Nature Officer

Nature Officer – SSEN Transmission

Base location:
Scotland (Perth, Inverness or Aberdeen). Salary: £35,200 – £52,800 plus car allowance, performance bonus, and a range of benefits. Working pattern:
Permanent, Full Time, Flexible – first options available.

• Work with other members of the Consents & Environment Team and external stakeholders to ensure projects deliver against business and regulatory targets relating to Biodiversity Net Gain, irreplaceable habitats and nature‑based solutions.
• Provide quality assurance and control for technical biodiversity net gain documentation to aid planning consent documentation and the delivery of strategic targets.
• Design, establish and deliver new processes and ways of working to secure irreplaceable habitat and strategic biodiversity enhancement sites meeting business and regulatory targets.
• Offer technical input, guidance and support to all business units on habitat enhancement project requirements.
• Provide technical expertise on project site visits to provide initial habitat assessments to advise on suitability of projects for Biodiversity Net Gain and irreplaceable habitat delivery.

• Knowledge of habitat classification (particularly UKHab), surveys, assessment and ecological management for conservation, restoration, protection, and enhancement.
• Knowledge of biodiversity metric approaches for assessing biodiversity value of sites and emerging policy, best practice and guidance for applying Biodiversity Net Gain reporting.
• Ability to build and foster excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders to engage, influence and negotiate to ensure SSEN is a sector leader in off‑site habitat enhancement.
• Experience of data analysis, quality assurance, and peer reviewing.
• Experience delivering and monitoring habitat enhancement projects.

SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland, transporting energy from where it is generated to where it is needed. We are upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy and creating a network for net zero to provide secure power for future generations.

Flexible benefits including discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships, wellbeing benefits such as free online GP and 24/7 counselling service, interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, and a Cycle to Work scheme. Generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

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