Strategic Ecologist

Assist ship biodiversity enhancements at panorama scale and assist nature’s restoration
on the UK’s largest railway area

We’re in search of a senior advisor ecologist, with a big degree of utilized
expertise, who can deliver their strategic imaginative and prescient and ambition for optimistic change to make a
actual affect for nature on one of many UK’s largest transport networks. The function will steer and
implement biodiversity enhancements all through Community Rail Japanese Area’s 6,042 route miles.

This job provides the chance to work in a pleasant, collaborative environment, combining the
Wildlife Belief Consultancies and Community Rail groups, working collectively to have interaction with key
inside and exterior stakeholders and ship radical enhancements to biodiversity on the
area’s many and different trackside habitats. The profitable applicant may also have the
alternative to work with modern new applied sciences, together with information gathering instruments, tech and
GIS, to organise ecological info.

Daily, the Strategic Ecologists will work underneath the steering of the Wildlife Belief
Consultancies Mission Supervisor, main within the manufacturing of core challenge deliverables, with the
assist of Operational Ecologists. Initially within the first yr, they are going to collaborate to make sure
best-practice, consistency and sensible feasibility of deliverables throughout the routes. The
Strategic Ecologists will use their robust ecological data to steer the manufacturing of the
challenge staff’s outputs, together with;

• Biodiversity Stock for the lineside property
• Biodiversity Motion Plans with overarching aims for Routes
• Habitat Administration Plans to information how the aims might be put into apply
• Pilot improvement of implementation for future phases, together with monitoring programmes
• Supporting stakeholder engagement all through the area
• Supporting integration of plans into day-to-day working practices and requirements

Background

The Wildlife Belief Consultancies (WTCs) have been engaged by Community Rail to ship an
intensive Biodiversity Plan all through their Japanese Area, which runs from London to the
Scottish borders.

The work kinds a part of the implementation of Community Rail’s Nationwide Biodiversity Motion Plan
and related commitments;

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/sustainability/biodiversity-on-britains-railway

East Midlands Environmental Consultants (EMEC) are main the challenge, supported by 5 WTC’s,
of which Future Nature (FN) is one, chargeable for the Better London & Anglia route.

Working for the Wildlife Belief Consultancies

Let’s be sincere, not all ecological consultancies are the identical. On the WTC’s, we wish to do the
perfect for nature, and ALL our earnings are reinvested again into our respective
Wildlife Trusts, to assist conservation efforts straight on the bottom, in countryside and
communities, rural and concrete.

We additionally wish to do one of the best for our workers. We prioritise your work-home life steadiness by
providing versatile working preparations, and we decide to supporting you professionally by
our Private Improvement programme.

Advantages of working with us:

• Beneficiant annual depart entitlement with paid birthday depart, wellbeing days, pressing private
  enterprise depart and beneficiant occupational sick pay
• Versatile working to realize work-life steadiness
• Wage change pension with 7% employer contribution
• Studying & Improvement Programme for all
• Wellbeing initiatives together with certified Psychological Well being First Aiders, YuLife profit
  bundle – entry to our EAP, offering you with rapid and confidential assist for any work,
  well being, or life issues; 3x life assurance, on-line GP entry prescription service, quite a lot of
  reductions
• Wage sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electrical Car scheme
• A multi-disciplinary enterprise, with alternatives to work on a variety of initiatives,
  creating your expertise and expertise.
• Alternative to work on an enormous vary of initiatives, from excessive profile schemes with nationally
  important purchasers, by to smaller scale conservation-focused initiatives.
• An in depth-knit, pleasant, and supportive staff, together with assist out of your host WTC and
  Wildlife Belief.
• Household-friendly organisation with extremely robust work ethic and shared objectives for
  wildlife and other people.

We wish our individuals to be as numerous as nature, so we significantly
encourage purposes from people who find themselves underserved inside the
communities wherein we function. This contains individuals from seen
ethnic minority backgrounds, individuals with disabilities (together with these
who’re neurodivergent), the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, these from decrease
socio-economic backgrounds, and youthful individuals. We’re dedicated to
creating an organisation that recognises and really values particular person
variations and identities.