Overview

Job Title – Senior Ecologist
Reference Number – 12795
Salary – Competitive
Location(s) – London or Guildford
Contract Type – Permanent

Want to work in a progressive team? Looking for a varied workload? Ambitious and capable…?
As a consultancy of approximately 1,600 staff, we are large enough to work on high-profile
schemes in the South East region including Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital, The Pirbright Institute,
Brookfield residential scheme and the team has a strong track record locally – including award
winning schemes such as Cliffe Pools. We also deliver smaller schemes to give you a wide variety
of work across all sectors.

While we have introduced methods for maximising quality and consistency across WYG, we have
adapted these to suit the ecologists, allowing us to react quickly (important given the seasonality of
our work) and to allow team members to make decisions about their own projects with timely
support from the senior management team.

We are looking for a Senior Ecologist who has experience of projects across a diversity of sectors,
with the confidence to liaise directly with both clients and stakeholders. Strong general technical
skills are a must, with a technical speciality highly desirable – those with ornithological expertise in
particular are encouraged to apply. We are keen to continue to grow the team and some
enthusiasm to support our business development strategy would also be beneficial.

We also understand how ecologists think and work and have introduced ecology-specific
measures to allow the team to fulfil their potential:

• With over 60 permanent ecologists across 12 offices, we work hard to operate as one
cohesive team to minimise time away from home, maximise bespoke training and support from
our in-house experts regardless of location, and to allow the best people to work on the projects
that interest them and deliver them to the highest standards.
• We encourage the development of well-rounded ecologists who can talk about all
stages of a project rather than a niche area. We don’t automatically pigeon-hole ecologists and
instead encourage diversification of skills and the passing on of knowledge to fellow ecologists.
We recently held our annual all-ecology get-together over two days where our in-house experts
provided training, licensing and technology updates to help us all operate to the same standards
• Given that all grades of ecologist complete site visits and meetings, we provide cars or
car allowances to every member of the team, including for personal use.
• Our bat handling licence incentivisation scheme thanks those ecologists who spend
time and effort in achieving their licence – we know it’s not easy! And to show our support of
personal development, we award a significant financial bonus to anyone achieving Chartered
Environmentalist status through CIEEM.
• We work closely with many other WYG teams, including Planners, Archaeologists,
Landscape Architects, Masterplanners and Engineers. With a culture of openness, there is always
someone within the business who can provide advice and support for almost any query.

• We also have an established TOIL system which allows ecologists to manage their time
to suit their specific personal needs, alongside the seasonal demands of the role.

If the timing’s not quite right for you, please do still to get in touch as we will always consider
bespoke working arrangements or a deferred start date to attract good people.