Consultant Ecologist

As an Ecological Consultant with WSP, you’ll become part of a large, friendly, and diverse team where collaboration, learning and wellbeing sit at the centre of our culture.

Flexible working is one of our core benefits, helping you maintain a healthy balance between your work, personal life, family, and wellbeing. You’ll be supported by a strong knowledge sharing team, with access to peer support networks, specialist groups, and open collaboration across all experience levels.

You’ll have the chance to work alongside environmental specialists across the UK, broadening your experience through multidisciplinary learning and exposure to global expertise. With structured training, mentoring, and clear progression routes, you’ll have every opportunity to develop your technical ecological skills, grow your project management capabilities, and work towards protected species licences.

You’ll gain hands-on experience across a range of large-scale and complex projects, help to shape meaningful biodiversity outcomes and contribute to nature-positive solutions. With room for innovation in survey design, modelling, mitigation planning, and application of cutting edge ecological methods, you’ll be supported to explore and develop your strengths while making a real impact at landscape scale.

Above all, you’ll be part of a team with a strong sense of purpose and take pride in contributing to projects that deliver genuine environmental benefit.

You will be involved in the following activities: 

• Planning and undertaking ecology surveys including Preliminary Ecological Appraisals, and protected species surveys.

• Preparation of tenders and a range of ecological deliverables including; Preliminary Ecological Appraisals, protected species survey reports, method statements and management plans. 

• Conducting Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) assessments.

• Working closely with clients, project teams and GIS specialists

• Applying the mitigation hierarchy and contributing to designing mitigation, compensation and enhancement measures.

• Client liaison and project management. 

• Consultation and negotiation with regulators and stakeholders.

• Mentoring junior team members.

• Helping to nurture an enthusiastic, supportive, and productive working environment.

• Taking advantage of a generous training and career development budget to complete training (in-house and external).

What we are looking for you to demonstrate…

• An appropriate academic qualification and/or experience in a related discipline. 

• Membership of CIEEM (or working towards it)..

• Understanding of digital data collection tools (e.g., Coreo, Fieldmaps, Survey123).

• Professional experience within ecological consultancy or a regulatory environment.

• Knowledge of BNG principles and guidance, and experience of BNG assessments.

• Clear, accurate report-writing skills and ability to produce robust ecological assessments.

• Familiarity with relevant ecology policy and planning guidance.

• Strong communication skills, solution-focussed and proactive. 

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive team, so even if you’re not sure you match everything in our job description, we are still keen for you to make an application.