Water Resources and Drought Planning Consultant (Senior/Principal)

Overview

Role: Water Resources and Drought Planning Consultant (Senior/Principal)

Location: UK Flexible - Remote working allowed

Salary range: £35,000 - £55,000 plus benefits

Role ID: 2023-1746

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

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.

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.

This is a great opportunity to further develop your career through both working with our clients to bring in new projects of work too. There will be a range of water projects such as regional water resources plans, water company drought and water resources plans, drought permit applications and monitoring programmes.

This role forms part of a wider dynamic team of multi-disciplinary water and environmental experts that includes specialists in the fields of water resources, hydro-ecology, ground and surface water hydrology, flood risk, geomorphology, water quality, aquatic and terrestrial ecology, natural capital, environmental impact assessment and planning.

Key responsibilities

• Take the lead in liaising with clients and stakeholders and developing client ownership.
• Provide technical advice to clients related to water resources and drought management, with a focus on environment & planning.
• Carry out technical inputs to analysis and reporting, and review outputs from others on water resources and drought related projects.
• Hold an integral role in identifying new opportunities and bid preparation.
• Support expansion of our offering in water resources within our current water company client portfolio.
• In addition, look at expanding into new sectors within the UK primarily, but there is scope to expand internationally.
• Provide a team mentoring role and/or team leadership for junior colleagues.

Key competencies and experience

• A Degree or Masters-level qualification in a relevant environmental or water resource management field.
• Experience of water resource planning and drought management from an environmental perspective.
• Desirable – experience of groundwater impact assessments.
• Experience of preparing bids for a range of clients.
• A background in consultancy, water companies or regulatory perspective.
• Understanding of the latest regulatory requirements of UK water resources management related to water resource and wider drought planning.
• Experience of developing new and current client portfolios of work.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to write high quality, concise, technical reports.

Skills and behaviours

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Good collaborative team working and communication skills.
• The ability to manage and prioritise workload and assist others in doing so.
• Effective stakeholder liaison and management skills, including keeping clients and internal project staff up to date with progress, programme changes and tasks.
• An ability to manage and work to tight project deadlines and under pressure.
• Track record of provide technical input into winning proposals.
• Ideally gained or be working towards chartership with a relevant profession body.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

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.