Salary: £25,000 to £31,000 plus benefits

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. 

We are currently looking for an Analyst Consultant to join our land team.

Ricardo is seeking to further strengthen its Land business through the appointment of an analyst consultant who will contribute to the delivery of our agricultural advisory programmes and technical projects and policy analysis.  

Key responsibilities

The successful candidate will support a range of exciting and innovative projects within our Land team. You will work alongside our project managers and technical experts to provide high quality support for the delivery of projects and programmes. The role will include, research, data analysis, report writing, organising events, drafting communications, helpline support (phone and email), and supporting the preparation of proposals responding to our clients’ needs. Managing your time across several projects and will be responsible for the quality of your work, liaising with other consultants to incorporate your contribution into wider project outputs. Have, or be keen to develop, an understanding or expertise in land management, regulatory, or environmental systems and their interactions with farming, food and the environment. 

Key competencies and experience

• A Bachelors (2.1 or above) in a scientific subject.
• An interest in agricultural and environmental policy.
• Understanding of the interactions between land management and the environment, particularly, climate, air quality, biodiversity, water and soil.
• High accuracy with strong attention to detail and the ability to scrutinise data.
• Have personal drive and determination to succeed, be self-determining and able to positively contribute to the team.
• Strong communications skills (both written and oral), and confident comfortable providing helpline support by telephone.
• Interest and awareness of key environmental, biodiversity and climate change policies and issues.

Skills and behaviours

• Strong numeracy skills and an interest and talent for data analysis are essential.
• Very good IT skills in commonly used software, e.g. Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Access).
• Effective communication skills, both written and oral and basic presentation skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Self-reliant and proactive with good problem-solving skills.
• Flexibility, resilience and enthusiasm.
• Strong team working skills.
• Relevant work experience is an advantage, but not essential.

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.