Graduate Consultant - Nature Services

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at ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation‑owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company.

This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'the partner for sustainable change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.

please note – ramboll cannot sponsor any post‑study or skilled worker visas for our early career roles, as the home office’s eligibility criteria would not be met. You must have the right to live and work in the uk.

please ensure you have fully completed your application, including answering the question in the 'how to apply' section. Any incomplete applications will automatically be rejected.

you will join our nature positive services department and be part of a global biodiversity community.

as our new nature positive graduate consultant you will be part of a friendly, progressive team of biodiversity specialists; part of a larger team of scientists working within the global biodiversity & ecosystem service line. In the first instance, you will work on international bng projects, undertaking assessments, reporting, inputting to biodiversity mitigation design and liaising with relevant stakeholders. You will also have the opportunity to develop your biodiversity skills to assist in delivering more strategic biodiversity work in the uk and across europe, the middle east, the americas and africa, supporting our international biodiversity work.

ramboll employees work as a global team - we regularly collaborate with sustainability, landscape and engineering colleagues across the globe to bring the best minds together to deliver bespoke, innovative nature positive solutions for our clients. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and expanding business area delivering on key projects and to further develop a variety of skills and build a successful career within the fast‑growing biodiversity consultancy sector.

your key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• undertake bng assessments on a range of development projects, including energy, data centres, transport, mining, in addition to bng for operational site portfolios.
• liaise with ecologists, gis and landscape specialists to acquire biodiversity data required for bng assessments.
• undertake technical bng analysis and provide recommendations to minimise biodiversity impacts and maximise outputs.
• produce clear and concise written reports.
• carry out such additional duties as may reasonably be required in this role.

this role is available in either london, exeter, birmingham or edinburgh.

to succeed in this role, you should have an understanding of nature positive, ramboll’s biodiversity metrics, and an interest in assessing and delivering bng on a range of projects. You must have an appropriate bsc such as biology, ecology, environmental biology, conservation biology, aquatic ecology, ecosystem services, natural capital or ecological economics or equivalent qualification and be willing to develop your biodiversity conservation skills to assist in a range of biodiversity work.

personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include: a focussed conservation biologist with an ability to think innovatively to develop solutions that work for clients and nature; good team worker; demonstrate attention to detail and a high level of accuracy; self‑motivated, reliable and dedicated individual; commitment to developing a range of biodiversity skills and expanding your knowledge and capabilities in this field;

interest in the wider…