Assistant / Graduate Ecologist

Brown & Co; St. Neots; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in St Neots is seeking a Graduate Ecologist to join their growing ecology team. The role focuses on delivering ecological consultancy work including Preliminary Ecological Appraisals and biodiversity assessments. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and demonstrate enthusiasm for ecology. This full-time position offers benefits such as a generous holiday scheme, life assurance, and a hybrid working policy.

Benefits

Generous holiday scheme starting at 25 days

Life Assurance of 4x your basic salary

Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave benefits

Holiday Buy Back Scheme

Long Service Awards

Health Cashplan

1 Volunteering Day for charity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant subject required.
• Enthusiasm for ecology with a desire to develop professionally.
• Excellent report writing skills suitable for technical write-up.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ecological consultancy work across rural and development projects.
• Participate in Preliminary Ecological Appraisals and biodiversity assessments.
• Support team directions in Natural Capital and conservation research.

Skills

Enthusiasm for ecology

Self-driven and motivated

Excellent report writing skills

Knowledge of UK and European wildlife legislation

Professional level of Microsoft software competence

Ability to travel for work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

We are seeking an early-career Graduate Ecologist to join a fast-paced and growing ecology team in our St Neots office. The role will build upon a growing workload across our nationwide client-base delivering for rural and development projects.

Joining the team means that from day one, you will take an active role in delivering ‘core’ consultancy work such as Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEA), Biodiversity Net Gain Assessments, and protected species surveys, (badger sett closures, great crested newt sampling, and reptile surveying etc.), as well as having the opportunity to be involved in exciting new team directions, such as Natural Capital and conservation research.

You will be encouraged and supported in developing key professional competencies such as survey design and methodologies, data handling, and technical write-up, as well as interpersonal communication skills, and basic commercial and business knowledge.

This role would suit an applicant that has been in the sector two years looking for the next step in their career.

Driving nature-positive change to address the challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change are core values of this role, the Ecology Team, and the Firm as a whole.

Requirements

• Enthusiasm for ecology
• Be self-driven and motivated, with personal career aims
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a relevant subject
• Excellent report writing skills suitable for technical scientific write-up
• Knowledge of UK and European wildlife and environmental legislation and policy
• Professional level of Microsoft software competence, including, Word, Outlook, and Excel
• Ability to travel for work

Finding the right people is important to us and transferrable skills are always welcome. We value potential and are open to candidates who may not have every listed skill.

Desired Qualifications & Skills

• Specialised ecology survey skills, such as ornithology
• FISC level 3 or above
• MoRPh accredited
• CSCS card

We are happy to support candidates in pursuing the above through appropriate guidance and development opportunities.

• A generous holiday scheme starting at 25 days holiday increasing by 1 day each year to 28 days after 3 years of service.
• Life Assurance of 4x your basic salary
• Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, adoption and shared parental leave benefits
• Holiday Buy Back Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Westfield Health Cashplan
• 1 Volunteering Day for your chosen charity each year.

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not tolerate discriminatory behaviour of any kind, in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Core working hours are Monday – Friday 9.00am – 17.30pm.

This is a temporary 12-month fixed term, full-time position based on 37.5 hours (Monday – Friday). We also operate a hybrid working policy.