Associate Director Ecology

Associate Director Ecology

Jacobs

Multiple Locations, United Kingdom

The role will include:

• Responsibility for setting the strategic direction of the team - join the management team for the wider terrestrial ecology team and business leadership responsibilities in the wider UK ecology group;
• Being the first point of contact - provision of high quality, expert advice to both clients and stakeholders;
• Extensive engagement - with clients, customers and environmental regulators;
• Support the growth, development and resilience of the team - through enthusiastic line management, empathic leadership and individuals’ personal development;
• Leading from the front - demonstrate your technical skills, contributing to Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitat Regulations Assessment, providing expert advice and managing the UK terrestrial ecology team;
• Develop networks across disciplines - many of our projects are complex in nature and you will be required to work with other disciplines to create effective solutions; Creating an environment accessible to other specialists is essential to our project success;
• Contribute to the identification, bidding and winning of work – working with the Water, Energy and Environment business unit Sales team. This will best leverage the capability of the team to win and deliver new and challenging work;
• Engagement with Jacobs wider corporate functions - to promote the capabilities of your team is an exciting component to the role, lifting our profile both internally and externally.

Here's what you'll need

• A background in terrestrial ecology with extensive years of relevant industry experience;
• Chartered membership of a professional body (or experience to obtain chartership);
• Confident to take on a mentor role to junior staff;
• Flexible approach to working, with occasional travel required across the UK and Ireland;
• A ‘hands on’ work ethic and good self-awareness;
• Ability to adapt to working on a wide range of projects;
• Innovative scoping of ecological input to projects;
• Working knowledge of protected species licensing and the Biodiversity Net Gain process;
• Understanding of project consenting and construction;
• Effective stakeholder and regulator engagement;
• Experience of planning inquiries and Examinations.

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