Role: Senior Consultant - Aquatic Ecologist Location: London - Hybrid, Manchester - Hybrid Salary range:£35,000 - £45,000 Role ID: 2023 - 2190   Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world   We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Aquatic Ecologist (Fisheries), with a focus on fisheries to join our Ecology team within the Water Practice.   Key responsibilities - Provide technical input across the Ecology team to deliver expertise in fisheries related investigations across all project stages, from bidding/feasibility/optioneering, extensive field survey programming, detailed design and assessment. - Work with technical specialists across ecology and hydrology/water quality to understand and interpret implications of changes in the physical environment on fish habitat and species behaviour. - Help to develop technically excellent services and identify new opportunities across the market to sustain continued growth and expansion in the team. - Have a willingness, appetite and enthusiasm for new challenges and for being central to the mentoring and development of our Ecology team. Key competencies and experience - A degree in a relevant subject, such as ecology or other biological sciences, and/or a relevant postgraduate qualification. - Have demonstrable commercial consultancy experience and have Full Membership of CIEEM. - Knowledge of UK and EU Wildlife Legislation (in particular Habitats Regulations Assessment), planning policies, licensing requirements and best practice survey techniques. Skills and Behaviour - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; be able to produce accurate technical reports. - Excellent team working skills are therefore essential together with strong communication skills. - Be able to represent Ricardo and its clients to key stakeholders, including wide-ranging technical engagement and consultation with regulators, local authorities, NGOs and the general public. Desirable - Chartership of relevant professional institution - Experience in providing clients with the accurate and proportionate technical and consenting advice in relation to DCOs and significant infrastructure projects in the UK. Working with Ricardo   You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.   We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.   Work life balance    We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.   Benefits   We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.    Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.   Next steps   Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.   Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@riceedo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.   Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement   We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.   Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. #LI-CM1

  Role: Senior Consultant - Aquatic Ecologist Location: Bristol - Hybrid (Commutable to Bristol - Hybrid / Remote / In Office)  Salary range:£35,000 - £45,000 Role ID: 2023 - 2152   Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company - a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice and data. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.   We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Aquatic Ecologist, with a focus on fisheries to join our Ecology team within the Water Practice.   Key responsibilities - Provide technical input across the Ecology team to deliver expertise in fisheries related investigations across all project stages, from bidding/feasibility/optioneering, extensive field survey programming, detailed design and assessment. - Work with technical specialists across ecology and hydrology/water quality to understand and interpret implications of changes in the physical environment on fish habitat and species behaviour. - Help to develop technically excellent services and identify new opportunities across the market to sustain continued growth and expansion in the team. - Have a willingness, appetite and enthusiasm for new challenges and for being central to the mentoring and development of our Ecology team. Key competencies and experience - A degree in a relevant subject, such as ecology or other biological sciences, and/or a relevant postgraduate qualification. - Have demonstrable commercial consultancy experience and have Full Membership of CIEEM. - Knowledge of UK and EU Wildlife Legislation (in particular Habitats Regulations Assessment), planning policies, licensing requirements and best practice survey techniques. Skills and Behaviour - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; be able to produce accurate technical reports. - Excellent team working skills are therefore essential together with strong communication skills. - Be able to represent Ricardo and its clients to key stakeholders, including wide-ranging technical engagement and consultation with regulators, local authorities, NGOs and the general public. Desirable - Chartership of relevant professional institution - Experience in providing clients with the accurate and proportionate technical and consenting advice in relation to DCOs and significant infrastructure projects in the UK.   Working with Ricardo   You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.   We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.   Work life balance    We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.   Benefits   We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.    Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.   Next steps   Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.   Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@riceedo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.   Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement   We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.   Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. #LI-CM1

  Role Title: Senior Consultant Climate Change Policy  Location: London/ Didcot/ Manchester/ Madrid/ Hybrid /Partial Remote Job ID: 2023-1907   Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.   We are currently looking for a Senior Consultant - Climate Policy and Carbon Pricing.   The successful candidate will work within a team that wins and delivers a wide range of policy projects covering policy option development, design, impact assessment, evaluation and carries out a wide range of capacity building and stakeholder engagement activities including workshop delivery and guidance production. The team works across many climate change mitigation policy areas and you will bring strong knowledge of one or more of these. They include international climate change agreements, national mitigation policy instruments especially carbon pricing and market-based measures, industry sectoral incentives, energy markets, and innovation technologies and funding.   Your work will involve technical delivery of policy projects.  This will include the management of medium sized projects (£50-100k) and leadership of tasks within larger projects.  Technical work will include analysis, stakeholder engagement, capacity building (workshops, training, guidance production) and report writing.   You will also undertake business development activities which will include competitive bidding, client and partner relationship management and participation in promotional events. You will have experience of competitive bidding in a consultancy environment and be capable of managing medium sized consortium bids. You will have a strong commercial awareness and energy and enthusiasm for growing the business in your technical area. Ideally, you will have experience in leading or working on proposals and projects for clients such as development banks, the European Commission and national governments.   Key Responsibilities - Monitoring market developments and inputting to company business development activities to take advantage of emerging opportunities. - Development and maintenance of close client and partner relationships to support the winning of new business. - Contributing to complex proposals and leading simpler ones. - Leading medium sized projects or tasks within larger projects - Supporting the delivery of projects. This involves working within teams to achieve client satisfaction, timely delivery, strong project financial performance and high quality technical outputs. - Participating in capacity building activities including workshop facilitation and presentation delivery. - Presenting Ricardo Energy & Environment’s work at client meetings. Key Competencies and Experience - Educated to at least Bachelor’s degree level specializing in scientific, engineering, environmental, legal or economic fields. - Experience contributing to business development and/or competitive bid writing in a consultancy environment is essential. - Experience working within multidisciplinary teams is essential, and experience managing project teams would be an advantage. - Previous experience working within projects for clients such as the European Commission, World Bank, GIZ, EBRD, Asian Development Bank and UK Government would be desirable. - Good understanding of the energy and climate change policy landscape, gained during studies or work experience, in one or more of the following areas: - EU energy and climate change policy especially the measures implemented under the Energy Efficiency directive, EU Emissions Trading Directive and the Effort Sharing Regulation. - International climate change negotiations especially the market mechanisms envisaged under the Paris Agreement. - Carbon taxes and trading systems in place or planned around the world. - UK low carbon initiatives especially the Net Zero agenda, Clean Growth Strategy, Industrial strategy and decarbonisation policy measurer's. Skills and Behaviours - Strong project delivery skills with track record in contributing towards large and/or complex projects. - Experience leading projects or tasks within large projects is essential. - Excellent written and spoken English essential; fluency in other European languages will be an advantage. Strong Spanish or French language skills proven in a consultancy environment will be considered a particular strength. - Strong oral and written communication essential, including concise and precise report writing. - Strong analytical skills essential. - Good team worker. - Strong level of commercial awareness and appreciation for project financial management principles would be an advantage. Working here You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.   We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.   Work life balance  We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.   Benefits We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.    Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.   Next steps Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.   Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.   #LI-EP1

