# Senior Ecologist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Edinburgh, Midlothian
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are currently looking for a Senior Ecologist to join our growing Nature Services team. You'll work alongside a supportive network of technical specialists on a rich variety of projects across Scotland and Ireland.

As a Senior Ecologist, you will:

- Plan and undertake ecology surveys including Phase 1/ UKHab habitat surveys and protected species surveys.

- Prepare a range of ecological deliverables including Protected Species Reports and Preliminary Ecological Appraisals.

- Prepare tenders and a range of ecological deliverables including Preliminary Ecological Appraisals, Ecological Impact Assessments, Habitats Regulations Appraisals, technical reports and mitigation licence applications.

- Undertake client liaison and project management.

- Conduct consultation and negotiation with regulators and stakeholders.

- Mentor junior team members whilst helping to nurture an enthusiastic, supportive, and productive working environment.

- Participate in weekly and monthly Nature Services team meetings and national initiatives.

- Deepen your technical expertise and pursue professional development supported by colleagues and through formal training.

- Harness your potential to develop specific skillsets and share technical knowledge and opportunities for learning and innovations with colleagues.

We welcome applications from individuals who may not tick every box just yet but are eager to learn, develop and make a difference.

You will collaborate closely with colleagues across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast and contribute to a wide range of projects, including nationally significant infrastructure projects, renewable energy developments, utility refurbishment programmes, and smaller flood defence, active travel and green spaces projects.

You'll also work alongside experts in Biodiversity Net Gain, natural capital, ornithology, freshwater and marine ecology, arboriculture, landscape architecture, hydrology, engineering and geotechnical specialisms.

## Skills

### Required
- ecology
- Phase 1/ UKHab habitat surveys
- protected species surveys
- ecological deliverables
- client liaison
- project management
- consultation
- negotiation
- mentoring
- technical expertise
- professional development

### Nice to have
- CIEEM membership
- technical knowledge and competency in planning and undertaking ecology desk-based and field surveys
- ability to produce high quality, technically and scientifically robust ecological reports
- proven relevant experience gained within a professional consultancy, regulatory and/or industrial role(s)
- technical knowledge and competency of relevant ecology policy and guidance
- use of GIS (ArcGIS or QGIS)

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