Biodiversity Net Gain Specialist in London

At Jacobs, we are seeking a passionate and knowledgeable Biodiversity Net Gain Specialist to lead the development and delivery of BNG strategies across our projects. This is a pivotal role in shaping our environmental impact, ensuring compliance with emerging legislation, and driving nature-positive outcomes.

We’re hiring nationwide, with opportunities available in our offices across Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Peterborough and Reading. Wherever you’re based, you’ll find a welcoming team and exciting projects waiting for you.

The role will include:

• Using your experience to lead on applying a biodiversity net gain approach to projects, including the use of biodiversity metrics and the design and delivery of net gain solutions.
• Working in multidisciplinary teams – quickly building rapport and trust to ensure that terrestrial ecology requirements are recognised, acknowledged and designed into projects to maximise outcomes for biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• Supporting and engaging with our Geospatial team to deliver innovative digital approaches to assessment.
• Ensuring quality standards by delivering assessments/reports through quality assurance protocols.
• Contributing to our broader Nature Positive offering, including natural capital and environmental net gain approaches.
• Leveraging your experience of biodiversity net gain to support other ecology deliverables such as Ecological Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulation Appraisals.
• Developing and sharing skills that build team and individual capability, including engagement with our global communities of practice, externally facing communications (conferences, presentations, client meetings) and training events.

What you’ll need:

• Detailed working knowledge of the biodiversity net gain approach, including the Defra Statutory Biodiversity Metric, and the underpinning policy and legislative drivers.
• Working knowledge of designing for biodiversity net gain including knowledge and experience of habitat restoration, enhancement and creation techniques.
• Technical reporting skills in cognisance of national legislation and guidance including experience of preparing habitat management and monitoring plans.
• Effective client, stakeholder and regulator engagement.
• Leadership skills in ecological input to projects.
• Understanding of project consenting and construction.
• Chartered membership of a professional body (or experience to obtain chartership).

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process, please contact the team. Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better.