Ecology Officer

Job Reference: PECO0328
Beginning wage: Stage 7: £31,099 each year
Location: Primarily based in Castlewood, Clevedon
Contract: Everlasting – Full Time

In regards to the function

It’s a good time to affix North Somerset Council as one in every of our Ecologists.

North Somerset has a panorama of giant nature conservation worth, with a major variety of
designated websites together with: 4 Particular Areas of Conservation, 56 Websites of Particular Scientific
Curiosity, 2 Nationwide Nature Reserves, 13 Native Nature Reserves, the Mendip Hills Space of
Excellent Pure Magnificence and 204 Native Wildlife Websites.

Our imaginative and prescient is to be a greener Council and to reveal this we’ve declared an ecological
emergency, began to enhance biodiversity in our parks and open areas, and printed our
first inexperienced infrastructure technique. There are many thrilling areas to be concerned in and to
have a optimistic impression on how we handle ecology throughout North Somerset.

You can be becoming a member of a newly restructured Pure Setting staff serving to to ship actions
from our new bold inexperienced infrastructure technique. You should have all kinds of
alternatives together with main on recommendation for the rising Native Plan together with growing
supplementary planning steering, serving to introduce and ship biodiversity web acquire,
collaboration on nature restoration networks, wetland restoration, nature parks, participating with
colleagues throughout the West of England and being a part of a wide-ranging mission to raised
perceive and defend our higher horseshoe bats.

Our passionate Pure Setting Workforce delivers inexperienced infrastructure throughout North Somerset
by means of providers equivalent to parks and open areas, rights of manner, timber, flooding, ecology, and
panorama.

An area authority publish additionally has the advantages of a beneficiant pension scheme and vacation
allowance, agile and versatile working circumstances together with hybrid working, an Worker
Help Programme for workers well being and wellbeing and entry to schemes equivalent to wage
sacrifice. We additionally provide a relocation bundle.

About you

We’re in search of an ecologist who’s seeking to develop their expertise in an area authority
context and to additional develop their abilities and information to affect how we enhance North
Somerset’s ecology.

Additionally, you will have to reveal an understanding of ecological planning points and you’ll
have your personal caseload. Your work will embrace prioritising responses to planning purposes,
together with evaluation of Biodiversity Internet Acquire Plans, compiling studies, and offering planning
recommendation and advising colleagues on the Council’s main tasks.

You should have expertise in the same function, ideally inside an area authority, or maintain a
related qualification to stage 4 or above.

Legitimate driving licence and personal transport, or be capable to present different, appropriate methodology of
journey is a necessary situation for this function.

This place is at the moment based mostly at our Castlewood workplaces in Clevedon.

Please be suggested that this workplace shall be closed by 2025. Session is at the moment underway
to find out the brand new location for colleagues based mostly in Castlewood; This shall be at
Weston-super-Mare or inside North Somerset.

Need to know extra and apply?

For an off-the-cuff dialogue, please contact Esther Coffin-Smith, Pure Setting Supervisor on
07385 039453.

Cut-off date: 4 October 2023.

Anticipated interview date: Wednesday 11 October 2023

North Somerset Council is an equal alternatives employer. We welcome purposes from all
sections of our group no matter age, incapacity, intercourse, race, faith, perception, or sexual
orientation. North Somerset Council is dedicated to safeguarding and selling the welfare of
kids and younger folks and expects all employees and volunteers to share this dedication.

North Somerset Council – Open, Fairer, Greener.