Senior Marine Biologist and Surveyor

DHI is a global leader in solving the toughest water, climate, and biodiversity related challenges. We seek a confident, outgoing, organized, and self-motivated environmental professional to help drive our environmental projects forward. The role will be to project manage and provide technical environmental solutions to our clients. The role will involve running several environmental projects at a time and interfacing with clients on a day-to-day basis.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Undertake technical work as a marine biologist for biodiversity and environmental impact assessments, environmental management and monitoring, and other environmental studies.
- Development of innovative and multidisciplinary technical and organizational methods/services for biodiversity.
- Manage ecological monitoring and assessment projects, lead and undertake field surveys, monitoring and sample collection for biological and physicochemical parameters for a wide range of coastal, marine and terrestrial environmental projects; periodic weekend work as well as occasional overseas travel in the Asia Pacific region may be required
- Provide technical mentoring and guidance on coral relocation methodologies, ensuring best practices in site selection, handling, and transplantation to support marine conservation goals.
- Assist with other applied research activities and QA/QC, compilation and analysis of various survey and monitoring data
- Work collaboratively as part of a team and share knowledge with colleagues.
- Client liaison and consultations with regulatory agencies and other project stakeholders.
- Project manage resources, schedules, sub-contractors, budgets, and risks.

**Education and Experience**
- At least 10 years of relevant working experience
- Degree in Environmental/ Marine/Life Science or a related discipline
- Post-graduate degree in Marine Biology / Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Life Sciences, or a related discipline is an advantage
- Prior experience in marine ecological field sampling methods, species identification, scientific writing and statistical analysis of data
- Previous environmental consultancy experience looked upon favourably.

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Experience on working in tropical coastal and marine ecosystems, biodiversity, conservation and management issues
- Physically capable and medically fit to work long hours in the field or at sea in a variety of conditions
- Advanced Open Water SCUBA Diver or equivalent with >50 open water dives; certification and experience with diving in limited visibility and strong currents. Rescue certification preferred.
- Knowledge of environmental management, monitoring, assessment, and mature-based solutions and understanding of development projects and activities are a must-have.
- Attention to detail with good verbal, analytical and writing skills, professional presentation, and communication competencies.
- Confidence to work with different external stakeholders (e.g. developers, contractors, government agencies, NGOs, etc).
- Ability to work well independently, under pressure and demanding deadlines, as part of a team, in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with multiple projects and various stakeholders.
- Ability to work flexibly in response to project needs and deliverables that may occasionally include weekend, public holidays, and overseas travel.
- Working knowledge of MS Office suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Basic knowledge of statistical analysis
- Self-motivated, creative, energetic, willing to learn new skills, and a keen interest in marine conservation and research