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Natural Capital / Environmental Economist
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Natural Capital / Environmental Economist
Natural Capital or Environmental Economist – Stantec UK
The Opportunity
Stantec UK, a leader in sustainability advisory services, provides expert guidance on net zero carbon management, climate change resilience, natural capital, and social value to a diverse range of clients.
We are expanding our natural capital and environmental economy team, offering flexibility in location while providing opportunities to work across the UK with clients from various sectors. This role presents a dynamic and impactful career opportunity for someone passionate about advancing sustainability through evidence-based, innovative solutions.
Primary Work Focus: Water sector projects, with potential support in energy, community development, and transport.
Your expertise will contribute to consultancy projects covering:**
- Sustainability, regulation, and carbon management
- Life cycle analysis, climate change, and resilience
- Natural and social value evaluation
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist economic and multi-capitals input to projects, ensuring alignment with sustainability and regulatory frameworks.
- Work within interdisciplinary project teams, managing your own workload while delivering high-quality outputs.
- Support proposal development, client engagement, and external representatives at events (e.g., conferences) and technical discussions.
- Influence technically robust, commercial solutions in sectors such as:
- Natural capital accounting and six capitals frameworks
- Ecosystem services valuation
- Natural capital integration into ESG frameworks
- Social value and wellbeing measurement
- Green finance and market development for nature-based solutions
Successful candidates will balance analytical rigour with pragmatic delivery, ensuring economic insights inform climate action, infrastructure resilience, and long-term value.
About You
Qualifications & Experience
- Relevant degree in environmental economics (or a closely related field, e.g., ecology, sustainability science).
- Postgraduate qualification (Masters or equivalent) is advantageous.
- Professional qualification as an Environmental or Natural Capital Economist (often IEMA, RIBAVC, or equivalent).
- Water sector experience is beneficial (but not essential).
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Skills & Attributes
- Technical excellence: An understanding of life cycle assessment (LCA), cost-benefit analysis, and valuation methodologies (e.g., shadow pricing, discontinued use value).
- Regulatory awareness: Proficiency in UK and EU environmental legislation, compliance frameworks, and sustainable development principles.
- Commercial acumen: Ability to translate technical insights into client-facing strategies, proposals, and funding arguments—critical for green finance and policy engagement.
- Project leadership: Experience managing multi-stakeholder projects with a focus on efficiency, transparency, and inclusion.
- Innovation: A forward-thinking approach to applying digital technologies and novel tools to improve environmental impact assessment.
Soft Skills
- Adaptability and client-focused problem-solving. A balance of rigour and pragmatism to navigate complex, evolving sustainability challenges within time/budget constraints.
- Stakeholder engagement skills. Capable of mediating technical debates, fostering trust, and tailoring communication for practitioners, policymakers, and business leaders.
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration. Strong team player with a capacity to lead and co-create solutions with professionals from engineering, biology, social sciences, and policy.
- Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and knowledge generation. A long-term perspective supports client alignment, statistical confidence, and systems narrative-building.
Benefits & Career Growth
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- Competitive remuneration, within a supportive structure.
- Continuous professional development: Access to training in cutting-edge practices, networking events, and peer mentorship.
- Diverse client portfolio, allowing exposure to innovative sector-specific applications of natural capital economics (e.g., flood management, renewable energy).
- Potential for internal mobility and leadership opportunities across sustainable infrastructure fields.
- Culture of balance and ambition: Integrated within a global organisation that prioritises workplace inclusion, mental health support, and environmental responsibility.
About Stantec
Founded over 150 years ago, Stantec remains a leading design and consulting firm with over 34,000 employees across 6 continents. We are committed to creating lasting value through responsible investment—shaping infrastructure that delivers equitable, resilient, and sustainable communities.
Stantec’s mission is to build a better tomorrow. This role will facilitate progress on net-zero carbon, biodiversity targets, and social coherence by embedding economic reasoning at the heart of transformation.
Adherence to Equality & Accessibility
Stantec is fully committed to diversity and equality, prohibiting discrimination based on race, age, gender identity, disability, or any other protected characteristic. This commitment extends to accessible recruitment practices—we respect and accommodate reasonable working adjustments.
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Expression of Interest
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