Overview
Role: Principal Consultant / Associate Director Environmental Economist
Location: UK - London, Harwell, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow
Europe - Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Czechia, Denmark
Role ID: 2024-2410
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions.
Role Purpose and Key Responsibilities
We have a vacancy for a Principal Consultant or Associate Director to provide technical leadership of our economics work-streams across air quality, industrial emissions, and circular economy. Working in parallel with our economics leads for chemicals and green finance, the role will also contribute across other environmental policy and economics themes that may arise. You will help to win and deliver high profile projects that play an integral role in driving regulatory approaches in the UK, EU, and worldwide.
You will lead the writing of high-quality proposals for customers, and undertake other business development activities such as partner relationship management and participation in promotional events. You will play a central role in shaping the strategy for the Environmental Policy team and our economics offering. You will use your expertise to lead the successful execution of complex projects and to support the development of more junior colleagues.
You will use your technical skills to provide insights to inform policy decisions. You will be involved in policy impact assessments and evaluation, requiring skills in stakeholder engagement, cost-benefit analysis, socio-economic analysis, feasibility assessment, and evaluation. We expect you to have extensive experience in the processes for the development of public policy and the methods for assessing the economic, environmental, and social impacts of policies, programmes, and measures.
Key Competencies and Experience
* Qualified to degree level in economics or a related subject.
* Relevant experience within consultancy, leading proposals and projects for European Commission and/or UK government departments.
* Experience and/or an interest to work as an applied economist in air quality and industrial emissions policy.
* An understanding of environmental issues, and UK/EU/international policy.
* The capacity and interest to work flexibly across a range of thematic areas and projects simultaneously.
* Highly numerate, with a track record in carrying out complex quantitative analysis.
* Confidence to effectively lead tasks and delegate to colleagues.
* Understanding of and track record in writing winning proposals.
* Fluency in English and excellent report writing skills.
* Ability to explain complex economic concepts to a non-economist audience.
* Demonstrable experience in:
o Economic theory and policy cycle (impact assessment, policy development, evaluation).
o Economic and/or financial modelling, data collection, validation and analysis.
Desirable Competencies and Experience
* Knowledge of how to value health and ecosystem impacts of pollution.
* Knowledge of business models, investment and/or financing for the environment.
* Proficiency in using statistical or mathematical software.
* Business development experience.
* Project management experience.
* Team/staff management or leadership experience.
* Fluency in other European languages.
Skills and Behaviours
* Demonstrate a passion to create a more sustainable world.
* Enjoy solving complex analytical problems.
* Demonstrate exceptional critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
* Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
* Flexible, resilient, and enthusiastic.
* Accurate and attentive to detail.
* Effective and proactive team worker.
* Bring energy and enthusiasm for growing the business.
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.
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.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer working environment.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer. Please advise the recruitment team if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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