Bat Ecologist - Wildlife Trust Consultancy

Bat Ecologist - Wildlife Trust Consultancy

Closing date: Sunday 8 March 2026 Salary: £30,900 - £32,900 per annum Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time Location: Meadow Farm, Thame Road, Blackthorn, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 1TW Click here to apply

We are looking to grow our Ecology team! Join our Wildlife Trust consultancy as a Bat Ecologist and help deliver exceptional projects where every pound of profit goes straight back into protecting and restoring wildlife.

Future Nature is one of 23 Wildlife Trust Consultancies operating throughout the UK. The profits from our ecological and land & farm consultancy services are returned back into the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, to fund their invaluable work helping nature's recovery.

Some of what you'll be doing

• Undertake and lead a range of bat surveys in accordance with current guidance
• Undertake and lead on other ecology surveys including UKHab, BNG and protected species surveys
• Supervise survey teams and ensure data quality
• Analyse bat sound recordings and interpret survey data
• Undertake Ecological Clerk of Works during works affecting bat roosts or other ecological receptors

What we're looking for

• A good understanding of biodiversity and ecological principles with strong bat identification and sound analysis skills
• Natural England Level 1 or Level 2 Bat Survey Licence
• Demonstrable experience undertaking bat surveys and sound analysis and supervising survey teams
• Experience of roost mitigation design and supervision
• High standard of technical writing and experience with writing bat survey reports, EcIA and PEA reporting

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (flexible in how worked). Part time hours will be considered

Based: Hybrid working with 1-2 days per week office based (Berks, Bucks, Oxon)

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement with paid birthday leave, balance days, urgent personal business leave and generous occupational sick pay
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and family friendly policies
• Flexible working to achieve work life balance
• Salary exchange pension with generous employer contribution
• Wellbeing initiatives including qualified Mental Health First Aiders, YuLife benefit package - access to immediate and confidential help for any work, health, or life matters; 3x life assurance, online GP access, discounts and trade YuCoin points for gift cards
• Salary sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electric Vehicle scheme
• Membership to BBOWT's, and The Wildlife Trusts', Staff Network Groups for social interaction, peer support, mentoring and personal development

How to apply

For full details, please read the job description and T&Cs below. To apply, please follow the application link.

The closing time and date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 8 th March 2026. Interviews will take place 19 th March 2026 via Teams.

BBOWT values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We want every candidate to have the best chance of success as part of this process. In order to do this, we know that some candidates will need reasonable adjustments. Contact us on if there are any reasonable adjustments we can provide during the recruitment process, including completing your application.

When applying for the role you can expect to answer a few questions online relating to the skills required and what you would be doing in the role. Your responses will be anonymised, randomised, and scored by a panel of reviewers.

We don't use an application form, or CVs - your answers to our situational based questions will be scored against a review guide and scores from these will decide which candidates go through to the interview stage. See here to find out why we do this.

Whilst we appreciate ChatGPT and other AI platforms can answer these questions, we know what they have to say (and generally the answer they generate isn't great). We want to hear your perspective written in your own words. If it is clear that any of your answers are not your own work, we reserve the right to reject your application on that basis.

You'll also be asked for information about your background, anything you feel comfortable sharing will be anonymised and will not be shared as part of the selection process, it will only be used to help us understand how we are performing against our equal opportunities metrics. All candidates will receive feedback on their application.

We want our people to be as diverse as nature, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underserved within the communities in which we operate. This includes people from visible ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities (including those who are neurodivergent), the LGBTQ+ community, those from lower socio economic backgrounds, and younger people. We are committed to creating an organisation that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

Job description, Benefits summary and T&Cs