Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment. You join us at an exciting time as we integrate biodiversity further into the Planning system and our delivery programme expands, creating landscape scale habitats on land for Biodiversity Net Gain, responding to the Council's Nature Emergency and developing a pipeline of investment opportunities as we lead the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Cheshire and Warrington. You will have excellent communication and problem-solving skills to work closely with other teams in the Council and achieve the best for biodiversity. In terms of field skills, FISC 3 or above is desirable, with working knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain and experience using Defra's statutory metric. Ideally you will hold Bat and/or GCN licenses to help supervise surveys and Council works affecting protected species. For an informal chat about this role please contact Laura Hughes by email at laura.hughes@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you! Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information. Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £12.60 per hour for all contracted hours. For any technical enquiries please email Sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk and quote job reference number in all correspondence.