Are you an experienced ecologist who loves to share your knowledge and experiences to promote data driven decision making? Do you enjoy working with clients to scope, win and deliver ecological project work?
Have you the skills to ensure your team complete all aspects of both field and data-based project delivery successfully?
Would you like to join us in a senior position, leading the projects team, growing this side of our work, and ensuring Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre (TVERC) delivers a wide variety of interesting and valuable projects for our clients, community and the natural environments of Berkshire and Oxfordshire?
About the Role
The Ecology Manager is a senior role within TVERC and works closely with the Director to help TVERC deliver its’ goals.
We need an experienced ecologist who can take charge of all TVERC’s project functions and successfully grow these activities in the coming years. You will build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders to conceive and secure agreements for ecological project work.
The Ecology Manager is responsible for managing the Biodiversity Projects team. This includes our Ecological Surveyors who run the Local Wildlife Sites projects and other field work alongside Projects Officers who focus more on data analysis project work.
About you
We are seeking a senior ecologist who understands the planning system and can demonstrate success in winning, planning and delivering a variety of environmental field and data projects. This includes experience of agreeing and managing the project budgets effectively.
Experience of working with a variety of partners and customers from the public, private and academic sectors would be helpful.
Rewards and benefits
It really is true that every single job role here contributes to bettering the lives of the people in our counties – we want to do this for our employees too.
- Culture of flexible working
- Technology to support agile working where role permits
- Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
- Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
- Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
- Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
- Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development
Would you like to know more?
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Steve Wilkes (Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Director) on Steve.Wilkes@Oxfordshire.gov.uk