# Principal Biodiversity Net Gain Specialist

**Company**: WSP
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Principal Biodiversity Net Gain Specialist to join our growing Nature Services team. As a Principal Biodiversity Net Gain Specialist, you will lead the delivery of Biodiversity Net Gain assessments and strategies across a diverse portfolio of projects. You will combine deep technical expertise with commercial awareness, project leadership, and client engagement, becoming a trusted advisor to clients and colleagues alike.

**Responsibilities**

- Technical Leadership:

- Lead and provide technical oversight of BNG assessments, statutory biodiversity metric calculations, and habitat condition assessments.

- Develop and review BNG strategies, technical reports, Habitat Management and Monitoring Plans (HMMPs), and planning documentation.

- Advise clients and project teams on legislation, policy, guidance, and ecological best practice.

- Project & Commercial Leadership:

- Manage projects and workstreams from inception through to delivery.

- Oversee programme, budget, resource planning, quality assurance, and risk management.

- Client & Business Development:

- Build long-term relationships as a trusted advisor to clients.

- Lead or contribute to proposals, tenders, and winning work.

- People & Culture:

- Mentor and support ecologists and BNG practitioners at varying career stages.

- Promote knowledge sharing and technical development across teams.

**Requirements**

- Degree in Ecology, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, or a related discipline.

- Significant experience delivering and leading Biodiversity Net Gain projects within consultancy, infrastructure, development, or environmental sectors.

- Strong working knowledge of statutory biodiversity metrics, UKHab habitat classification, habitat condition assessment, and biodiversity legislation.

**Benefits**

- The opportunity to work on nationally significant projects.

- A strong pipeline of biodiversity and nature recovery work.

- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

- Industry-leading multidisciplinary collaboration.

- Ongoing professional development and chartership support.

## Skills

### Required
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Ecology
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Management
- Statutory Biodiversity Metric
- UKHab habitat classification
- Habitat condition assessment
- Project management

### Nice to have
- GIS
- spatial analysis
- natural capital
- ecosystem services

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