Hiring: Senior or Associate Ecologist – BNG Specialist

Our team is growing, join us!

We are a boutique landscape studio, committed to the highest quality of landscape planning, design and the environment. Our work is stimulating and varied, from beautiful homes in the countryside to a wave park, to the regeneration of a contaminated historic rail yard site, to large strategic mixed use schemes including country parks.

This offers fantastic opportunities for you and your career, in a company that allows you the space to make your mark. We have previously worked with external BNG consultants/ecologists but are now bringing the role in house to be part of the team, to streamline the BNG process for our clients and to truly deliver value to nature and biodiversity within our projects.

We envisage you bringing energy, enthusiasm and attention to detail.  You are unafraid to confront the status quo & want to make your mark.

You will have five or more years’ experience across a broad range of assessments for habitats and protected species, and especially if you have the ability to author higher-level reports such as EPS licencing, HRA and ES chapters, including the production of Ecological Impact Assessments.

You will have a very strong grasp of the evolving developments in Biodiversity Net Gain and are confident using UK Habs. You will be familiar with best practice standards and legislative drivers that apply to UK habitats and species.  You will need to demonstrate that you have experience in undertaking BNG assessments, as well as on/off-site management plans and associated supporting documents to a very high standard.

You will have a specialism in Botany and be competent in the mitigation for one or more of the following species groups; bats, badgers, birds, dormice, great crested newts, reptiles, and water voles.

We are growing and we are looking for talented people who want to grow with us, those who can thrive in a culture which can be pressurised but also dynamic and progressive, and underpinned by quality and integrity, across our work and in our relationships, with each other, our clients, and co-consultants.

We offer a hybrid way of working and give all of our team the autonomy to manage their own work, but you also must enjoy being part of a collaborative team. And to ensure we keep that collaboration fresh; we ask that we have a full team presence in our office in Canterbury at least twice per month.

We pride ourselves on our respectful, inclusive and creative working environment. We value our team; you will be recognised, heard and appreciated.

Skills and personal talents we need:

  • A self-starter and able to use own initiative and be proactive when appropriate
  • Ability to work collaboratively and a supportive team player
  • Open to ideas and confident in putting your views forward
  • Hold Associate/Full membership of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)
  • Ability to produce well-written reports using a full range of IT
  • Be comfortable with and have experience in attending meetings and liaising with clients, contractors, sub-contractors and third-party stakeholders
  • Experience of client relationship building
  • A minimum 2 years’ experience of reviewing others’ work & be able to critically review your own work
  • Be eligible to work within the UK
  • Full clean driving licence

In return we offer:

A competitive salary, commensurate with experience, and the following additional benefits:

  • Flexible working – hybrid working & a family friendly culture
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays) plus a day off on your birthday.
  • Healthcare
  • Opportunities for career development and progression within EDLA with future opportunities to develop a growing ecology team and to lead this

Please get in touch with our Practice Manager Jo at office@edla.co.uk to find out more.

We look forward to meeting you.