Key Responsibilities
You will use your experience and skills to provide comprehensive, evidence based environmental advice on decisions for nationally significant infrastructure projects, which are subject to tight statutory deadlines.
You will advise Ministers and senior officials of the environmental impacts of offshore and onshore energy development applications and will provide specialist input into policy decisions affecting the future of the UK energy infrastructure planning regime.
This is a lively and fast paced post requiring professional expertise, strong influencing skills and an ability to deliver robust advice, whilst handling competing priorities.
You will work as a collaborative and supportive team member to deliver DESNZ requirements whilst providing mutual support to other team members to manage workloads, discuss issues, share knowledge and experience etc.
Who are we looking for? We want to hear from you if you can:
• Assess complex, technical and often conflicting environmental information to advise on the nature and level of environmental risk associated with consenting energy infrastructure applications.
• Write Habitat Regulations Assessments for nationally significant energy infrastructure projects.
• Provide advice to tight statutory time scales on the environmental impacts of all types of nationally significant energy infrastructure projects and fulfilling statutory obligations under the Habitats Regulations.
Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
• A relevant environmental sciences undergraduate degree.
• Relevant experience of writing, reviewing or responding to Habitats Regulations Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments and a proven ability to interpret complex environmental information
Desirable criteria
• A background or interest in a technical environmental specialism such as landscape & visual assessment, land quality, water, noise, air quality, human health etc.
• Membership to a relevant professional body.
