Land Access Coordinator

About the Role

As a Land Access Coordinator within ERM's Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH), you will play a key entry-level role supporting ERM's UK capital projects. You will coordinate landowner engagement, access arrangements, and record-keeping activities essential for progressing projects through survey, consenting, and construction phases. Working within the Capital Project Delivery (CPD) — Projects Feasibility, Planning & Consents pillar, you will support Land Access Managers and Survey Coordinators.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Land Access Managers in delivering land access workstreams on assigned UK CPD projects, taking ownership of coordination, tracking, and administrative tasks.
• Draft and issue initial landowner correspondence, permission-to-survey letters, and simple access licences under the supervision of a Land Access Manager.
• Maintain the landowner contact database, engagement log, and land access tracker — ensuring records are accurate, up to date, and audit-ready.
• Support land referencing activities including desktop title research, HM Land Registry searches, and preparation of Book of Reference and Land Interest inputs.
• Coordinate scheduling of landowner meetings, site visits, and follow-up actions, ensuring the wider team has visibility of engagement status.
• Liaise with Survey Coordinators to align landowner permissions with survey programmes, flagging blockers to the Land Access Manager early.
• Contribute to GIS updates by providing land ownership and access status data to GIS specialists.
• Follow ERM's health, safety, quality, and ethics standards on all fieldwork and landowner engagement, including lone-working procedures and land access risk assessments.
• Support the wider CPD UK Land Services team with ad hoc tasks including proposal support, template development, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Impact of Your Work

• Landowner contact details, correspondence, and engagement records are captured accurately and kept up to date, enabling the wider team to make informed decisions and evidence engagement.
• Access requests, permission letters, are issued promptly and tracked to completion, keeping survey and site teams up to date.
• Land referencing datasets, GIS layers, and Book of Reference inputs are maintained to a consistently high standard of accuracy and auditability.
• Landowners, tenants, and agents receive a professional, courteous, and consistent first point of contact — protecting ERM's and our clients' reputation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams)
• Willingness to develop GIS and land database skills.

Qualifications

• A degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in land management, rural surveying, geography, planning, environmental science, or a related discipline — or equivalent early-career experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage landowners, tenants, and agents professionally by phone and/or email.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple trackers, records, and correspondence streams simultaneously.
• A proactive, curious mindset with a genuine interest in UK infrastructure, energy, and the land access/right-of-way discipline.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team while taking ownership of assigned tasks and deadlines.

Preferred Skills & Competencies

• Awareness of the UK land access and consenting landscape (e.g., wayleaves, DCO, planning applications).
• Prior experience (including placements, internships, or graduate schemes) in a land, property, planning, or environmental consultancy setting.
• Exposure to GIS platforms (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS) or land data management tools.