Biodiversity Net Gain Specialist (UK wide)

Overview

Lead development and delivery of biodiversity net gain strategies across projects.

Key Responsibilities

• quality assurance
• geospatial tools
• net gain
• biodiversity metrics
• team collaboration
• client engagement

Tasks

-🌍 Employee Networks & Communities of Practice – connect with over 200 ecologists in the UK & Ireland, and 600+ globally -Ensuring quality standards by delivering assessments / reports through quality assurance protocols -Leveraging your experience of biodiversity net gain to support other ecology deliverables such as Ecological Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulation Appraisals -Supporting and engaging with our Geospatial team to deliver innovative digital approaches to assessment -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 -Developing and sharing skills that build team and individual capability. This will include engagement with our global communities of practice, externally facing communications (conferences, presentations, client meetings) and training events

Requirements

• technical reporting
• stakeholder engagement
• chartered membership
• biodiversity metric
• leadership
• project consenting

What You Bring

-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 -Chartered membership of a professional body (or experience to obtain chartership) -Working knowledge of designing for biodiversity net gain including knowledge and experience of habitat restoration, enhancement and creation techniques -Leadership skills in ecological input to projects -Understanding of project consenting and construction -Detailed working knowledge of the biodiversity net gain approach, including the Defra Statutory Biodiversity Metric, and the underpinning policy and legislative drivers

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Benefits

-🌍 Global Career Framework – chart your path with clarity and purpose -🎓 Chartership Academy Programme – support to achieve professional accreditation

About Jacobs

-Headquartered in Dallas, it has evolved into a global powerhouse delivering consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery services. -Its portfolio spans transformative projects—clean water systems, data centers, rail expansions, offshore wind roadmaps, and wastewater plants. -Specialising in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, national security & defense, life sciences, transportation and water sectors. -Jacobs has reshaped itself via key moves—spinning off government services, acquiring CH2M in 2017, and exiting traditional oil & gas units. -Projects often tackle high-stakes, complex challenges: wastewater treatment in Vancouver, LIRR station upgrades, and AI data centres in Portugal. -Unusually, the firm shifted its HQ from California to Dallas in 2016 to align with its expanding national and global reach.

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