Associate Director of Ecology

Location: Bristol / Hybrid

Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 negotiable, according to skills and experience

Benefits

- Annual salary reviews.
- 26 days holiday per year, rising to 31 days with loyalty days, plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Fantastic training and development culture.
- Access to mentoring support from industry experts.
- Opportunity to play a key role in exciting and varied projects.
- ICE Training Agreement.
- Opportunity to be client facing and the chance to get involved with business development and marketing activities.

Summary

A leading international multi-disciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy, is currently recruiting for a National Service Line lead to head their Ecology team.

Role

This is an exciting opportunity for the chosen candidate to work within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team on a wide range of high-profile UK projects that include strategic residential and mixed-use development sites and infrastructure projects.
Their work involves early engagement at the due diligence or feasibility stage, with a focus on pre-planning protected species surveys, assessments and mitigation design through to post planning works.
With a requirement to meet the needs of their local clients and to support colleagues in other disciplines a key aspect to the role will include regular co-operation and inter-office working in line with Waterman's 'One Team' culture.
They are looking for the team leader to build on current successes to grow the team in order to take full advantage of the market opportunities.

Requirements and Skills

Candidates for the role will be degree qualified ecologists with a demonstrable track record in consultancy.

Candidates should:

- Have extensive consultancy experience and have Full Membership of CIEEM and/or Chartered Ecologist status.
- Have experience of people and project management.
- Ability to lead and develop a local team and interface with the national team.
- Understand the Southwest market and opportunities for growth.
- Have a working knowledge of ecological legislation and the planning process in the UK.
- Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of ecological taxa, survey methods/ assessment types (including a working knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain and Ecological Impact Assessment) and protected species licencing.
- Demonstrable knowledge of the EIA and HRA process.
- Ideally Public Inquiry expert witness skills and experience.
- Experience in directing large scale survey programmes, digital data collection, and validation.
- Experienced in financial management, business develop and marketing.
- Ideally have experience in both linear infrastructure and property development projects.
- Experience in a variety of planning mechanisms, including the Transport Works Order Act, Development Consent Orders, and the Town & Country Planning Acts.
- Be able to work autonomously with excellent communication (including technical report writing) skills and an ability to prepare fee proposals/tenders.
- Be able to provide pragmatic, commercially aware ecological advice to our portfolio of major clients.
- Hold a full UK driving licence.

To apply for this fantastic opportunity or for further information, get in touch.

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