We are always interested to hear from qualified, experienced and highly motivated ecologists who would like to join our team.
We are currently recruiting for the following roles:
- Principal Ecologist (£45-50k, dependent on experience)
- Senior Ecologist (£35-£44k, dependent on experience); and
- Consultant Ecologist (£26-34k, dependent on experience).
From March 2025 we will be recruting for the following roles:
Both full time and part time roles are possible. In the winter, we are primarily home-based with 1 to 2 days per week office working with an office base in Cardiff. In the summer months (May-September) we are more office based (around 4 days per week). 100% home-working opportunities are also possible if you are not based locally.
We look forward to hearing from you!
During the survey season (April/May to September) we have opportunities for the following roles:
- Casual Bat Surveyors During May – September 2025
- Ecological summer internships (ideal for current students)
At Acer Ecology Ltd, we want to attract and keep the best people we can, which is why we offer all of our staff a highly desirable package, which includes:
Work/Life Balance
- Flexi and remote working options, including working around child/family care responsibilities or health conditions
- Time of in lieu (TOIL) accrual and rest policy
- A psychologically safe and collaborative working environment
- Average of no more than 2 ‘anti-social’ hours surveys per week where possible
- Restricted dusk surveys for consultant, senior and principal ecologists or those involved in protected species licensing, biodiversity net gain (BNG) or botanical specialists
- 28 days annual leave (inc. bank holidays), +1 day for your birthday and +3 days for Christmas
- Holiday accrual scheme for employees of more than 3, 5 and 10 years’ service
Financial Wellbeing
- Salary: as above, commensurate with experience and capability matrix
- Company pension scheme, with enhancement options
- Expenses advances and instant BACs for large expense sums
- Provision of all required PPE and other essential kit and materials
Personal and Workplace Wellbeing
- Work wellbeing action plans and monthly wellbeing check-ins
- Support from wellbeing champions
- Workplace assessments (risk assessments, Display Screen Equipment assessments)
- Enforced lunch breaks and fresh air breaks (company of office dogs, Peggy, Dorris or Louis optional)
We do not currently operate an employee assistance program or private healthcare, with family cover option or occupational health referals but these are things that we are looking into.
Professional Development
- TOIL for attending Glamorgan, Monmouthshire or Somerset Rare Plant group events, local bat, amphibian or dormouse events or other wildlife-related events
- In-house and collaborative learning opportunities
- Mentoring
- use of GROW model coaching to help you achieve work-related goals like report-writing skills, botanical competency or achieving protected species licences
- Appraisals
- Management training
- Personalised career path planning
Other Benefits
- Varied work portfolio
- Relaxed working environment
- Christmas meal and staff social events
- Free access to tea and coffee whilst in office
Career Progression
At Acer Ecology Ltd we want to provide assurance that you can progress your career with us. We will support you in setting objectives that align with your career aspirations and those of the company. We pledge to help you to develop the right skills, knowledge and attributes you may need to progress.
As such, we have developed a career progression framework that openly:
- defines the roles across our company;
- shows which roles you can work towards; and
- outlines what you must do to progress.
It is fully transparent, allowing you to understand not only what is expected for your next promotion, but the promotion after that too – plus the salary range associated with each post.
For more information please contact us on careers@acerecology.co.uk or by phone on 029 2065 0331.
For those looking to break into ecological consultancy we have written the following blog pages (part 1, part 2 and part 3) giving advice that you may find helpful.
No recruitment agencies, please.