Senior Environmental Economist

Do you have the drive and technical capability to work with us as a Senior Environmental Economist, delivering the future of AtkinsRéalis’ service offerings and capability in this area? The role will be a cornerstone within a respected technical team, and you will be responsible for maintaining and growing our reputation for technical excellence and working collaboratively to both win and deliver work across our extensive client portfolio. Role location: Epsom, Bristol, Peterborough, Oxford, Manchester, London, Glasgow and Birmingham.

AtkinsRéalis business is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, with over 50,000 employees worldwide. At AtkinsRéalis, we offer more than just a job. We offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment. Our friendly, collaborative and supportive working environment is a great space to further develop your technical skills, build your career, and work with great people with a shared purpose. 

You will be joining our Natural Capital team, part of our exciting and inclusive Environment practice, and the role will sit within our Water Management Consultancy business. We use state of the art approaches and our innovative in-house tools to assess and quantify the economic impact of environmental changes at various scales, from strategic to scheme level. We have a deep-rooted passion for protecting Natural Capital and supporting our clients in meeting pressing issues including flood risk, climate change and biodiversity loss. 

Our Natural Capital team offers a unique blend of skills, comprising experts in environmental economics, environmental science and spatial analysis, with an ambitious strategy for continuous innovation and expanding our capability. We enjoy working collaboratively with our colleagues across the company to deliver projects that bring about real change, drawing on experts from specialist teams such as biodiversity and air quality to deliver our work. 

We work for a broad spectrum of clients across the UK and overseas, including central and local government, utilities, regulators, the water industry, private estates, developers and NGOs. Many of our clients are highly ambitious about tackling the climate and biodiversity crises, with recent projects focusing on using nature-based solutions to deliver carbon net zero and introducing beavers as part of natural flood management on a rural estate. You will have the opportunity to work with and influence our clients directly, supporting them on tackling these important challenges. 

Responsibilities:

• You will play a central role in developing, contributing to, technical quality assurance and projects with a natural capital and environmental economics focus.
• You will also have the opportunity to support on flood risk economic appraisals, business cases, biodiversity net gain and carbon net zero themes on a wide variety of projects across the business.
• You will need to keep up to date with the rapidly developing field of natural capital and the application of evolving economic techniques.
• You will also have the opportunity to input to the development and refinement of new and existing digital tools that quantify and illustrate environmental impacts in a clear and visual way.
• You will contribute to business development and will be responsible for the successful delivery of key tasks on projects or on bids.
• This will include managing contributions from junior team members and will be focused on achieving and delivering technical excellence.
•  You will ideally have experience of undertaking flood risk management economic appraisals utilising the approaches set out in the Multi-Coloured Manual (MCM) and Handbook to develop HM Treasury compliant business cases. 

What We are looking for:

We are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious individual to join our Natural Capital and Environmental Economics team, contributing to a wide range of projects across the Environment business, including in water management, flood risk, climate adaptation, sustainable finance, nature-based carbon removals, habitat restoration, environmental planning, and designing future-ready cities. You will have the opportunity to work alongside award-winning national experts in natural capital, biodiversity net gain and nature-based solutions. Our current vacancy is for a Senior Consultant position in Epsom, Bristol, Peterborough, Oxford, Manchester, London, Glasgow or Birmingham, although consideration will be given to exceptional candidates in other locations. 

• You will be a Scientist or Economist, preferably chartered, who has demonstrable experience in environmental economics, through either a combination of academic training or on-the-job experience. Ideally, you will have experience in undertaking economic valuation using a variety of valuation methods to support decision-making. Some experience of multi-disciplinary project delivery is desirable, as environmental economics will often be an input into a wider project. 
• A degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Environmental Economics or Environmental Science and Policy) and preferably a relevant post-graduate qualification. 
• Ideally chartered environmentalist or chartered scientist or working towards it.  
• Competent project manager, with experience of winning work and technical leadership of projects. 

Why work for AtkinsRéalis? 

We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once, they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. 

Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. 

We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We're proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks. 

Security clearance: 

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance.  If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance. 

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. 

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