Associate Director of Ecology

Job title: Associate Director of Ecology

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000

Location: Brighton

As a Principal or Associate Ecologist, are you looking for a new team leader role in Brighton? We are looking for an Associate Director in Brighton to join a carbon-neutral multidisciplinary consultancy.

As an Associate Director of Ecology, some of your main duties will be:

• Involvement with projects from due diligence and feasibility stages.
• Meeting the needs of local clients, with a focus on pre-planning protected species surveys, assessments and mitigation design.
• Post-planning works.
• Supporting the teams across different disciplines.

In turn you will recieve a competitive salary, pension contributions, hybrid working, overtime and many other benefits all part of a comprehensive package.

To be considered, you will need:

• Extensive commercial consultancy experience and have Full Membership of CIEEM and/or Chartered Ecologist status.
• Have experience of people and project management.
• Ability to lead and develop a local team and interface with the national team.
• Understand the Southwest market and opportunities for growth.
• Have a working knowledge of ecological legislation and the planning process in the UK.
• Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of ecological taxa, survey methods/ assessment types (including a working knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain and Ecological Impact Assessment) and protected species licencing.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the EIA and HRA process.
• Ideally Public Inquiry expert witness skills and experience.
• Experience in directing large scale survey programmes, digital data collection, and validation.
• Ideally have experience in both linear infrastructure and property development projects.
• General working knowledge of health and safety requirements, with specific reference to those associated with rail infrastructure work.
• Experience in a variety of planning mechanisms, including the Transport Works Order Act, Development Consent Orders, and the Town & Country Planning Acts.
• Be able to work autonomously with excellent communication (including technical report writing) skills and an ability to prepare fee proposals/tenders.
• Be able to provide pragmatic, commercially aware ecological advice to a portfolio of major clients
• Hold a full UK driving licence.

If you are interested in this or other roles in ecological consultancy, please contact Lloyd Key via or call . We have many more vacancies available on our website.

Please refer to www.penguinrecruitment.co.uk.

This is a permanent role.

Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position.