Overview
Role: ESG Sustainability Associate
Location: UK / London / Harwell / Shoreham / Manchester / Bristol / Glasgow – Hybrid
Role ID: 2024-2517
About Us
At Ricardo, our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. As a global strategic, environmental and engineering consultancy, we help our clients address complex challenges and work towards a sustainable future. Our ESG team focuses on two main workstreams:
- Sustainability Strategy & Reporting: We assist organisations with compliance to ESG reporting frameworks and standards, as well as developing and implementing ESG strategies and reporting processes.
- Climate Strategy & Reporting: We help organisations assess and manage climate-related risks and opportunities.
As our workload grows, we are seeking experienced Associate ESG Consultants to join our team on an ad-hoc basis, providing support across both workstreams.
Role Overview
As an Associate ESG Consultant, you will play a key role in supporting our expanding projects by leveraging your expertise in climate strategy and sustainability reporting. Your contributions will directly shape and enhance our client’s ESG efforts.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert guidance in developing and implementing climate strategies and reporting, including risk assessments and scenario analysis aligned with TCFD.
- Assist in preparing sustainability strategies and reports, including materiality assessments (impact, financial and double materiality) in line with ESG standards such as GRI, ISSB, SASB and CSRD.
- Engage with clients to understand their needs and deliver tailored ESG solutions.
- Contribute to deliverables such as detailed reports, risk assessments and sustainability reports.
- Support stakeholder engagement activities, including workshops and interviews.
- Conduct sustainability assurance tasks, including data analysis and evaluating reports for compliance with standards such as GRI, SASB and TCFD.
Key Experience And Skills
Climate Strategy & Reporting
- Proven experience in developing and delivering climate risk assessments and strategies, aligned with frameworks like TCFD and CDP.
- Strong understanding of climate science, scenario analysis and risk management strategies.
- Ability to turn climate-related data into actionable insights and produce detailed climate reports.
Sustainability Strategy & Reporting
- Expertise in conducting materiality assessments and sustainability reporting, following frameworks such as GRI, ISSB, SASB and CSRD.
- In-depth knowledge of emerging ESG reporting trends and sustainability challenges across various sectors.
- Experience leading stakeholder engagement activities including interviews and workshops.
Sustainability assurance
Experience in leading assurance engagements, including data analysis and evaluating sustainability reports for compliance with global standards.
- Assist in evaluating ESG metrics across various industries to ensure accuracy and reliability, in accordance with assurance standards such as ISAE 3000, AA1000AS and ISO 14064.
- Ability to prepare audit documentation and reports, ensuring quality and adherence to assurance protocols.
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.
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.