Natural Capital Consultant
Role Overview
Natural capital is changing how land is managed in the UK. Our specialist team offer expert market insight into the emergence of private natural capital markets and assessment of the land and its potential, all underpinned by natural capital thinking.We’re looking to grow the team further by recruiting a senior consultant who understands rural land management and rural businesses and is passionate about leveraging new nature based markets.
- You will have excellent people management skills. You will maintain senior client relationships, support two associate level colleagues and build relationships with the wider Savills business.
- You will be technically excellent in nature markets, land assessment and landscape scale deployment. You’ll be able to demonstrate these skills verbally and in written form and be able to support your arguments with data, financial budgets and policy analysis. Specifically you will understand natural capital assessments and baselines, carbon management, peatland restoration, afforestation regenerative agriculture, compliance and voluntary biodiversity markets and green finance.
- You will maintain Savills profile in the natural capital space both internally and externally through delivering short presentations, responding to tenders and be a first port of call to potential new clients.
- You will have a proven record of delivery, meeting deadlines, communicating efficiently and being part of a team.
Role location is flexible but Edinburgh if preferred. Part time working would be considered.
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What we offer you:
- Career and Professional Development
- 25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Scheme
- Virtual GP
- Global Mobility Scheme
- Rewards Platform
- Company Pension Scheme
- Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave
Find out more about Savills offer
Team Overview
Savills natural capital team comprises a strategic ecologist, environmental scientists, rural chartered surveyors and farm business consultants. We bring experience in developing natural capital opportunities across the UK, a strong network of land management advisers, experience appraising landscape-scale opportunities for natural capital (including but not limited to carbon, biodiversity and nutrients) and expertise in facilitating stakeholder and landowner discussions around nature-based land use change.
We are looking for a talented natural capital specialist to join our growing team. Savills culture is one of trust and respect, teamwork and collaboration. Our teams and our clients benefit when we work together, listening to and learning from each other.Above all, we value the motivation of our people. This is evidenced by our wellbeing offer, our capability to facilitate flexible working and our support to enjoy a healthy work life balance.
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process.If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.