Role: Senior Consultant Climate Change Adaptation

Location: London, Harwell, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Madrid, Brussels - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-3093

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world 

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. 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. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. 

The Role 

You will contribute to the delivery of consultancy projects that have a focus on climate adaptation and resilience. This will include supporting local, regional and national governments with their climate adaptation planning processes. You will also support business development activities. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Manage and deliver adaptation projects for local, regional and national governments, which may include the following: 
• Climate data gathering and processing: climate projections, databases and climate indices 
• Assessing climate vulnerabilities and risks  
• Delivering spatial climate risk assessments. 
• Identifying and prioritising effective adaptation options 
• Assessing adaptation-mitigation co-benefits 
• Mainstreaming adaptation into sectoral policies, strategies and funds 
• Developing costed implementation plans for adaptation actions, and associated finance strategies 
• Developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks (including indicators) for adaptation policies, plans, and programmes. 
• Preparing concept note and/or funding proposals to the Green Climate Fund, the Adaptation Fund and related facilities. 
• Manage and contribute to business development activities, including the preparation of proposals. 
• Participate in capacity building activities including workshop facilitation and delivery. 

Key Competencies and Experience:  

• Higher degree in a numerate/scientific subject, or equivalent academic experience 
• Understanding of adaptation planning processes, and experience in adaptation planning at city, sub-national and/or national level. 
• Experience (more than 5 years) of undertaking at least three of the types of adaptation-related activities listed above. 
• Experience (more than 5 years) of working in a consultancy environment  
• Experience of facilitating virtual and face-to-face stakeholder consultations, workshops, and capacity-building events 
• Strong literacy in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint 

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Knowledge of international climate change policy (e.g. UNFCCC) regarding adaptation 
• Application of GIS and geoprocessing techniques 
• Experience of working in different cultural environments 
• Fluency in a second language (English, French, Spanish) 
• Experience of designing adaptation and/or climate proofed projects  
• Experience delivering services to private sector partners (reporting, physical risks assessments, materiality assessments) 
• Familiarity with AI applications in environmental or climate contexts   

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@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.