# Consultant Ecologist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Belfast, County Antrim
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Consultant Ecologist to join our growing Nature Services Team in Belfast. You will work on nationally significant infrastructure projects, renewable energy projects, and utility refurbishment projects.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct ecology surveys, including Extended Phase 1 Habitat and protected species surveys

- Prepare tenders and ecological deliverables, such as Preliminary Ecological Appraisals and EIAR chapters

- Design mitigation and compensation measures, including Biodiversity Net Gain and biodiversity enhancements

- Liaise with clients and manage projects

- Consult and negotiate with regulators and stakeholders

- Mentor junior team members

- Participate in team meetings and take advantage of training and career development opportunities

Requirements:

- Relevant academic qualification and/or experience

- Membership of CIEEM, IEMA, or similar

- Experience working in a consultancy environment and knowledge of UK and NI wildlife legislation and policy

- Experience across a range of Irish habitats and species

- Experience of Ecological Impact Assessment and writing EIAR chapters

- Strong communication skills and solution-focused approach

## Skills

### Required
- Ecological Impact Assessment
- Ecology Surveys
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Project Management
- Client Liaison

### Nice to have
- CIEEM
- IEMA
- Irish habitats and species
- EIAR chapters

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