# Consultant Ecologist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Liverpool, Merseyside
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Consultant Ecologist with WSP, you'll join a large, friendly team where collaboration, learning, and wellbeing are central to the culture.

You'll have the opportunity to work on large-scale and complex projects, contributing to meaningful biodiversity outcomes and nature-positive solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Plan and undertake ecology surveys, including Preliminary Ecological Appraisals and protected species surveys.

- Prepare tenders and ecological deliverables, such as Preliminary Ecological Appraisals, protected species survey reports, method statements, and management plans.

- Conduct Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) assessments.

- Work closely with clients, project teams, and GIS specialists.

- Apply the mitigation hierarchy and contribute to designing mitigation, compensation, and enhancement measures.

- Liaise with clients and manage projects.

- Consult and negotiate with regulators and stakeholders.

- Mentor junior team members.

- Help create an enthusiastic, supportive, and productive working environment.

- Take advantage of a generous training and career development budget.

Requirements:

- An appropriate academic qualification and/or experience in a related discipline.

- Membership of CIEEM (or working towards it).

- Understanding of digital data collection tools (e.g., Coreo, Fieldmaps, Survey123).

- Professional experience within ecological consultancy or a regulatory environment.

- Knowledge of BNG principles and guidance, and experience of BNG assessments.

- Clear, accurate report-writing skills and ability to produce robust ecological assessments.

- Familiarity with relevant ecology policy and planning guidance.

- Strong communication skills, solution-focused, and proactive.

## Skills

### Required
- Ecological consultancy
- Biodiversity Net Gain assessments
- Digital data collection tools
- Report writing
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- CIEEM membership
- Experience in ecological consultancy or regulatory environment
- Knowledge of BNG principles and guidance

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