At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead ecology services on large-scale projects, ensuring compliance and delivering expert advice.
- Company: Award-winning consultancy known for bespoke landscape design and ecology services.
- Benefits: Competitive salary up to £60k, professional development, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Office-based with travel across the UK for project sites.
- Why this job: Join a team at the forefront of ecological innovation and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Degree in ecology, protected species licence, and five years of professional experience.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 60000 £ per year.
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. We typically work on large-scale projects, where landscape and ecology are central for our clients. Our success has been based on building long-term partnerships with our clients, ensuring that our services dovetail with their needs.
From our Newark and Edinburgh office bases, our practice offers a full range of landscape architectural, ecological and strategic management services across the UK and Ireland, including delivery of services through our conservation detection dog team. We lead design teams and contribute landscape and environmental services inputs to teams led by others, working on large scale, landscape focused projects.
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.
Main responsibilities:
- Client engagement – drive positive relationships further forward, building on existing strong links and developing new opportunities for growth.
- Informed project delivery – 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.
- Best practice – horizon scan for opportunities for service enhancement and ensure full compliance with legislation and industry standards.
- Multidisciplinary team working – bring confidence as a collaborator, leading in the co-ordination of integrated design and multi-disciplinary advice.
- Team development – take responsibility for continuing professional growth for yourself and our team aligned to business needs.
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 – knows 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.
The salary will be up to £60k.
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