Nature Positive Graduate Consultant

Delivers biodiversity assessments and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) solutions for development projects, helping clients reduce biodiversity impacts and achieve positive outcomes for nature.

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. 

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

We value the things that make you unique. Ramboll’s Nordic heritage and founding aim, of improving conditions for people and nature, continue to guide our decision-making. As a foundation-owned multinational company, with 97.5% shares owned by the Ramboll Foundation, profits are reinvested into the company for the continued development of employees or used to fund research, charitable and humanitarian projects.  

Our commitment to be ‘The Partner for Sustainable Change’ and to act responsibly in everything that we do, means that you’ll be working on projects that make a positive difference to individuals, communities and the environment.  

Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll  

We have designed a training programme 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 work towards your professional development.  

The Early Careers Design Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to work on a project for one of our clients 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 this opportunity  

We invite you to bring your strong desire to make meaningful, positive change and your passion for biodiversity conservation into play as part of our dedicated Nature Positive Services team in the UK. You will be a key member of our team, delivering a range of biodiversity project work, including international Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), alongside our Nature Positive specialists.   

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 or equivalent qualification and be willing to develop your biodiversity conservation skills to assist in a range of biodiversity work.  

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 

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 sustainability agenda and Environmental Social Governance. 

Benefits you will enjoy:  

• Hybrid and flexible working  

• 27 days holiday per year and 8 days bank holiday  

• Professional subscription and support in becoming chartered  

• Range of employee benefits, such as cycle-to-work scheme, private medical insurance, discounted Taste card subscription, Gymflex and many more.