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About the Role

The Senior Consultant – Nature and Environment will support the delivery and growth of ICF’s portfolio of work for Defra and its arm’s-length bodies, focusing on natural environment policy. This role requires a blend of strong project management and technical, research, and policy expertise to manage projects, contribute to technical delivery, and mobilize new work in areas like biodiversity and nature recovery.

Responsibilities

Contribute technical expertise to monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning projects in the natural environment field.
Support the design of evaluation questions, theories of change, monitoring frameworks, research methods, and evidence synthesis approaches.
Undertake and oversee qualitative and quantitative research, analysis, and reporting, ensuring outputs are robust, practical, and accessible to policy audiences.
Apply knowledge of UK environmental policy and delivery contexts to interpret evidence and develop useful conclusions and recommendations.
Provide technical review and quality assurance for the work of junior colleagues and delivery partners.
Manage a portfolio of small and medium-sized nature- and environment-related projects, overseeing delivery planning, resourcing, budgets, risks, quality, and client reporting.
Mobilize new projects quickly, establishing proportionate governance, clear roles, realistic workplans, and effective project controls.
Coordinate multidisciplinary ICF teams and delivery partners, ensuring integrated inputs and timely deadline adherence.
Monitor progress, dependencies, risks, and financial performance, taking corrective action as needed.
Maintain clear and constructive client relationships, provide concise progress updates, and manage changes to scope or delivery expectations.
Contribute to project plans and bids, including shaping methods, workplans, resourcing, and budgets.
Work flexibly across ICF’s environment portfolio, supporting priority projects and emerging client needs.
Help identify opportunities to retain and grow nature and environment work within ICF.
Support the development of reusable methods, tools, guidance, and learning across the team.
Coach junior staff, supporting their technical and project delivery development.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent professional experience in environmental policy, ecology, environmental science, social research, evaluation, economics, or a related discipline.
Relevant consulting, research, policy, or program delivery experience, with demonstrable responsibility for managing projects or substantial workstreams.
Knowledge of UK natural environment policy and delivery, such as biodiversity, nature recovery, protected sites, land management, or environmental monitoring.
Experience of monitoring, evaluation, applied research, or evidence-based policy work.
Strong project management skills, including planning, resourcing, risk management, budget oversight, and quality assurance.
Ability to contribute technically while maintaining oversight of delivery, commercial performance, and client requirements.
Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear client-ready outputs.
Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
Experience delivering work for Defra, its arm’s-length bodies, or other UK public-sector clients (desirable).
Experience of theory-based, process, impact, or value-for-money evaluation (desirable).
Knowledge of biodiversity targets, nature recovery, protected sites, or place-based environmental delivery (desirable).
Experience managing supplier or partner inputs within a consultancy delivery model (desirable).
Experience contributing to competitive proposals and developing costed workplans (desirable).
Delivery-focused, organized, and able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.
Collaborative and pragmatic, with the judgment to resolve issues directly or escalate appropriately.
Confident working with multidisciplinary teams, clients, and delivery partners.
Committed to quality, inclusion, learning, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Project management
Technical delivery
Research
Policy expertise
Natural environment policy
Biodiversity
Nature recovery
Protected sites
Environmental policy
Monitoring
Evaluation
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
Analysis
Reporting
UK environmental policy
Quality assurance
Budget management
Risk management
Client relationship management
Business development
Proposal writing
Team coordination
Communication skills
Analytical skills

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Degree or equivalent professional experience

Benefits

Hybrid working policy
Employee wellbeing hub
Competitive recognition program ('You Matter')
Single Private Medical Insurance cover
Dental insurance
Online GP service
25 days annual leave, plus UK bank holidays (increasing with service)
Pension scheme with 5% of salary employer contribution
Life assurance (4x annual salary)
Group Income Protection (66% of salary for up to 5 years)
Enhanced parental leave policies
Enhanced maternity pay
Enhanced paternity pay
Enhanced adoption pay
Enhanced shared parental pay

About the Company

Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day.
Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe.
We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth.
We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive.
We are committed to creating a culture where we embrace our differences in ideas and identities.
Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to creating a culture where we embrace our differences in ideas and identities.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews is not permitted.
If AI accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at candidateaccommodation@icf.com.
We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.