Senior Rural Area Ecologist

We achieve our goals by enabling everyone to get the best out of themselves. We believe that everyone's contribution matters. That is why we pioneer with an approach based on your skills and build a 'Skills Powered Organisation'. With your unique experience and expertise, you will map out your own career path. Together we maximize impact! Your work makes the difference. Whatever role you play, you help provide sustainable solutions for a healthier planet. Leave your mark on your career, your colleagues, clients, your life, and the world around you. On our website, you can read the blogs of Arcadians to find out how we do this.

Arcadis offers you a position with a lot of freedom to independently shape your work in an ambitious and driven team. In addition to a great work culture, we have also included excellent employment conditions, including:

• 30 days of leave with full-time employment, with the possibility to buy or sell extra days.
• Employees may use the NS business card for private use free of charge.
• Additional arrangements regarding partner parental leave and paid parental leave.
• Possibility for hybrid working, facilitated by an appropriate home office allowance and a professionally equipped workspace at home.
• Good pension scheme with the Dutch Pension Fund (HNPF), where Arcadis pays the largest part of the premium.
• Opportunities to follow courses and training, access to our extensive Arcadis Learning Experience Platform (LXP).

Arcadis is the global partner at the forefront of the most impactful projects of our time. We help our clients make sustainable choices through the combination of digital innovation, expertise, and future-oriented skills in areas such as environment, energy, water, buildings, transport, and infrastructure. We take that extra step to offer our clients tailored solutions for design, engineering, and consultancy. By utilizing data-driven insights, we shape the natural and built environment together.

With more than 34,000 people, we pool global expertise and tackle challenges such as climate, affordable energy, and livable cities together. We improve quality of life through our presence in more than 30 countries.

As a Senior Rural Area Ecologist, you combine your ecological expertise with strategic insight and a sharp eye for laws and regulations. Together with a dedicated team of ecologists, you work on challenging projects that strengthen biodiversity and contribute to a sustainable and resilient rural area. You advise leading clients such as provinces, Rijkswaterstaat, water boards, and grid operators on Natura 2000, nitrogen, NNN, and nature development. In doing so, you also focus on collaboration with junior and medior colleagues and take responsibility for knowledge transfer and quality assurance.

In short, you safeguard the balance between nature, economy, and policy.

• Leading and advising within complex landscape ecological issues, including quality assurance when drafting management plans, nature goal analyses, preliminary assessments, appropriate assessments, EIAs, and LESAs.
• Coaching and guiding, as well as transferring knowledge to, younger colleagues within the team.
• Strategically advising on nitrogen, biodiversity opportunities, and the sustainable design of the rural area, particularly Natura 2000 and NNN.
• Integrating and testing ecological knowledge against nature legislation and economic interests in clear, applicable advice.
• Proactively following developments in nature policy and legislation and translating these into opportunities for our clients and projects.
• Relationship management and active contribution to acquisition and the further expansion of our project portfolio.
• Knowledge sharing within the Nature & Biodiversity Advisory Group and contributing to the further professionalization of the Rural Area team.

About the Advisory Group and the Team:

You will be working in an enthusiastic team of 14 ecologists with a passion for the rural area. Through our advice and assessments, we work on nature conservation and development of, for example, Natura 2000 areas and the NNN. We work closely together in an open, collegial, and professional environment where development and collaboration are central.

The Rural Area team is one of the four teams in the Nature & Biodiversity Advisory Group, where approximately 60 driven ecologists work together on future-proof solutions for nature and landscape. Biodiversity is one of the five pillars within our sustainability strategy, through which we make an impact for our clients and society. We encounter each other within larger projects, but also through knowledge meetings and social activities.