Senior Consultant - Ecology

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. **Minimum Academic Qualifications:** - You need to hold an appropriate academic qualification. The candidate should have a minimum qualification of Masters in Zoology/Ecology/Conservation Biology or any relevant environmental field. Preference would be given to Ph.D. holders. - Being a member to a Professional Body e.g., CIEEM or an equivalent organization would be beneficial (desirable). - Between 10-15 years of professional experience required. **Essential Experience:** - Experience in writing ecological reports and can contribute to the production of other ecological reports such as the scoping and baseline sections of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIAs) and biodiversity net gain reports. - Demonstrates understanding of and applies environmental legislation, policy and guidance. - Can identify a range of commonly found taxa/species associated with recognised broad habitat types, using keys and field identification guides. - Prior experience of ecological surveys/ species surveys and habitat assessments. - Understanding of UK or European bat species would be an asset or transferable knowledge from Indian species. - Basic environment assessment knowledge of UK EIA and Town Planning Regulations. - Takes responsibility for ensuring own adherence to biosecurity and health and safety protocols. - Excellent communicator. **Desirable skills:** - Experience of Ecological Consultancy or working within the field of conservation. - Confident working in a team with excellent attention to detail. - Project management skills for medium and large project. - Highly motivated with good communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team. - Advanced knowledge of ArcGIS/ bat analysis software would be an add-on. - Proficiency in foreign language would be beneficial. **Duties & Responsibilities:** Reporting to your line manager and team leader you will be accountable for the coordination and completion of assigned tasks and projects within the Business Unit or project team. As we operate in such a diverse marketplace, we are confident that you will gain experience of working on a wide and varied portfolio of projects which will enhance your skills and test your technical knowledge. We will ensure that we offer personal development which will allow you to progress your career and offer you the opportunity to be mentored by industry-recognised Technical Leaders in their field who will lend you their experience and ensure that the training you receive will give you the best possible chance of success. The role will require working with the team based in the UK. A highly organised individual is needed to work around the time difference and the restriction to remote communications. Strong collaborative communication skills are essential. Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to: - Managing ecological desk studies which comprise of requesting data from record centres in the UK, identify and analyse the designated sites/species present within the study area. These studies dictate where the field surveyors need to target detailed inspections and it informs the overall ecological assessment. - Undertake high level environmental constraints studies and MAGIC searches. - Collating data for production of preliminary ecological appraisal and assist with producing biodiversity strategies and other documents. - Assisting on a range of projects and assisting with bid production. - Undertake and assist with licence applications, including developing mitigation and monitoring. - Partake in training with respect to best practice and survey standards, as appropriate. - You lead the development of team training plans and make a major contribution to upskilling and training. - You review plans and budgets for medium-size and/ or complex tasks and monitor progress against these. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.