Principal Ecologist

Job description

Does working as an ecologist in Oxford, the City of dreaming spires, with its beautiful architecture, history and culture sound exciting? You will part of the Ecology Team for Oxford City Council, working with a Principal Ecologist in the Environmental Quality team, part of Environmental Sustainability.

Your primary responsibility will be to review and provide advice on ecological work undertaken in support of planning applications and consented developments within the city boundaries. You will assist Planning Officers by designing conditions to protect and enhance biodiversity for inclusion in planning decisions. 

A key element of this work will be ensuring planning applications comply with legislative biodiversity net gain requirements and providing advice internally on how to effectively secure and monitor biodiversity gains delivered through development.

You will also work on the production of a Biodiversity Strategy ...