Graduate Consultant - Impact Assessment (2025 Intake)

• Full-time

To be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully. Ensure that you submit all of the relevant documents as PDFs, including the application questions at the bottom of the advert.

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.

At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.

About the Opportunity

The role will involve the opportunity to undertake environmental management and assessment with opportunities to work on both UK national project environmental impact assessments, and International environmental and social impact assessments. The team forms part of Ramboll’s global Impact Assessment Spearhead, a team of over 300 Impact Assessment specialists working across a broad range of sectors.

Key tasks and responsibilities will be:

1. All stages of environmental impact assessment including screening, scoping and preparing Environmental Statements.
2. Environmental management to coordinate environmental disciplines and deliver baseline surveys – opportunities to support surveys in disciplines such as ecology, peat, noise and air quality.
3. Site inspections and walkover surveys.
4. Liaising with design and client teams to programme work and manage the delivery of surveys and of the Environmental Statement.
5. Drafting environmental impact assessment chapters, including Introductory chapters, cumulative assessment chapters and Non-Technical Summaries.
6. Opportunities to develop skills contributing to individual disciplines, and preparation of environmental chapters.
7. Support business development and the preparation of proposals.

Your skills and experience

For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• A Bachelors or Masters level degree in one or more of the following subjects: Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Assessment and Management, Environmental Science, Environmental Management or Geography;
• Experience with IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook;
• Numerically competent;
• Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written;
• Excellent report writing skills.

We don’t expect you to know everything, but that you show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients. Therefore, we believe you have good communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• Hybrid & Flexible Working
• 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
• Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
• Private Medical Insurance
• A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!

Selection Process:

We aim to have applications shortlisted by the beginning of March and we will invite successful candidates to an assessment centre at the beginning of April in our Birmingham office.

How to apply

Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter as PDFs. In a separate PDF document, please address the following questions:

• What are the main environmental challenges where you live, why they are important to you, and how you would help solve them? (max. 500 words)
• What are your top 3 locations if you were offered a role with Ramboll? We are aiming to recruit into our Edinburgh/Birmingham/London/Southampton offices but it would be helpful to know other locations that you could consider in addition to this.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early. We look forward to receiving your application.

Deadline for applications: 17th February 2025

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential.