About the Role
Join our Natural Environment Team to help deliver the Council's biodiversity, climate adaptation and environmental priorities. As the Council's lead ecological resource, you will provide advice on biodiversity, habitat management, development projects and environmental initiatives, working across Planning, Parks, Highways, Housing and Transport. You will analyse ecological evidence, prepare reports, support project delivery, secure funding opportunities and work with residents and partners. You'll bring strong ecological knowledge, relevant qualifications or experience, excellent communication skills, and a collaborative, proactive approach to delivering positive environmental outcomes. Our mission is to be the best council. To do this we need the best people to help build our vision. If you’re looking to develop your career in a fast-paced, professional environment whilst making a difference, then we look forward to hearing from you.
Responsibilities
- Provide advice on biodiversity, habitat management, development projects and environmental initiatives.
- Work across Planning, Parks, Highways, Housing and Transport.
- Analyse ecological evidence.
- Prepare reports.
- Support project delivery.
- Secure funding opportunities.
- Work with residents and partners.
Requirements
- Strong ecological knowledge.
- Relevant qualifications or experience.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Collaborative, proactive approach to delivering positive environmental outcomes.
Location
- Hammersmith & Fulham Civic Campus, 1 Unity Square, London, W6 9JU
Work Type
- Permanent
- 36 hours per week
Salary/Compensations
- £44,937 - £47,925 per annum
Benefits
- Access to a comprehensive total reward package.
- Flexible working employer.
- Equitable access to opportunities.
About the Company
- At Hammersmith & Fulham, we are ambitious in reforming the council to ensure this is a place for everybody.
- Within the Environment Department, we offer a wide range of services to help make the borough an attractive place, one that is safe, clean and green and one in which our residents take pride.
- Our People Values: We are fair, caring, collaborators, and driven.
- We believe an inclusive workplace is about the visibility and representation of our local diverse community - it is about open and transparent decision making co-produced with staff and residents.
- It is about respect for diversity and a shared identity that seeks to encourage fair and transparent recruitment, retention, and career progression.
- We take a proactive approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion so that it is part of the fabric of the Council with a shared understanding of the role all colleagues play in realising the inclusivity of the workplace.
- Hammersmith & Fulham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
Equal Opportunity
- In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group.
- All sections of the population will have equitable access to jobs.
- No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.
