Associate ESG Consultant

Ricardo; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy is seeking an Associate ESG Consultant to enhance their ESG efforts and contribute to climate strategy development. This role involves engaging with clients, providing guidance on sustainability strategies, and ensuring compliance with industry standards like TCFD and GRI. Join a diverse team dedicated to creating a sustainable future.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in climate risk assessments and strategies aligned with TCFD.
• Strong understanding of climate science and risk management strategies.
• Experience in leading assurance engagements.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance on climate strategies and sustainability reporting.
• Conduct risk assessments and develop tailored ESG solutions for clients.
• Engage in stakeholder activities including workshops and interviews.

Skills

Climate strategy development

Sustainability reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Job description

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

• 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.

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Created on 22/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom