Junior Economist

Overview

Role: Junior Economist

Location: London, Bristol, Manchester, Harwell, Glasgow,  Hybrid remote / In-office

Role ID: 2023-2077

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

In response to our recent successes, we are expanding our Environmental Policy team. We have a vacancy for a Junior Economist to work on a range of exciting and innovative projects.

The role will provide support on projects focusing on the thematic areas for the team, namely: air quality and emissions, industrial pollution control, chemicals management, and natural capital. The role will primarily focus on providing support to one thematic areas (but with the option to contribute at time to other thematic areas).

Key Responsibilities:

We are seeking an intelligent and self-motivated recent graduate with an economics degree to join the Environmental Policy team.

As a Junior Economist, you will support the delivery of projects, managing your time across several projects and business areas. You will be responsible for the delivery of tasks assigned to you, meeting time, cost and quality requirements, to ensure client satisfaction. From day one, you'll be part of a team supporting senior colleagues in delivering a portfolio of high-profile projects to clients. Specific tasks are likely to include researching and analysing information and data, developing economic models, contributing to reports and presentations that are delivered to clients, through to supporting the preparation of proposals to win new contracts.

The role will provide support on projects focusing on the thematic areas for the team, namely: air quality and emissions, industrial pollution control, chemicals management, and natural capital. The role will primarily focus on providing support to one thematic areas (but with the option to contribute at time to other thematic areas).

Key Competencies and Experience

• Educated to Master’s degree level: studies in economics.
• An understanding of European and/or international environmental policy issues, gained during studies or work experience.
• A professional and diligent approach: accurate and attentive to detail
• Fluency in English
• Effective oral and written communication, including concise and precise report writing
• Strong computer literacy - especially in Microsoft Excel and Word
• Be flexible, proactive, resilient and enthusiastic
• Exceptional critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
• A passion for the drive to create a more sustainable world, and a clear motivation to work for Ricardo and align with its values
• Be able to work independently and demonstrate initiative, as well as be an effective and proactive team worker, capable of supporting and developing peers and other staff members

Desirable:

• Fluency in Spanish or other European languages
• Data science capability, including knowledge of Python
• Relevant work experience / Internship in: environmental consultancy, Government, or academic research / think-tank
• Understanding of one or both of the following:
• Policy cycle (ex-ante impact assessment of policies  and regulations, policy development and implementation, ex-post evaluation of policies and programmes)
• Tools and methods: EU databases, cost-benefit analysis, survey design and execution, behavioural/ experimental economics
• An understanding of structural economic modelling, Input – Output analysis, international trade theory, experience with econometric analysis and optimization techniques, e.g. General Algebraic

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.

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.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.