Senior Consultant - Catchment Management

Senior Consultant - Catchment Management

Ricardo Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Overview

Role : Senior Consultant - Catchment Management

Location : United Kingdom and Madrid – Hybrid

Role ID : 2025-3138

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. Ricardo, member of WSP, 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 expertise in delivering cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. We enable our customers to solve complex challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Consultant to join our Land Practice, bringing together our expertise in agricultural, soil, and landscape management with our water management capabilities. You will deliver and lead consultancy projects focused on sustainable catchment management, developing evidence-based solutions that balance land use, food systems, water resources, and environmental outcomes.

You will work within a strong, collaborative team, contribute to growth and innovation in catchment management, help shape new business opportunities, strengthen core capabilities, and engage with stakeholders across the water, regulatory, and environmental sectors.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and deliver projects for clients including governments, utility companies and private companies, which may include the following :

Catchment conceptualisation, data gathering, risk assessment, visualization and climate data gathering and processing : climate projections, databases and climate indices

Assessing catchment vulnerabilities and risks – including impacts of water quality and resources resilience to climate change and biodiversity loss

Delivering spatial catchment risk assessments

Identifying and prioritising effective adaptation and mitigation options (including improvements to agricultural practices or nature-based solutions)

Assessing adaptation and mitigation benefits against key metrics (such as water quality, resources, air quality or biodiversity) as well as identification and quantification of wider benefits.

Developing and embedding catchment plans and strategies into sectoral policies, strategies and funds

Developing costed implementation plans with possible associated finance strategies

Developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks (including indicators) for catchment policies, plans, and programmes

Managing and contributing to business development activities, including the preparation of proposals and proactive client engagement

Participate in capacity building activities including workshop facilitation and delivery

Managing a small team of technical experts

Key Competencies And Experience

A Bachelors (2.1 or above), Masters or PhD in a relevant scientific subject

Experience in catchment management for water quality and / or water resources improvements

Knowledge of nature-based solutions and catchment interventions to reduce diffuse and point source pollution and / or improve water resources management

Good understanding of water, agricultural, land and environmental policy

Good knowledge of the farming systems and the interactions between agricultural production and the environment

Highly numerate 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 business

A strong track record in client relationship management with an ability to manage projects and deliver client outcomes

Strong communications skills, both written and oral to a variety of audiences including leading scientists, politicians and the public

Desirable Competencies And Experience

Proficient use of Microsoft excel (e.g., v lookups, index match) and / or python for data analysis

Experience of geospatial analysis in qGIS or ArcMap

Experience e of environmental models / tools to quantify water quality or resources improvement (e.g., scimap, farmscoper, SAGIS)

Experience in consultancy (proposal writing, project management, client relationship management)

Water industry experience or knowledge of water industry regulation

Skills And Behaviours

Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage time effectively across multiple projects

Excellent communication skills and experience engaging directly with clients and colleagues to deliver high-quality solutions

Proven ability to lead technical, analytical, and policy-focused work, including the preparation of robust technical reports and proposals

Skilled in providing clear, evidence-based advice to clients and internal teams

Confident interacting with professionals across the environmental, water, and agricultural sectors, including policymakers at national and international levels

Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce reports and documentation to a professional standard in English

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.

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.

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 depending on the volume of applications 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.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

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