Principal Ecologist - Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy

WORCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST
£40,000 - £46,000 a year
Worcester, England
Full time
1 day ago
Closing date: Sunday 21 September 2025
Salary: £40,000 - £46,000 depending on experience
Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time
Location:

Lower Smite Farm,

Smite Hill
Hindlip
, Worcester & Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR3 8SZ
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to provide technical leadership within our consultancy, focusing on delivering and overseeing high quality ecological work.

Contact details

If you have any questions about the role before applying please contact the Consultancy Business Manager on 01905 754909 or email enquiries@worcestershirewildlifetrust.org

You will work closely with our team of ecologists, mentoring and supporting them to develop their skills whilst maintaining strong technical standards. You will also work alongside the Business Manager in supporting the development of the consultancy business, identifying opportunities for growth and implementing procedures to improve efficiency.

Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy has been delivering high quality ecological services to clients in Worcestershire and beyond for over 30 years. The work of the ecological consultancy team plays a vital role in delivering our vision of a wilder Worcestershire where there is more nature everywhere for everyone. The postholder will play a key role in delivering the Trust’s three strategic goals, set out in our strategy to 2030, which are:

  • Nature in recovery: 30% of land for nature by 2030.
  • Action for nature: one in four taking action for nature by 2030.
  • Sustaining our future: more diversity, more funding and carbon zero by 2030.

About You

  • A minimum of five years professional experience in ecological consultancy and educated to degree level in an ecological/environmental subject
  • A passion for wildlife conservation and practical ecological application
  • Excellent communication and report writing skills
  • Good time and project management skills
  • A wide understanding of ecological issues and a holder of multiple protected species licences
  • A full UK driving licence

Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy is part of a network of Wildlife Trust Consultancies. As such, we can draw on the expertise and experience of 20 other consultancy teams across the UK.

We’re Wild About Inclusion. To us, this means inspiring, empowering and engaging people from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and abilities, to change the natural world for the better. It also means cultivating inclusive workspaces that are free from discrimination, where differences are valued, everyone can be themselves and flourish, just like nature.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working – office at Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, Lower Smite Farm, Hindlip, Worcester, WR3 8SZ with regular travel within Worcestershire and occasionally further afield
  • Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme with Royal London. Employees sacrifice a minimum of 4% and the Trust then contributes an additional 8% plus the Employers National Insurance savings made due to the salary sacrifice element.
  • Annual leave entitlement of 33 days, including Bank Holidays, increasing by one day per three years of service to a maximum of 38 days.
  • Group Life Assurance policy worth three times annual salary.
  • Health Cash Plan and Wellbeing Services provided via HealthShield.
  • Contractual Sick Pay
  • This is a permanent full-time contract (35 hours per week)

Deadline: 21st September 2025
1st Interview: w/c 29th September 2025
2nd Interview: 7th – 8th October 2025


To apply please send a completed application form to enquiries@worcestershirewildlifetrust.org

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