Ecology Resource Planning Lead - Nature Services
Added 29 Sept · still live
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
This job is eligible only on a shortage list. Likely if it's SOC 2440
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£41,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 3571 is an eligible occupation, but we are only 34% sure that is the right code. WSP in the UK & Ireland is a licensed sponsor, so if the code fits, the role should qualify. Check the occupation eligibility rules against what the job actually involves.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Possible 3571 (Human resources and industrial relations officers) · 34% match
- Likely 2440 (Business and financial project management professionals) · 31% match
- Likely 1136 (Human resource managers and directors) · 16% match
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What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3571 Human resources and industrial relations officers Most likely code | £33,400 | £41,700 | £41,700 | £41,700 |
2440 Business and financial project management professionals Also possible | £39,500 | £45,200 | £50,800 | £56,500 |
1136 Human resource managers and directors Also possible | £37,100 | £42,300 | £47,600 | £52,900 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Job Description
Ecology Resource Planning Lead
Shape the future of talent. Drive resource strategy. Deliver impact at scale.
Are you an experienced resource management professional who thrives on balancing business priorities, people development, and operational excellence? Do you enjoy influencing senior stakeholders, solving complex workforce challenges, and creating high-performing teams?
We're looking for a Ecology Resource Planning Lead to play a critical role within our Nature Services Business Unit, helping to optimise resource allocation, build future capability, and ensure our people are deployed where they can make the greatest impact. This is a highly visible and influential position where you'll partner with senior leaders across the business to deliver resource agility, support strategic growth, and drive a people-first approach to workforce planning.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Resource Manager, you'll take ownership of resource planning activities across the Nature Services Business Unit, ensuring the right people are deployed to the right projects at the right time.
You'll become a trusted advisor to senior leadership, using workforce insights, strategic planning, and strong stakeholder relationships to influence key decisions and support sustainable business growth.
This role offers the opportunity to work on an exciting portfolio of projects while helping shape the future capability and talent strategy of a growing, purpose-driven business.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategic Resource Management
Ecology Resource Planning Lead
Shape the future of talent. Drive resource strategy. Deliver impact at scale.
Are you an experienced resource management professional who thrives on balancing business priorities, people development, and operational excellence? Do you enjoy influencing senior stakeholders, solving complex workforce challenges, and creating high-performing teams?
We're looking for a Ecology Resource Planning Lead to play a critical role within our Nature Services Business Unit, helping to optimise resource allocation, build future capability, and ensure our people are deployed where they can make the greatest impact. This is a highly visible and influential position where you'll partner with senior leaders across the business to deliver resource agility, support strategic growth, and drive a people-first approach to workforce planning.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Resource Manager, you'll take ownership of resource planning activities across the Nature Services Business Unit, ensuring the right people are deployed to the right projects at the right time.
You'll become a trusted advisor to senior leadership, using workforce insights, strategic planning, and strong stakeholder relationships to influence key decisions and support sustainable business growth.
This role offers the opportunity to work on an exciting portfolio of projects while helping shape the future capability and talent strategy of a growing, purpose-driven business.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategic Resource Management
- Lead workforce planning and resource optimisation initiatives across the Nature Services Business Unit.
- Balance utilisation, financial performance, project delivery requirements, and people development objectives.
- Drive resource agility across teams, ensuring effective deployment of talent to meet business needs.
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- Build strong relationships with Operations Directors, Cost Centre Managers, Team Leads, Project
- Managers, Project Directors, HR, Recruitment, Finance and Learning & Development teams.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on resourcing strategy, capability planning and workforce development.
- Challenge constructively and influence decisions using data, insight and business understanding.
- Workforce Planning & Capability Development
- Develop a deep understanding of team capabilities, skills and future talent requirements.
- Support employee growth and career development through strategic project allocation.
- Identify capability gaps and contribute to short, medium and long-term workforce plans.
- Help create succession planning and future capability strategies.
- Support bid and proposal activities through resource forecasting and demand profiling.
- Contribute to the successful mobilisation of major projects and programmes.
- Provide leadership teams with actionable insights on workload management, skills availability and future resource requirements.
- Support the development and implementation of innovative resource management initiatives.
We're interested in speaking with commercially minded resource management professionals who combine strong analytical capability with outstanding relationship-building skills.
You'll Bring
- Significant experience in resource management, workforce planning or strategic resourcing.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders in a complex, matrix environment.
- Strong leadership and influencing skills with the confidence to challenge constructively.
This is more than a resource planning role.
It's an opportunity to influence how talent is deployed across a business that is delivering some of the most exciting and meaningful environmental and nature-focused projects in the industry.
You'll work alongside talented professionals, partner with senior leaders, and play a key role in ensuring our people have access to challenging, rewarding work that supports both business success and career growth.
If you're motivated by strategy, collaboration and making a genuine impact through people and workforce planning, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply Now
Join us and help create a smarter, more agile workforce while supporting projects that are shaping a better future for people, communities and the environment. Apply today to become our next Ecology Resource Planning Lead.
Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
Work on landmark projects around the world and embrace opportunities to make an even bigger impact in the communities you care about. What if you could do the best work of your life and create a legacy for yourself?
With us, you can. Apply today.
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Where this offer sits in the market
Human resources and industrial relations officers (SOC 3571) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~137k in sampleSOC 3571
- Middle half £28,912–42,432
- Median £33,904
- Going rate £41,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £33,400–37,530
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 3571 going rate of £41,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.