Senior Consultant - Carbon Pricing Policy

Overview

Role Title: Senior Consultant - Climate Change Policy and Carbon Pricing

Location: London, Harwell, Manchester, Glasgow, Shoreham, Madrid - Hybrid

Job ID: 2024-2658

  

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

  

The Role

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 (£50-150k) 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 and managing medium sized projects and budgets 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 emission 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 measures. 

 

Skills and Behaviours 

• Strong project delivery skills with track record in contributing towards large and/or complex pr