Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, part of WSP, 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. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Global Integrated Assessment Modelling team (formerly part of E3Modelling) is developing and applying the models Prometheus and OPEN-PROM. Our focus is the energy transition towards decarbonization, and we apply data science, energy-economy models, and other relevant tools to analyze in detail the shift to a greener energy and economic system. We are looking for a Senior Energy Researcher and Policy Consultant to join our team of experienced researchers and engage with us in further developing and applying our national and global Models for energy and climate policy scenario analysis.  

 Key Responsibilities

• Review and synthesise scientific, technical, and market reports into structured inputs for quantitative modelling and assessment.
• Develop policy-relevant insights, including policy recommendations and policy briefs, based on modelling results.

• Apply global and national energy system and integrated assessment models within EU-funded research projects, providing analytical support to national and international climate policy processes, including contributions to IPCC process
• Draft reports and/or presentations on the energy sector based on model results.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for research and consultancy projects, acting autonomously or in close coordination with senior colleagues as required.
• Contribute to proposal preparation in collaboration and alignment with the unit director and the serior staff.
• Monitor EU and global climate and energy policy developments and assess their implications for ongoing modelling analyses.
• Liaise between modelling teams and policy-oriented work to ensure consistency between quantitative results and narrative outputs
• Support the interpretation, validation, and contextualisation of modelling results for different policy and stakeholder audiences.
• Assist in ensuring quality control and coherence of modelling-related content across project deliverables and reports.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Hold an MSc and/or PhD in engineering, applied mathematics, computational modelling, operations research, mathematical economics, energy/climate policy, or physics.
• Professional experience in energy systems analysis, climate policy and/or integrated assessment modelling, including the development and interpretation of scenarios for policy analysis.
• Preference for applied experience in using analytical and/or modelling tools, with programming knowledge in R,  Matlab, Python, or preferably GAMS.
• Large experience in using the Microsoft Suite, especially excel for data analysis
• Experience translating quantitative modelling results into policy-relevant insights for non-technical audiences (e.g. policymakers, stakeholders, project partners).
• Demonstrated ability to delivering high-quality results.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, with a collaborative attitude and eagerness to learn.
• Strong writing skills, with experience in academic articles, technical reports, or policy reports in English (desirable).
• Fluent in verbal and written communication in English.
• Manage and coordinate research and consultancy projects, either independently or jointly with senior colleagues, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Demonstrated capability to work autonomously on complex analytical tasks, while contributing effectively within multidisciplinary project teams.

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 depending on the role needs. 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.