# Principal Ecologist

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: Croydon, 69 PARK LANE
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We invite you to join our dynamic Nature team as a Principal Ecologist in our growing Cambridge, St Albans, Nottingham, Birmingham, Croydon and Basingstoke offices, as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

As a Principal Ecologist, you will lead and support delivery of high-quality ecological consultancy and advisory services to both internal and external clients. You will oversee plan, schedule and organise all phases of ecological project work, ensuring necessary resources, budgets and controls are in place to meet both programme and budget requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and supporting production of ecology chapters for environmental statements and protected species licence applications

- Authoring or technically checking project deliverables to ensure high quality outputs

- Supporting development of technically robust and pragmatic solutions to complex ecological issues

- Mentoring and coaching team members

We offer a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. These include career development opportunities, flexible hybrid working model, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

To be considered for this role, you will need:

- A degree (or equivalent) in ecology or an associated subject

- Membership of an appropriate professional institution and working towards or obtained Chartered Ecologist or Chartered Environmentalist status

- Experience of leading and managing ecological surveys/licensing/impact assessment

- Experience in work-winning, managing projects, project budgets and leading stakeholder discussions

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## Skills

### Required
- ecology
- environmental impact assessment
- protected species survey
- mitigation licences
- project management
- stakeholder engagement

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