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About the Role
This role involves combining technical expertise, analytical thinking, and innovation to support clients in making informed, sustainable decisions. You will contribute to an expanding area of work that is increasingly important to project delivery, policy, and long-term environmental performance.
Responsibilities
- Deliver and support natural capital and ecosystem services assessments for a wide range of projects in the UK and internationally.
- Apply knowledge of environmental economics and ecosystem service valuation to inform robust, evidence-based decisions.
- Use expertise in natural capital, ecosystem and ecological services assessment methods to help deliver innovative, high-quality outcomes for clients.
- Contribute to projects in a variety of locations, including potential opportunities to support assignments in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.
- Gather and analyse data using net gain metrics and recognised approaches from organisations such as the Environment Agency, Natural England, and UNEP.
- Provide environmental input to Strategic Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments to support sustainable decision-making.
- Help develop environmental net gain strategies for major projects and programmes.
- Use and help shape digital tools, dashboards, and GIS-based approaches that improve efficiency, insight, and innovation in assessment work.
- Support business growth by identifying opportunities to enhance services through digital innovation and smarter metric development.
- Help identify emerging opportunities in environmental monitoring and related areas of growth.
Requirements
- A degree in environmental science, ecology, geography, natural capital, or a closely related discipline.
- Experience of working in environmental consultancy, a regulatory body, academia, or a similar professional setting, with demonstrable transferable skills in natural capital, ecosystem services, environmental assessment, or related fields.
- A sound understanding of natural capital principles, ecosystem services, and their role in decision-making, environmental planning, sustainability, and nature-positive outcomes.
- Knowledge of relevant UK environmental legislation, policy and planning processes, and an understanding of how natural capital can inform appraisal, design, consenting, and strategic decision-making.
- Experience of preparing clear, accurate and concise technical outputs, such as natural capital assessments, ecosystem services appraisals, environmental reports, option appraisals, or related technical deliverables.
- Strong communication, collaboration and organisational skills, with the ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and manage competing priorities in a client-focused environment.
Skills
- Environmental economics
- Ecosystem service valuation
- Natural capital
- Ecosystem and ecological services assessment methods
- Net gain metrics
- Strategic Environmental Assessments
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- Environmental net gain strategies
- Digital tools
- Dashboards
- GIS-based approaches
- Environmental monitoring
- Data analysis
- Spatial data interpretation
Location
- UK-wide
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Demonstrable transferable skills in natural capital, ecosystem services, environmental assessment, or related fields
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject would be advantageous
- Membership of a relevant professional body such as IEMA, IES, CIEEM, CIWEM, or equivalent, or working towards chartership/professional accreditation
- Experience of applying natural capital approaches to infrastructure, water, transport, energy, planning, or land-use projects
- Experience in GIS or other geospatial and data-analysis tools
- Experience of environmental net gain, biodiversity net gain, ecosystem service mapping, carbon sequestration assessment, or opportunities and constraints mapping
- Commercial awareness, including contributing to bids, proposals, client discussions, or service development
- An interest in innovation, digital tools, and new approaches to environmental monitoring, scenario analysis, and decision-support
Education Level
- Degree in environmental science, ecology, geography, natural capital, or a closely related discipline
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject
Benefits
- Pension contributions matched between 4.5% and 7%
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x basic salary, with an option to increase to 6 x salary
- Income protection scheme providing financial benefit, absence and return to work support
- Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing
- Annual bonus schemes
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
- Health cash plan
- Access to Peppy for menopause support
- Variety of wellbeing support through comprehensive wellbeing program
- Ability to flex salary for health benefits
- Minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service
- Employee saving schemes and discounts
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
- Two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
- Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid
- Primary annual professional institution subscription
- Broad range of opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options
About the Company
- Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
- We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.
- Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do.
- With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
- Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.
- As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
- Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
- Environmental and social considerations are central to Mott MacDonald’s Purpose and its offerings across all sectors and territories.
- Our environment and social business provides essential services and innovative solutions which anticipate our clients' needs across all sectors.
Equal Opportunity
- We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
- We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.