Ecology Manager

at  Oxfordshire County Council

ABOUT US

Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre (TVERC) is the environmental records centre for Berkshire and Oxfordshire. TVERC is a partnership organisation between all twelve Local Authorities across Berkshire and Oxfordshire and the Environment Agency.
TVERC collects, manages, analyses and shares environmental data with a wide range of customers to enable evidence-based decision-making about the natural environment. People use our services to make sound decisions about how to develop and manage land sustainably, where to direct wildlife conservation work and for scientific education and research. See www.tverc.org.

ABOUT YOU

We are seeking a senior ecologist who understands the planning system and can demonstrate success in winning, planning and delivering a variety of environmental field and data projects. This includes experience of agreeing and managing the project budgets effectively.
Experience of working with a variety of partners and customers from the public, private and academic sectors would be helpful.
You can manage and develop a small multi-functional team; demonstrate a high level of professionalism and enjoy sharing your ecological and analytical expertise.
You identify and respond effectively to new opportunities to obtain and use data in the natural environment sector. Experience of Biodiversity Net Gain in development and Natural Capital Assessments would be useful.
Data and helping people use it successfully is our world. You are a competent and confident advanced user of GIS and Data Analysis software tools for analysing and presenting environmental data.
Finally, it is essential you can communicate effectively, within the team, with our stakeholders and community to deliver an excellent service to our customers.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Steve Wilkes (Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Director) on Steve.Wilkes@Oxfordshire.gov.uk

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Ecology Manager is a senior role within TVERC and works closely with the Director to help TVERC deliver its’ goals. This includes providing a high level of technical expertise to our organisation and stakeholders.
We need an experienced ecologist who can take charge of all TVERC’s project functions and successfully grow these activities in the coming years. You will build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders to conceive and secure agreements for ecological project work. Then make sure these are satisfactorily delivered within scope, budget, and time.
The Ecology Manager is responsible for managing the Biodiversity Projects team. This includes our Ecological Surveyors who run the Local Wildlife Sites projects and other field work alongside Projects Officers who focus more on data analysis project work. With your team you will manage all aspects of delivering a broad and varied programme of projects throughout their whole lifecycle.
The Environment Bill is one of various initiatives that are driving a growing use of information about our natural world to shape plans and policy. Opportunity Mapping, Biodiversity Net Gain and Natural Capital Accounting are important additional growth areas of work for TVERC. These are adding to our existing functions of monitoring and reporting the status of Biodiversity and Geodiversity in the two counties. You will be critical to help TVERC adapt to these opportunities extending our products and services to support the changing needs of our customers and communities.
Immediately, the Ecology Manager is key for TVERC to support Oxfordshire and Berkshire implement their Nature Recovery Strategies and handle Biodiversity Net Gain policy coming into effect. You have an important role to influence the delivery phases of both to ensure they are successful, well monitored and have a positive impact on the natural world.

It really is true that every single job role here contributes to bettering the lives of the people in our counties - we want to do this for our employees too.

• Culture of flexible working
• Technology to support agile working where role permits
• Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing developmen