ESG Sustainability Associate

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Ricardo Full time

Role: ESG Sustainability Associate

Location: UK / London / Harwell / Shoreham / Manchester / Bristol / Glasgow – Hybrid

About Us

Ricardo is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consultancy that helps 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.

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.
  • 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.

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