Natural Capital Consultant
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.
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.
- Business area
- Rural & Projects
- Role
- Rural Management
- Locations
- Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow, Scotland Wide (Flexible)
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role is office based , This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
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Natural Capital Consultant
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.
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