Biodiversity Consultant

ERM is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet. Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes. As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery. Why this role matters? As a Biodiversity Consultant, you will support ERM’s global Capital Project Delivery (CPD) work by delivering discrete, desk-based biodiversity workstreams and producing high-quality baseline, impact-assessment, and reporting outputs across major infrastructure, renewables, transmission & distribution, hydrogen, carbon capture (CCUS), mining, and diversified energy projects. Working within the CPD Nature & Biodiversity sub-team, you will collaborate with regional ecologists, and task leads to scale ERM’s biodiversity delivery capacity. This is a desk/office-based, globally connected role; field survey work is delivered by regional teams. What your impact is? Prepare desk-based biodiversity and ecological baselines —supporting preliminary interpretation of protected-area, designated-site, habitat, and species data from public and licensed databases (e.g., IBAT, IUCN, national datasets). Draft ecological impact assessment (EcIA/ESIA) chapters, technical appendices, and scoping reports to internationally recognized standards (e.g., IFC Performance Standard 6, Equator Principles), adaptable to region-specific regimes. Support desktop habitat mapping, constraints and buffer analysis, and preliminary/desktop wetland and habitat delineation using GIS, coordinating with ERM’s GIS teams where required. Apply the mitigation hierarchy (avoid, minimize, restore, offset) and support biodiversity metric / net-gain style calculations and no-net-loss analysis. Manage discrete workstreams end-to-end — coordinating CDH and regional inputs to deliver on time, on budget, and to ERM quality, technical, and Health & Safety standards. Act as a reliable day-to-day point of contact for regional task leads, presenting findings clearly and supporting continuous improvement of templates, methodologies, and CDH–region ways of working. What will you bring?