Sustainability Manager - Ecology

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery to unlock the potential in every project.

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We are a purpose-led organisation that places diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. Our responsible business practice group comprising 150+ people bring themselves to work each day to make a difference; to create a low carbon resilient world, shaping cities and building thriving communities, and helping our clients to realise their ambitions.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified ecologist experienced in delivering biodiversity net gain (BNG) to join Mace’s responsible business team. You will become part of our growing nature-based solutions team, delivering BNG and sustainable development on key consultancy projects across a range of sectors. You will support innovative and technically challenging low carbon projects, working with sustainable and pioneering clients looking to deliver at least +10% biodiversity net gain, technical ecology advice, nature-based solutions for climate change, and BREEAM outstanding on their projects.

This position is ideal for an individual with a profound understanding of BNG delivery and management, and a good knowledge of sustainability aligned with current and future trends in the built environment. We want the candidate to inspire, challenge, guide and help us to deliver our sector-leading sustainability targets outlined in our 2026 business priority, pursue a sustainable world.

• Supporting the project feasibility stage with involvement in early design layout with the design teams, applying the mitigation hierarchy principles so biodiversity is considered early.
• Management of the delivery of Phase 1 and UKHab surveys, species surveys, river condition assessments, preliminary ecological appraisals (PEA), ecological impact assessments (EcIA)/environmental statement and habitat regulations assessments (HRA). This will include supporting Mace colleagues with the commissioning of the above, including preparing technical scopes for sub-consultants and developing strong working relationships with them.
• Completion of the Defra’s biodiversity metric.
• Supporting the landscape architects with the delivery of urban greening factor (UGF) targets.
• Preparation of biodiversity gain plans.
• Support and lead stakeholder engagement for biodiversity offsets opportunities in conjunction with delivery partners, communications teams, sponsors, local authorities, and special interest groups. Engagement with off-site biodiversity unit providers. Where required, advising on biodiversity statutory credits.
• Work collaboratively with local authorities to share knowledge on biodiversity management.
• Supporting the delivery of natural capital and ecosystem service assessments including using the environmental benefits from nature tool and supporting the development of Mace’s natural capital reporting service offer.
• Supporting BREEAM assessment reporting.
• Perform GIS mapping.
• Working with landscape architects to deliver green infrastructure plans, nature-based solutions and biodiversity requirements.
• Technical assurance of ecology and biodiversity assessments and reports, landscape and ecological management plans (LEMP), Habitat management and monitoring plans (HMMP) and construction environmental management plans (CEMP).
• Support environmental and social appraisals (ESA) for the programme if required.
• Working with construct project teams to deliver best practice in terms of protecting and enhancing ecology and supporting them with specific ecology queries - translating technical requirements into layperson language to ensure all stakeholders understand…