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Ecologist
Job Posted: 2 days ago
Salary: £ 36,000 - 36,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: SR1, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Ecologist
To provide specialist ecological and management advice.To help meets its legislative requirements whilst also helping to conserve and enhance the biodiversity of the City.
Key responsibilities
* To ensure we meets statutory requirements in respect of biodiversity.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of planning and wildlife legislation, and update colleagues as necessary.
Key tasks
* Provide ecological advice to colleagues, developers, agents, and the wider public, and collaborate with statutory agencies on a wide range of biodiversity issues, from individual species to habitats.
* Assist and evaluate information submitted for planning applications and provide written comments on planning and other applications regarding biodiversity matters.
* Advise and assist enforcement teams where appropriate.
* Provide ecological advice and support on a range of council projects.
* Maintain up-to-date information on the Local Site designations using appropriate software, including periodic review in line with the most up-to-date criteria, and assist in the development of site management plans.
* Assist with the appointment and procurement of consultants to undertake ecological surveys to support planning documents, project work, licence applications and monitoring measures.
* Implement habitat management directly or through contract management.
* Assist with the provision of interpretation material and media.
* Assist with the production and presentation of reports to colleagues, councillors, outside organisations and the public on matters relating to biodiversity and ecology, including reports relating to the Biodiversity Duty.
* Undertake ecological surveys to support habitat creation and enhancement works.
* Liaise closely with the SCC Principal Ecologist and other Senior Officers and deputise for them in their absence as appropriate.
Other duties/specific policies
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The post holder must carry out their duties with full regard to the our Equal Opportunities Policy, Code of Conduct and all other Policies.
* The post holder must comply with the Health and safety rules and regulations and with Health and safety legislation.
* The post holder must comply with the principles of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to the management of records and information.
* To comply with the principles and requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR in relation to the management of records and information, and respect the privacy of personal information held.
Undertake any other duties and responsibilities appropriate and consistent with the objectives of the post.
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