Senior Consultant Natural Capital (Strategy)

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• Location flexible across NSW
• Unique opportunity in biodiversity offsetting rarely available in the market
• Exceptional culture

The company

Niche Environment and Heritage are an environmental and heritage consultancy business built on a purpose: to empower people to create a sustainable future. The team at Niche are passionate about doing work that matters, and this has a lasting and profound impact on their clients, communities and environment. They are a leading multidisciplinary environmental consultancy specialising in ecology and biodiversity, heritage management, natural capital, environmental management and approvals and environmental offsetting. Their 100+ strong team includes ecologists, botanists, archaeologists, environmental scientists and project managers.

The role

With one of the most advanced natural capital teams nationally, Niche are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Senior or Principal level Ecologist with experience in biodiversity offsetting to deliver diverse and interesting projects and mentor junior and mid-level consultants. In this role, you will lead projects across a diverse range of natural capital frameworks, from biodiversity offsetting, nature based land use strategies, biodiversity and carbon projects. You will identify environmental market opportunities, support portfolio targeting for natural capital outcomes and value generation for Niche’s corporate, government and landholder clients. Efficient and effective project management, compliance, technical quality, and delivery are key focus areas of this position.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Lead and deliver offset strategies under the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme.
• Lead and deliver natural capital assessments and advisory projects (e.g. Accounting for Nature, Commonwealth Nature Repair Market, TNFD).
• Support clients to understand, measure, and enhance their natural capital impacts and dependencies.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across a range of sectors, including government, agriculture, infrastructure, and resources.
• Prepare high-quality reports, proposals, and presentations.

About you

With a demonstrated track record of success in a consulting environment, you will have a thorough knowledge of the identification, ecology, and habitat requirements of flora and fauna across Australia.

You will possess:

• Strong knowledge and experience in biodiversity offsetting, natural capital, ecosystem services, biodiversity, or environmental accounting.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications; in ecology, biology, environmental science, environmental management, or similar.
• At least 7 years’ experience in a similar consulting role.
• Strong project management experience.
• Extensive experience undertaking ecological survey, and flora and/or fauna identification in NSW
• BAM accreditation otherwise demonstrated detailed knowledge of the BAM.
• Experience in preparing ecological reports such as impact assessments.
• Offsetting skills such as experience with TFD calculations, offset strategies, BSSAR’s, monitoring reports and management plans, preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and full Australian working rights

The rewards

This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced Ecologist looking to further their career within a vibrant, flexible and well-organised business that prides itself in caring for and supporting staff. Niche have an excellent culture, with a non-hierarchical structure, and trust their staff to make the right decisions to deliver projects from end to end. You will have the opportunity to work on a huge variety of projects ranging from renewable energy and associated transmission infrastructure, through to rail, road and water infrastructure. And they don’t just go from project to project, Niche empower their clients to think strategically from design to execution while ensuring they achieve the best possible outcomes for the project, people and nature.
Their lists of benefits are extensive: ranging from a generous yearly professional development allowance, company development support (such as BAM accreditation), substantial time-in-lieu policies to account for field work and being away from home, monthly and yearly social events to bring the company together, and an exceptional internal mentoring program.
If you want to work for a deeply values driven organisation who has evaluated and protected thousands of hectares of habitat across Australia including the first and the largest biodiversity stewardship site in NSW, we would love to hear from you!

How to Apply

Apply now by submitting your current CV (in Word format) via our online application process.
For a confidential discussion or to review the information pack and full PD please contact Liz Floyd on 0411 88 44 28 or via liz@talentnation.com.au
To be eligible to apply, you must have unrestricted rights to work in Australia.

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