Principal Ecologist
Location
Newark, United Kingdom
Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full Time
Experience
5+ years
Compensation
£60K per year
Posted
3d ago
Summary and responsibilities
Role overview
Summary
The Principal Ecologist will lead and develop Lanarca's ecology services, coordinating complex projects across the UK and Ireland. This role involves driving client relationships, ensuring best practice, and contributing to multidisciplinary teams while fostering team development and professional growth.
About you
We are working to deliver an exciting portfolio of long-term, landscape led projects across the UK. As we continue to grow, we are looking to expand our ecology team, bringing in a senior professional to lead and further develop our service. The successful applicant will be looking for an opportunity to work on ecologically complex, at scale projects, where landscape and ecology are both central to and shape project design and implementation.
The role will suit an innovator, keen to work at the cutting edge of sector practice and developments, delivering best-in-class services for our clients which reflect or set national best practice. You’ll also collaborate closely with our conservation detection dog service lead, and in turn, our trained dog team.
The post will be office based but the postholder should expect to spend considerable time on our projects sites, throughout the UK, as we support client portfolios with both planning stage and delivery stage projects.
Main responsibilities:
Client engagement – you’ll drive positive relationships further forward, building on existing strong links and developing new opportunities for growth
Informed project delivery – you’ll lead on the co-ordination of our ecology services across UK and Ireland project sites, ensuring compliance and providing commercially considered ecology advisory and leadership. You’ll devise and prepare reports, publications and client briefings a wide range of on ecology matters.
Best practice – never standing still, you’ll horizon scan for opportunities for service enhancement and ensure full compliance with legislation and industry standards
Multidisciplinary team working – you’ll bring confidence as a collaborator, leading in the co-ordination of integrated design and multi-disciplinary advice, always proportionate and commercially grounded
Team development – Taking responsibility for continuing professional growth for yourself and our team aligned to business needs, you’ll empower and support colleagues within the ecology team and across the wider business
Experience and qualifications:
Degree or relevant qualification in ecology or related field
Licence holding – one or more protected species licence
Post-graduate qualification in relevant discipline desirable
Track record of delivering complex projects
Five years or more professional practice experience
Full UK drivers’ licence and willingness to drive/travel
Personal attributes:
Excellent communicator – verbally and in writing
Detail oriented – you know when details matter
Well suited and adapted to working in a fast paced environment
Team player, adaptable and flexible – solution oriented
Able to manage multiple tasks across a variety of projects
Updated 3d ago
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Experience
5+ years
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Full Time
Contract duration
Permanent
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Compensation
£60K per year
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Company
Lanarca
Team size
Growing team
Location
Newark, United Kingdom
Lanarca is an established and award-winning consultancy company offering bespoke landscape design, ecology and management consulting services to a small portfolio of long-standing private sector clients. Our success has been based on building long-term partnerships with our clients, and we work hard to understand them to ensure that our services dovetail with their needs – often working as an extension to their internal teams. This has resulted in us securing long term commissions, many of which are of regional and national significance in our field.
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Principal Ecologist
Newark, United Kingdom • Full Time