Ecologist

MacArthur Inexperienced specialises in offering ecology, ornithology and peat consultancy providers for renewables and grid initiatives. We’re devoted to serving to initiatives with essential advantages to nature succeed, while making a optimistic environmental legacy via our work.

Our staff has robust mixture of scientific, business and regulatory information and expertise. This ensures that we constantly ship top quality and pragmatic providers and recommendation.

We require an enthusiastic and gifted Ecologist to affix our staff to assist with protected
species (bat, otter, water vole, badger and so forth) and peat survey initiatives.

The Ecologist will present important assist to our pleasant ecology staff. The place shall be largely web site primarily based so you will need to love the good outdoor in all its splendour, and in all of the
parts. Lone working shall be required, so that you should be resourceful and content material to work alone.

The function will embrace:

• Supporting the sector employees in getting ready for survey work (car checks, entry, danger assessments, area survey sheets and figures).
• Ecology Surveys (bats, otter, water vole, badger, pine marten, pink squirrel and so forth).
• Supporting water high quality monitoring, peat depth and peat coring survey work.
• Information entry (Excel) and digitisation (QGIS).

The profitable candidate will meet the next standards:

• Diploma or equal expertise in an environmental area (e.g. Ecology, Zoology, Environmental Administration).
• Expertise of endeavor ecology area surveys.
• A ardour for ecology and the pure atmosphere.
• Robust interpersonal expertise and a versatile and proactive method to work.
• Robust IT expertise together with, MS Phrase and Excel.
• Legitimate UK driving licence (handbook is important, ideally 4×4 driving expertise).
• Willingness to journey and work away from dwelling.

Advantages

Employment Kind: 6 Months Mounted time period – April to September

Begin date: Early April

Wage: £25,500 every year

Holidays: 30 days professional rata

Pension contribution: 3% firm contribution (primarily based on you contributing the authorized minimal of 5%)

We commit time and useful resource to supporting and growing our staff. We provide strong coaching and profession improvement alternatives, month-to-month stroll and discuss catch ups together with your line supervisor, and annual value determinations. Relying in your ardour to progress and the time you will have out there, we’ll work with you to develop your specialism and useful sector information.

Submission is by CV and protecting letter to: [email protected]

Deadline: 29 March 2024

We reserve the precise to shut this emptiness early. Please submit your utility as quickly as doable.

A bit extra about us

Via the work we do and the best way we function, we goal to have a permanent optimistic
environmental legacy. We’re doing this in 3 ways: we solely work on initiatives which ship a
optimistic environmental affect, we assist analysis initiatives related to sustainable improvement
(we’ve part-funding six PhD college students) and we’ve planted our personal native woodland scheme in
Argyll (virtually 30,000 timber) which is a key part of our carbon acutely aware and biodiversity
optimistic enterprise mannequin.