offsetting implications, identifying ecological risks and programming protected species surveys.

Your new role
The role will include a variety of office and ecology fieldwork and provide you with the opportunity to develop new survey skills, undertake protected species surveys and a wide range of ecology-related tasks with support from a mentor, providing you with valuable consultancy experience.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Organising and conducting field surveys.
• Undertaking initial desk studies - gathering, reviewing and assessing existing ecological information.
• Developing in-field data collection techniques.
• Undertaking protected species surveys such as GCN, bat and badger surveys amongst others.
• Conducting botanical surveys and using the latest BNG metric.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience in ecological consultancy
• Good report writing skills
• Knowledge of a wide range of ecological surveying techniques and methods
• Good project management skills
• Ability to liaise with clients effectively
• Excellent botanical skills and ideally a FISC qualification
• Level 1 or 2 bat license is desirable
• Level 1 GCN license is desirable

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary: £28,000 - £45,000
• Car allowance
• Commitment to ongoing professional development; CPD budget
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Inclusion in company-paid Healthcare scheme
• Payment of professional membership fees
• Flexible working - 2 days in the office p/month and flexible hours
• Informal TOIL system available

What you need to do now
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