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 flexible working arrangements to balance work and personal life, and access to peer support networks, specialist groups, and cross-experience level collaboration.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Planning and undertaking ecology surveys, including Preliminary Ecological Appraisals and protected species surveys.
- Preparing tenders and ecological deliverables, such as Preliminary Ecological Appraisals, protected species survey reports, method statements, and management plans.
- Conducting Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) assessments.
- Working with clients, project teams, and GIS specialists.
- Applying the mitigation hierarchy and contributing to designing mitigation, compensation, and enhancement measures.
- Client liaison and project management.
- Consultation and negotiation with regulators and stakeholders.
- Mentoring junior team members.
- Helping to create an enthusiastic, supportive, and productive working environment.
- Utilising a generous training and career development budget for in-house and external training.
The ideal candidate will have:
- 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.
You will be supported to develop your technical ecological skills, grow your project management capabilities, and work towards protected species licences.