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My client provides comprehensive commercial property advice both regionally and nationally to occupiers, developers, investors, and public sector organisations.They offer a full range of services, including agency, development, acquisition, property management, rating, planning, building surveying, project management, landlord and tenant, valuation, and property investment.They have a commercially focussed ecology consultancy team that supports clients through all stages of the development lifecycle. They support from the early stages of a scheme, from land promotion and early ecological constraints and biodiversity offsetting implications, identifying ecological risks and programming protected species surveys.
Your new roleThe role will include a variety of office and ecology fieldwork and provide you with the opportunity to develop new survey skills, undertake protected species surveys and a wide range of ecology-related tasks with support from a mentor, providing you with valuable consultancy experience.Day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Organising and conducting field surveys.
- Undertaking initial desk studies - gathering, reviewing and assessing existing ecological information.
- Developing in-field data collection techniques.
- Undertaking protected species surveys such as GCN, bat and badger surveys amongst others.
- Conducting botanical surveys and using the latest BNG metric.
What you'll need to succeed
- Experience in ecological consultancy
- Good report writing skills
- Knowledge of a wide range of ecological surveying techniques and methods
- Good project management skills
- Ability to liaise with clients effectively
- Excellent botanical skills and ideally a FISC qualification
- Level 1 or 2 bat license is desirable
- Level 1 GCN license is desirable
What you'll get in return
- Competitive salary: £28,000 - £45,000
- Car allowance
- Commitment to ongoing professional development; CPD budget
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Inclusion in company-paid Healthcare scheme
- Payment of professional membership fees
- Flexible working - 2 days in the office p/month and flexible hours
- Informal TOIL system available
What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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