Assistant Ecologist

The Ecology Consultancy was established in 1999 and is now one of the largest dedicated consultancies owned and run by ecologists in the country. We are passionate about what we do and our staff enjoy working in a friendly and supportive environment. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work, our ability to influence scheme design for the benefit of biodiversity and enjoy working closely with our clients’ design teams.

Our relaxed company character, investment in people and focus on business responsibility has seen continual annual growth, the past year being no different with staff numbers and turnover both increasing. We compete and succeed at all levels of the market, from managing the smallest local development to acting as lead consultants on nationally significant infrastructure projects including Crossrail 2, Thames Tideway Tunnel and continuing our management roles with HS2 and London Gateway Port. Recently we opened two new offices, and reviewed our management processes to improve their use specifically for ecologists,

We encourage continuing personal development and career progression and have invested heavily in our new employee-led, development, up-skilling and mentoring programme – The Orchard, which provides staff with a personalised roadmap for professional progression. The programme aims to enhance the employee’s work based and personal skills through a diverse range of structured opportunities, including e-learning, job sharing and shadowing, volunteering, training, and conferences and seminars; as well as ensuring that the services we provide remain of the highest industry standard.

The Ecology Consultancy and its staff also benefit from the strong relationship with our sister company Temple Group, specialists in EIA, noise, air, sustainability and planning. We have worked closely with Temple for over a decade and frequently share ideas, opportunities and resources.

The role

We are looking for a confident and positive minded team player to work on our large scale infrastructure projects across the country. The ideal candidate would have experience of a wide range of protected species surveys, as well as ecological clerk of works and ideally experience of mitigation projects.

The post is in our London team, however due to the nature of our projects the position comes with the possible opportunity to work out of either our London, Midlands or Northern offices and there will be a requirement to undertake such travel as is necessary to successfully carry out contracts. This will include overnight stays and, possibly, longer periods of working away from home.

Person specification

Essential

• An appropriate degree qualification;
• Experience of preliminary ecological appraisals and reptile, great crested newt and bat surveys;
• Ability to identify native herpetofauna to species, life stage;
• Be willing to work during evenings and at weekends;
• Have a full clean UK driving licence;
• Good data QA & report writing skills;

Desirable

• A great crested newt survey licence would be a distinct advantage;
• Experience with other species groups would be an advantage as would the ability to identify habitats and indicator plant species;
• Experience of mitigation sites;
• Experience of Ecological Clerk of Works;
• Bat sound analysis skills;
• A valid CSCS card
• CIEEM Graduate or Associate Membership.

What do we offer?

• Starting on a scale - £18,280.00 - £19,240.00 pa, plus London weighting, depending on experience;

• 25 days Annual leave;
• Access to our Company Share Scheme;
• Structured and generous career development the Orchard and training budget;
• Flextime, working from home and Time Off In Lieu
• Flexible location including working from variety of location if desired
• Auto enrolment pension scheme

Applications (Your CV and a covering letter) should be emailed to: joannak@ecologyconsultancy.co.uk or posted to The Ecology Consultancy, Tempus Wharf, 33a Bermondsey Wall West, London, SE16 4TQ

For more information on the company see: www.ecologyconsultancy.co.uk

The Ecology Consultancy aims to promote equality of opportunity, dignity and due respect for all employees and clients as is consistent with the company’s Equalities Policy.