BNG and Environmental Legacy Delivery Officer

We’re looking for a BNG & Environmental Legacy Delivery Officer to join our Land Management Sustainability Team!

In this role, you'll undertake a broad range of activities associated with the delivery and long-term management of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), landscaping commitments, and wider Environmental Legacy obligations across National Grid Electricity Transmission’s non-operational estate. You'll play a key role in ensuring environmental commitments are successfully transferred from project teams into long-term stewardship arrangements, helping to deliver positive environmental outcomes while maintaining compliance with regulatory and consent requirements.

You'll be involved in the day-to-day management of assigned BNG and Environmental Legacy sites and work packages, taking responsibility for site handovers, contractor and consultant mobilisation, procurement activities, monitoring programmes, and the progression of remedial actions. Working closely with project teams, environmental specialists, land agents, contractors, and consultants, you'll help ensure environmental commitments are practical, adequately funded, and effectively delivered throughout their lifecycle.

Working in a dynamic and evolving environment, you'll contribute to the development of governance, delivery processes, and management frameworks that support the long-term stewardship of environmental obligations. You'll use your technical knowledge and project coordination skills to manage delivery activities, resolve routine issues, monitor performance, and support the successful achievement of National Grid's environmental commitments.

This is a variable-base role, with Warwick serving as the primary location for team meetings, collaboration, and business activities. We encourage a hybrid approach to working, with the flexibility to work remotely alongside office-based attendance as required.

The role also involves occasional travel to sites across the UK, typically around once per month, to support stakeholder engagement, site visits, and programme delivery. We're happy to discuss any additional flexibility that could help make this role work for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Independently lead the day-to-day delivery and long-term management of assigned BNG and Environmental Legacy sites and work packages, in line with agreed portfolio priorities and governance.
• Coordinate the transfer of assigned environmental obligations from project teams into long-term management, ensuring requirements, funding, responsibilities, records and outstanding actions are clearly documented.
• Review Biodiversity Net Gain commitments, Habitat Management Plans, Landscape and Ecological Management Plans and associated environmental obligations.
• Develop delivery scopes and coordinate procurement activities through approved procurement routes, obtaining appropriate technical, commercial or management approval where required.
• Manage the mobilisation and day-to-day performance of appointed contractors and consultants for assigned sites, monitoring progress against agreed deliverables and escalating material performance concerns.
• Review ecological monitoring outputs, identify required follow-up actions and coordinate proportionate remedial measures with relevant specialists and delivery partners.
• Coordinate site-level obligations monitoring and reporting, ensuring progress, compliance status, supporting evidence, risks and remedial actions are accurately recorded and reported through agreed internal governance processes and, where required, to Local Planning Authorities and other relevant external bodies.

What You’ll Have:

• A recognised degree, professional qualification or equivalent experience in ecology, biodiversity, conservation, environmental management, sustainability, land management or a related discipline.
• Demonstrable experience in a project delivery, stakeholder management, environmental management, land management or contractor/supplier coordination role, where relevant transferable skills can be evidenced.
• Knowledge and understanding of Biodiversity Net Gain and wider Environmental Legacy obligations, including habitat management, landscaping and visual screening commitments, ecological mitigation, protected species habitat requirements, compensation sites and environmental land management.
• Strong project delivery and coordination skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple assigned sites and work packages from handover through to long-term management.
• Experience of coordinating or managing contractors, consultants, project teams or suppliers, including monitoring progress, addressing routine delivery or performance issues and escalating material concerns where required.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across multidisciplinary internal and external teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain environmental requirements, delivery risks and practical actions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get:

£50,000 – £58,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance, and competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

More Information

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 30 October 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 16 November 26 onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About Us:

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating, and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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