Beca's Planning & Environment team helps clients design and deliver projects that create lasting environmental, social and community value. We integrate planning, approvals, environmental assessment, ecology, heritage, sustainability and environmental management expertise to guide projects from concept to consent and beyond.
Our teams support major initiatives across energy transition, water security, transport and social infrastructure, manufacturing, and defence right across Australia and the Pacific. If you want to influence meaningful outcomes at scale, this is the place to do it.
The Opportunity
This is a new senior leadership role to champion and deliver ecological and biodiversity assessments, provide trusted ecological advice, and embed ecological outcomes into multidisciplinary projects across Beca's markets in Australia. This role is a key strategic investment, identified as part of our wider growth strategy. You'll have the opportunity to build and shape the Victorian ecology capability and offering, including driving strategic recruitment, capacity building, and technical oversight of our biodiversity focussed work.
As a senior member of our Planning & Environment section, you will help shape strategy, grow capability across environmental, ecology and social disciplines, help build Beca's brand, and take a key client leadership role for relevant clients. This newly created and rapid-growing section is focused on helping our clients create measurable environmental, social and community benefits.
As a leader in the business, you will set best practice ecological outcomes and biodiversity strategies aligned with national/international environmental standards.



As well as providing advice to relevant team members to integrate ecological safeguarding and best practice ecological outcomes into project design, impact assessment, and approvals.
Lead and grow Beca's ecology profile and market presence in Victoria.
Lead account planning and pursuit strategies for project work aligned with our strategy.
Lead bid strategy, value propositions, pricing and pitches to clients.
Develop and nurture positive relationships with clients in these sectors.
Advise and prepare scopes for clients that address delivery and approvals risks.
Mentor and develop ecologists, environmental practitioners and planners; foster a high-performing, inclusive culture.
Build cross-Tasman collaboration with Beca's New Zealand team for project pursuits and delivery across Australia and the Pacific.
Build discipline tools, templates and training for consistent high-quality delivery in collaboration with broader ecology capability across Beca.
About You
Qualified and experienced ecologist.
Recognised ecology technical leader with a record of delivering complex, high impact projects.
Experience in team leadership and/or building.
Ability to develop people, grow capability and build an integrated team.
Up-to-date with the latest legislative developments and provide updates on these developments across the team.
Proven commercial acumen with experience growing client relationships and expanding service offerings.
Being a technical leader and relationship builder,



you have the capability to lead projects and project teams and initiate, manage and develop strategic and operational relationships internally and externally to influence and coordinate people and skillsets to effect change to benefit our communities, people and clients. Experience in giving evidence as expert witness would be beneficial.
What We Offer:
Flexibility & Wellbeing:
Enjoy flexible working options and dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.
Belonging & Ownership:
Join a diverse and inclusive team where you can bring your whole self to work, plus shareholder opportunities.
Parental Leave:
Up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.
Career Growth & Development:
Benefit from continuous learning, company training programmes, and support for professional accreditation.
Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture - open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.
Who is Beca?
Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4,000 professionals brings a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions through our collective experience and insights.
'Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. Our values of partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care sit at the heart of everything we do. At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, people and community, and your involvement makes it possible.
We understand that work-life balance is key and offer flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.
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📌 Principal / Senior Ecologist (Melbourne)
🏢 Environmental Jobs
📍 Melbourne