Contract Type: Freelance 

Duration: As required - This is not a permanent role, this is a freelance contractor role to assist with busy projects.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategic communication plans tailored to programme objectives. 
• Craft compelling content for diverse channels, including press releases, social media, websites, newsletters, and reports. 
• Manage and grow our on-line presence, ensuring consistent branding and tone. 
• Strategic development and logistical delivery of events.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external clients to align messaging across all touch-points. 
• Monitor and evaluate communication campaigns, providing actionable insights for improvement. 
• Build and maintain relationships with key media outlets and influencer's. 

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven experience in communications, public relations, or a related field. 
• Exceptional writing, editing, and verbal communication skills. 
• Events management and planning.
• Expertise in digital communication strategies and tools, including social media platforms, analytics, and content management systems. 
• Strong understanding of branding and storytelling principles. 
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines. 
• Proactive, adaptable, and detail-oriented approach to work. 

Desirable

• Previous experience in freelance or consulting roles. 
• Established network of media contacts. Knowledge of the European media landscape and established media contacts is particularly desirable.  

• Proficiency in graphic design or video production is a plus.

Working with Ricardo

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.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

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.

How to Apply:

Please submit your CV, a brief cover letter, 2–3 samples of your previous work, and your hourly and day rates. We will contact selected candidates, and if successful, we will add you to our list of approved suppliers.   

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.