# Consultant Ecologist

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: Basingstoke
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Join AECOM's dynamic Nature team as a Consultant Ecologist in Basingstoke, Cambridge, or Croydon, with a flexible hybrid working model. You'll work on various projects, including power and renewables, infrastructure, environment, and transport sectors, collaborating with other technical disciplines. Your tasks will include:

- Organising and carrying out desk studies and field-based habitat, botanical, protected, and non-native invasive species surveys

- Analysing, evaluating, interpreting, and presenting ecological data, including supporting production of Ecological Impact Assessments and designing mitigation strategies

- Safely delivering protected species and habitat surveys; analysing and evaluating results, impact assessments, and designing successful mitigation strategies

- Acting as an Ecological Clerk of Works on construction projects

The role requires:

- Experience in an ecology-related job role in the public and/or private sector, designing and coordinating field surveys

- Developing knowledge of UK and EC wildlife legislation and policy, and the Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA) process

- Experience in botanical identification, leading UK Habitat surveys, and/or protected species surveys

- Adaptable and flexible approach to work, with strong report writing skills

AECOM offers a range of core and personalised benefits, including career development opportunities, flexible hybrid working, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

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## Skills

### Required
- ecological surveys
- wildlife legislation
- botanical identification
- report writing

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