Senior Consultant - International Biodiversity (Mid-Senior Level)

Overview

Advise corporates on biodiversity risk, assessments, and nature-positive strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• biodiversity strategy
• baseline surveys
• stakeholder workshops
• impact assessments
• lender standards
• mitigation hierarchy

Tasks

-Support corporates in developing biodiversity/nature-positive strategies that manage nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities at the site level up to the corporate-level. -Review and advise on biodiversity monitoring approaches and actions to achieve net positive impact. -Support the design and execution of biodiversity and ecosystem services baseline surveys, including the supervision subcontractors, management of health and safety and coordination of logistics. -Organise and participate in stakeholder meetings, interviews and workshops. -Work within a team to deliver Environmental Social Impact Assessments and Environmental Social Due Diligence services to private sector clients and financial institutions on global projects across sectors. -Interpret and apply financial lender standards on biodiversity and ecosystem services (e.g. IFC Performance Standard 6) in the development of ESIAs, as well as due diligence reports and action plans. -Advise on the implementation of the mitigation hierarchy, including through the design and review Biodiversity Management Plans, Biodiversity Action Plans, Critical Habitat Assessments and Biodiversity Offset Strategies. -Advise on appropriate biodiversity metrics for both project-level and portfolio (corporate) level use to measure changes to the state of nature.

Requirements

• lender standards
• data analysis
• 3 years
• english
• report writing
• bachelor's

What You Bring

-Experience applying lender standards (e.g. IFC PS6, EBRD PR6). -Technical data analysis and interpretation skills. -Approximately 3-years of consulting experience in a biodiversity or ecology role. -Fluency in English. -Solid report writing and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate to a wide set of stakeholders. -Bachelor's degree in ecology, biology or equivalent discipline.

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About Erm

-Flourished through merging UK and US consultancies, building a truly global footprint. -Has carried out major environmental assessments for projects like High Speed 1, HS2, Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines. -Works in sectors from mining, energy and chemicals to manufacturing, pharma, power, renewables, finance and TMT. -Combines strategic advisory and technical delivery, using digital tools and proprietary methodologies. -Notably led environmental impact assessments for cross-border hydroelectric, rail and oil infrastructure.

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