Overview

Associate Ecologist

Our Opportunity

Are you a Principal / Associate Ecologist looking for that next step within your career?

You will have the opportunity to benefit from an exciting and diverse workload, delivering high quality support for private and public-sector clients across the UK including exciting infrastructure and renewable energy projects. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Building long-lasting client relationships
• Generating and effectively managing new business with responsibility for financial planning and management
• Managing a wide and varied workload and supervising field staff and survey effort whilst demonstrating technical oversight and sign-off on project output
• Undertaking site surveys, carrying out ecological impact assessments as well as ecological mitigation design and implementation

Interested to find out more? We’d love to hear from you!

About You

• Full membership of CIEEM desirable 
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.
• Established Ecological Consultant with extensive project management experience and previous experience within a consultancy.
• Demonstrable experience in leading a team
• Experience in developing good client relationships to secure repeat business and gain new clients.  
• Experience within bat or other protected species (ornithological or botanical) is essential
• Ability to plan and undertake habitat surveys and to identify indicator plant species and habitat types.
• Full knowledge of UK and EU Wildlife Legislation and best practice survey techniques

About Us

Our nationwide multidisciplinary team of 650+ work collaboratively to deliver outstanding places and spaces that create lasting value for local communities. Through our remarkable history we have established the sound principles of success, and we have the vision and ambition to be even better.

We’re committed to creating sustainable communities where everyone feels safe, cared for and valued. We achieve that by encouraging a diverse, welcoming workplace for our people, clients and colleagues.

We care about our people and improving our society and that means supporting your ambitions and interests at every level. We will provide you with an inspiring environment in which you will be able to drive real progress and impact in your career. 

What we offer

Providing a balanced, enjoyable career is important to us, and we work hard to make sure everyone feels a valued part of our organisation. You will receive an attractive salary, and amongst other benefits you can also expect:

• Agile working
• 26 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays + option to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
• Private healthcare, life assurance and healthcare cash plan
• Professional subscriptions  
• Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
• Stakeholder pension

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Pick Everard is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us on our journey.

We are committed to building and nurturing great relationships with our agency partners. However, this role is being recruited for directly and therefore we are not seeking support at this time. Any unsolicited CV Introductions will not be accepted.

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