Project Manager (NSIPs Delivery)

Environment Bank; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental organization in Edinburgh seeks a NSIPs Project Manager to support major infrastructure projects through the DCO process. The role involves coordinating multidisciplinary teams, managing land acquisition, and ensuring environmental mitigation is aligned with project delivery. Strong expertise in NSIPs and DCO processes is essential. The organization values flexible working, offers performance bonuses, and promotes career development through training and mentoring.

Benefits

Performance-based annual bonus up to 10%

Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions

30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Remote and hybrid flexible working options

Medical cash back scheme

Qualifications

• 5-10 years' experience in land acquisition, infrastructure development or environmental planning.
• Experience with Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
• Strong understanding of the DCO process in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Act as Project Manager for Environment Bank's NSIP commissions.
• Provide expert input throughout the DCO lifecycle.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including Land, Ecology, and Sales.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Project management

Environmental Impact Assessment

Team coordination

Education

Professional qualification in project management, planning, ecology

Job description

At Environment Bank, we're working together to help restore natural habitats across England. With thousands of acres of new habitat creation already underway, our projects are delivering biodiversity gains and helping vital ecosystems to recover and flourish.

Our diverse team includes ecologists, land managers, habitat specialists, geospatial analysts, planning advisors, account managers, digital creatives, legal experts, and more.

From our habitat specialists to our sales and marketing teams, everyone at Environment Bank is a champion for our values, working towards our goal of reversing biodiversity loss.

Environment Bank is a market-leading organisation in a sector that's experiencing rapid growth. We've already built a highly skilled team of experts and we're actively looking to expand our team in the coming months.

We're incredibly proud of all we achieved so far and we're still growing. If you'd like to be part of a driven organisation that's making a real difference, find your next role with the team at Environment Bank.

About the role

The NSIPs Project Manager will play a critical role in supporting major infrastructure projects through the Development Consent Order (DCO) process, helping clients manage consenting risk and deliver high-quality environmental mitigation.

Working across a portfolio of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, the role combines advisory support, strategic plan development, land targeting and acquisition oversight and practical delivery. The postholder will lead the coordination of multidisciplinary internal teams to define, design and implement Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and wider environmental and social mitigation solutions that are robust, deliverable and aligned with the DCO process.

This role is particularly suited to candidates with a land agency background associated with NSIPs and delivering on consenting requirements, including those who have worked within in-house land acquisition teams at UK infrastructure organisations, or within third-party consultancies supporting these organisations to identify, secure and manage land for NSIPs. A solid understanding of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and either an ecological / BNG background or experience environmental planning or infrastructure delivery is also desirable.

The role requires strong NSIP / DCO expertise and a working knowledge of land acquisition for environmental mitigation, enabling effective translation between land, planning, ecological and delivery considerations.

Key responsibilities

• Act as Project Manager for Environment Bank's NSIP commissions, ensuring projects and services are delivered on time, to scope and budget.
• Provide expert input and coordination support to NSIP clients throughout the DCO lifecycle, from early feasibility through to consent and implementation.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary internal teams including Land, Ecology, Sales / Commercial, Finance, Science and Verification.
• Manage the development of feasibility studies to identify appropriate BNG, environmental mitigation and enhancement requirements for NSIPs.
• Support the definition of environmental mitigation strategies, including how BNG and wider environmental and social benefits will be delivered on the ground.
• Oversee the transition from advisory and strategy development into practical delivery and implementation of habitat creation and management.
• Act as a key internal and external point of contact, building strong working relationships with clients, consultants and statutory stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment between DCO requirements, EIA / HRA outputs, consultation outcomes and Environment Bank delivery models.
• Identify and manage project risks, particularly relating to consenting, programme, cost and delivery.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Environment Bank's NSIP proposition, processes and project management approaches.

Requirements

Essential

• 5-10 years' relevant experience in land acquisition, land agency, infrastructure development or environmental planning.
• Demonstrable experience working on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
• Strong understanding of the Development Consent Order (DCO) process and how NSIPs are consented in the UK.
• Background in land acquisition, land agency or land strategy, either in-house within a renewables or infrastructure organisation or within a consultancy supporting such organisations.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing complex workstreams.
• Good working knowledge of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and its role in the DCO process.
• Ability to understand and integrate ecological, habitat and environmental mitigation requirements into land-led project delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and communication skills.
• Strong organisational and project management capability.

Desirable

• Ecological background or strong understanding of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), habitat creation and habitat management.
• Experience working with land acquisition, land agency or land management processes.
• Experience co-ordinating and acquiring land to deliver environmental mitigation or enhancement for major infrastructure projects.
• Understanding of wider environmental and social value delivery beyond BNG.
• Professional qualification in project management, planning, ecology or a related discipline.

Benefits

As an organisation, we believe that work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced, so we're creating a space where our team can thrive, both personally and professionally - providing flexible working arrangements, mental wellbeing support, and more.

We offer...

Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary

Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary

30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day

Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation

Remote and hybrid flexible working options

Regional and departmental team co-working days

Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year

Team fundraising and charity events

Ongoing career development with training and mentoring

Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs

Employee assistance mental wellbeing support

Enhanced sickness pay allowance