  Role: Finance Sector Lead Location: London, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Shoreham / Hybrid Role ID: 2023-1867   Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.   Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental and engineering consulting company. Our company vision is to create a safe and sustainable world, which is the driver behind everything we do as a business. Ricardo’s shared values – create together, be innovative, aim high and be mindful - actively guide our behaviours and reflect how we work together. Putting our values into action is what binds us together and makes Ricardo not only a great place to work but a company with which our customers want to do business.    We are seeking an experienced individual with a finance sector background and ESG experience to build and lead a team to support our finance sector clients to be at the forefront of the transition towards a sustainable future.  This is a new and exciting role within Ricardo that will extend our current corporate sustainability offerings to service an increasingly number of finance sector clients seeking sustainable solutions. You will benefit from our extensive expertise in ESG, net zero, scope 3, carbon footprint analysis and reporting, life cycle assessment, circular economy practices, sustainable procurement and decarbonisation of heat, energy and transportation.   We’d love to hear from you if you have the following competencies and experience: - Proven track record in a finance sector ESG role, successfully delivering projects and securing business by providing valuable advice to clients. - Demonstrated extensive network within the finance sector, including valuable connections and relationships with key stakeholders, industry professionals and decision-makers. - Expertise across a range of areas including ESG regulation, climate risk and scenario stress testing, due diligence, carbon markets, green taxonomy, sustainable investment strategy implementation. - Higher education qualification in finance or economics, a background in accountancy, or a strong track record in this field. - In-depth knowledge of relevant frameworks in the finance sector (e.g. TCFD, TNFD, IFRS/ISSB, UN PRI, GRI, EU SFRD, EU Taxonomy, UK Green Strategy, SDR). - Strong commercial awareness and the ability to identify opportunities that align with the evolving needs for finance sector clients. - Leadership skills necessary to drive the development of market leading ESG propositions and solutions tailored to the finance sector Your main responsibilities would be: - Lead the strategic development of new service offerings for the finance sector, leveraging your industry insights and expertise. - Conduct thorough market analysis to identify emerging trends, client needs and potential opportunities for service offerings. - Engage with clients and prospective clients to understand their unique challenges and requirements and develop tailored service proposals. - Build a team of finance sector focused ESG professionals dedicated to developing and delivering these new services. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to generate innovative solutions that address the evolving demands of finance sector clients. - Identify potential risks associated with the introduction of new services and develop risk mitigation strategies. - Oversee the successful launch of new services, including developing detailed implementation plans and coordinating resources. - Build relationships with external partners in the market, including legal advisory firms and digital platforms relevant to the finance sector. - Contribute to the development of marketing materials that effectively communicate the value and benefits of the new service offerings. - Monitor the performance of the new services, gather feedback and make necessary adjustments to ensure optimal client satisfaction and service quality. You need to have the following skills and behaviours: - Ability to envision and articulate a compelling strategic direction for the development of ESG service offerings in the finance sector. - Mindset that thrives on innovation, fostering an environment where creative solutions are explored to meet the evolving needs of finance sector clients. - Ability and guide and inspire cross-functional teams and foster collaboration and ensure that diverse talents and perspectives contribute to the successful development of market-leading propositions. - Commitment to understanding the unique needs and challenges of finance sector clients, leading to the design of tailored service solutions that address their specific requirements. - Ability to assess and manage potential risks associated with new service offerings, devising strategies to mitigate these risks effectively. - Commitment to mentoring and developing team members, developing their skills and capabilities to support the growth of the new service offerings. - Effective client and stakeholder communication skills, including the ability to influence, negotiate and manage relationships. - Commitment to staying up to date with industry development, regulations and emerging best practices Commitment to staying up to date with industry development, regulations and emerging best practices. Working here You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. Work life balance  We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Benefits We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.    Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.   Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.   Next steps Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.   Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.   #LI-ZP1