Principal Ecologists Norwich Salary Range : Competitive salary of circa 43k plus benefits City : Norwich Are you an experienced ecologist with a strong business acumen looking for a new challenge? As a dynamic and growing business, we are looking for a self motivated and positive minded Principal Ecologist to join our friendly team in our Norwich office. We can offer permanent and fixed term positions. The successful applicant would be involved in all areas of our work, managing a team of ecologists to find ecologically smart, commercially efficient and cost effective solutions for projects on a variety of scales. Day to day, you would be managing individual contracts and supporting staff, drafting high quality reports and reviewing technical work, whilst supporting clients and their design teams to identify solutions to their problems. We re keen to continue to grow our business, and you would therefore support the delivery of our business development strategy by costing and tendering for work, increasing invitations to bid, and finding new ways for the business to diversify and thrive. This role would provide you with an opportunity to gain exposure to a wide variety of interesting projects and clients and develop skills in all aspects of consultancy work. We would like to offer you the chance to help shape the future of our business as well as your own career. About Temple Temple is one of the UK s leading independent infrastructure and property consultancies, specialising in environment, planning and sustainability. We are a purpose and people led organisation and as a B Corp we are part of a movement committed to transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet With a team comprising many recognised industry leaders, we work with inspirational clients on their organisations, on their challenges and on exciting, innovative, complex and globally relevant projects, programmes and schemes. We provide a bespoke professional service to clients so that they can make the right decisions and achieve the best outcomes. We do this by leveraging our experience and breadth of skills alongside our insights, commitment, and ethical approach to everything we do. To be considered for the role, you will:
1. Hold an appropriate degree qualification;
2. Have a minimum of 8 years relevant work experience;
3. Have excellent knowledge of UK and European environmental legislation;
4. Have excellent fieldwork and report writing skills including protected species surveys, EPSM applications, ES chapters and ecological management plans;
5. Be able to critically review own output and possess a minimum 5 years experience in reviewing others work;
6. Be competent in the survey of and mitigation for 2 or more of the following key protected species: bats, badgers, breeding birds, dormouse, great creste