Ecologist

Objective: To finish baseline habitat, species and Biodiversity Internet Acquire
surveys and reporting in Norfolk.

Accountable to: Rivers Ecology Staff Chief

Location: Workplace at Bayfield close to Holt. Visits throughout Norfolk, Cam and Ely
Ouse (CamEO) and probably additional afield. Within the first 12 months, work will primarily be in North
Norfolk.

Job time period: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Annual Depart Entitlement: 25 days plus 8 days financial institution holidays professional rata.

Wage particulars: Grade 3: £32,473-£33,540 (9% employer Pension Contribution)

Norfolk Rivers Belief’s ambition is to ship catchment-scale change to our water surroundings,
defending our watercourses from air pollution, bettering habitat and ecological functioning of
streams and rivers, and enhancing resilience to local weather change.

It’s an thrilling time for the Belief, having expanded to a group of 30 since its inception in
2011. We’re at the moment delivering main tasks akin to river re-meandering and floodplain
re-connections, offering farming and land administration recommendation, establishing new constructed
wetlands, reintroducing species, and fascinating with the neighborhood.

The Rivers Ecology group, comprised of six devoted members, undertakes consultancy work on
behalf of Norfolk Rivers Belief, with all income donated to the belief. With our workload on the
rise, we at the moment are looking for an organised, self-motivated and skilled ecologist to affix our
group.

The profitable applicant will primarily be finishing baseline habitat surveys to help
panorama restoration tasks. Moreover, they’ll undertake protected species surveys and
habitat assessments to contribute to the varied thrilling tasks underway at Norfolk Rivers
Belief and Rivers Ecology.

Job Description:

Principal Obligations:

• Conducting UKHab classification surveys and habitat situation assessments.
• Conducting River Situation Surveys (with a give attention to chalk streams).
• Report writing and producing habitat maps.
• Biodiversity Internet Acquire calculations.
• Aiding with different surveys (water vole, badger, electrofishing and many others.) as required.
• Tendering for brand new contracts with the help of the group chief.
• Every now and then, different duties as decided by Rivers Ecology/ Norfolk Rivers Belief
  administration.

Particular person Specification:

Training: 

• Minimal HND/BSc in Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Geography or different Land Administration
  associated topic.

Expertise and information:

Important:

• Clear dedication to imaginative and prescient and values of Norfolk Rivers Belief.
• Distinctive listening and communication expertise, with a confirmed potential to affect a number of
  stakeholders.
• Skill to construct and preserve relationships with companions and stakeholders.
• Good organisational and reporting expertise.
• Expertise of working in a multi-disciplinary organisation.
• Consciousness of the necessity for confidentiality and sensitivity.
• Full UK driving licence with personal automobile coated by enterprise insurance coverage is important.
• Expertise in endeavor habitat surveys and information of assigning habitat codes utilizing
  UKHab.
• Sensible expertise of Biodiversity Internet Acquire, together with conducting situation assessments
  utilizing the BNG situation evaluation sheets.
• Good botanical identification expertise.

Fascinating:

• GIS expertise (QGIS or ArcPro).
• River Situation Evaluation qualification.
• Subject Identification Expertise Certificates (FISC) Degree 3 or above.
• CIEEM membership.

Functions:

To use, please ship your accomplished Job Utility Kind, Equal Alternatives Monitoring
Data Kind and a masking letter/e-mail to [email protected] by Monday thirteenth Could at 5pm.

Interviews can be held the week commencing twentieth Could.

You probably have any questions concerning this position, please contact: Liam Corridor (Rivers Ecology Staff
Chief) on 07496 394545.