Graduate Nature Positive Consultant Bristol 2024

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.

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.

Our Early Careers Programme

We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to support your professional development.
The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the early careers programme. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to travel around the UK and work on a project that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.

About the opportunity

As a Graduate Consultant, you will play an important part in one of the world’s leading environmental and health consultancies. We are trusted by our clients to manage their most challenging environmental, health and social issues. We help clients understand and manage the impacts of their activities, projects and products, so that they can respond to environmental, business, regulatory or legal challenges effectively and develop sound strategies for operating sustainably.

You will be part of our established and very successful UK Environment & Health team, getting involved with a diverse range of desk-based and site-based work. Previous education will be an important foundation, but your willingness to learn new environmental concepts and pick up new working practices quickly will really make the difference. It is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team of experts and build a successful career within the environmental consultancy sector.

Role description

We invite you to bring your strong desire to make meaningful, positive change and your passion for nature conservation into play in our Ecosystems Solutions Service Line. As a Graduate Nature Positive Consultant you can be based at any of our UK office locations. Depending on the role, you would undertake ecological surveys and produce high quality reports including habitat and species surveys, support the delivery of a range of biodiversity project work, alongside our Ecology, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and Marine Biology specialists or support the delivery of a range of project work with a broad environmental and sustainability remit founded in biology and ecosystems knowledge.

To succeed in this role, you must be willing to develop your ecological or conservation skills to assist in more complex work or to develop skills as part of our team delivering environmental net gain, biodiversity and natural capital, and nature-based solutions. You would ideally be a Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management or be eligible to qualify for membership at the appropriate grade. Nature Positive consultants would support with Corporate Biodiversity strategy and alignment with legal and voluntary requirements.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Undertake metric based biodiversity assessments to support Biodiversity Net Gain
• Supporting the Global Biodiversity team with Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN) and Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) deliverables
• Support the team with Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) assessments

The key deliverables for this role over the first 12-24 Months will be:

• Biodiversity Net Gain assessment
• Input into biodiversity centred development designs
• Assist the team with SBTN, TNFD and CSRD reporting

Your skills and experience

We believe your starting point for this role is a Bachelors or Masters’ level qualification in one or more of the following subjects:

• Biology, Ecology, Environmental Biology, Conservation Biology, Marine Biology, Aquatic Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Natural Capital or Ecological Economics

Additionally, we would expect you to:

• Have experience with IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook;
• Be numerically competent;
• Possess excellent English communication skills, both oral and written;
• Have excellent report writing skills; and
• Hold a full clean driving licence (by the point of employment)

We don’t expect you to know everything, but that you show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions to our clients in a professional and well-coordinated manner. Therefore, we believe you should have good communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits you will enjoy

• Hybrid & Flexible Working
• 27 days holiday per year + 8 days Bank Holiday
• Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
• Matched pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!

Selection process

We aim to respond to your application shortly after the deadline by the latest. There are several steps to our selection process. You will advance onto the next step if you are successfully shortlisted.

• Step 1: CV Screening
• Step 2: Screening telephone call
• Step 3: Assessment Centre. The assessment centre for this position will be held on Tuesday 5 December 2023. You may want to save the date in case you are selected to attend the assessment centre.

Ramboll in the United Kingdom

Ramboll is ranked a Top 10 consultant in the UK and has 1,500 employees working across 16 offices to apply their skills to deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health and Energy. We love seeing our colleagues develop and grow and you will have opportunities to work on innovative and inspiring projects within an environment that is friendly, open and collaborative.

How to apply

Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter. In a separate document, please address the following question:

Question 1. What are the main environmental challenges where you live, why they are important to you, and how you would help solve them? (max. 500 words)

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early.

We look forward to receiving your application.

An equal opportunity employer

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse work environment, where everyone can flourish and reach their potential.

We invite applications from candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please reach out to our recruitment team to discuss any adjustments that you might require during the application process.

We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when and how much you work. When you join Ramboll, you’ll have the freedom to work your hours flexibly and our positive approach to hybrid working will enable you to discover the split between home and office that works for you and your role.