Graduate Natural Capital (Environment) - Edinburgh - start Jan 25 onwards

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Our Natural Capital team are currently seeking a graduate within our Edinburgh office from January 2025 onwards.

About our Team

The team works across all aspects of the natural capital agenda including natural capital accounting and appraisal, environmental valuation, environmental net gain analysis, and nature markets. For this role, we expect a particular focus will be on nature recovery strategy work.

Our clients and projects cover public, private and third sector organisations both in the UK and internationally across a range of sectors including water, energy, agriculture, forestry, and transport.

You’ll employ your creativity to develop ideas and solutions to deliver effective environmental and sustainability outcomes and improved project performance. You may also have the opportunity to get involved in our Natural Capital Laboratory – an area of wilderness in the Scottish Highlands at which we are trialling new technologies and techniques for collecting, analysing and communicating information on environmental change.

Here's what you'll do:

As a graduate in the team, the successful individual will:

• Support and contribute to the natural capital team's projects
• Undertake research and analysis, combining desk studies with analysis of quantitative and qualitative data
• Help to prepare and contribute to meetings with clients and report writing
• Contribute to ideas and potential solutions for natural capital projects

Enjoy the Perks

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Here is what you will get from us!

On the job support and learning

When a graduate starts at AECOM, we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development tasks, to support with any technical queries.

Graduate Development Programme

Our 2 year graduate ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM. You will attend a number of instructor-led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role. Alongside the instructor-led elements of the ADVANCE programme, you will also engage with an online curriculum via AECOM University and have the opportunity to join the ADVANCE webinar series. We will provide you with all the support and tools you need to achieve your professional development ambitions, which may include Chartership with the relevant international professional institution eg Institute for Environmental Management or Assessment (IEMA), Institute of Environmental Science (IES).

We have more than 750 graduates on our programmes across the UK and Ireland from more than 40 different disciplines, each making a tangible difference to the environment in which we live and work.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Ideally, you will have a relevant first degree and, potentially, a relevant post-graduate degree.

Relevant first or post-graduate degree subjects include: environmental economics, environmental management, environmental planning, environmental policy, environmental science, social science, sustainable development.

• Excellent numerical, analytical and economic skills and the aptitude to understand and communicate complex technical information
• Ability to work flexibly under pressure, responding to changing project and programme demands
• Good communications skills – verbal and written (fluent in English) – with the confidence to engage with a variety of people (clients, colleagues, stakeholders and sub-contractors alike) and the aptitude to rationally explain, explore and discuss technical issues and capture feedback
• Time Management - Work within schedules to coordinate the completion of tasks through to final project completion
• Willingness and ability to learn
• Strong research and report writing skills (including web-based research) to support team on technical issues influencing project development, attention to detail.
• Ability to summarise technical information effectively and demonstrate diligent research techniques
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong numerate skills.
• Self-starter and enthusiastic, develops and delivers work under own initiative.
• Solid attention to detail and thorough approach to work.
• Strong organisational skills
• Commercial awareness for business development, marketing, and proposal preparation.

Preferred

• Experience in economic valuation using non-market valuation methods to support policy- and decision-making

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected for an advanced offer start.

Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades.

You must have permanent right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.