Your responsibilities
We are currently seeking Senior Climate Science Data Analyst to lead the Climate Services and Tools Group in Climate Analytics. Initially, the incumbent will predominantly work on the current flagship Horizon project – the Forest Navigator.
The Climate services and tools group brings high-quality, state-of-the-art climate risk and adaptation data to policy makers and adaptation practitioners in order to facilitate climate action. To this end, Climate Analytics has developed open-access, user-friendly and interactive online tools that make climate impact projections or policy analysis outcomes easily available to policymakers, journalists, NGO staff members and researchers. These tools can be accessed via this page. Several other tools are currently under development, or will start being developed in the next months.
The ForestNavigator project is funded by the European Commission under the HorizonEurope scheme, started in October 2022 and will end in September 2026. The scientific consortium working on the project is led by IIASA (based in Laxenburg, Austria), but is made up of more than 20 international (mostly EU-based) institutions. In this project, Climate Analytics is responsible for the co-development with policymakers and other stakeholders of two webtools visualizing important scientific outcomes of the project. The first tool will enable exploration of high-resolution information about the health status, carbon sequestration potential and other ecosystem services provided by European forests. The second tool will offer information on possible policy scenarios for forest management to the EU member states. The information visualized in the webtools will be directly derived from data generated by forestry scientists and modelers from the ForestNavigator consortium.
The analysis of the data and its preparation for integration on the webtools is performed in-house at Climate Analytics, and supported by exchanges with the ForestNavigator partners, in particular with IIASA. IIASA is responsible for some of the back-end development, particularly the validation of the datasets generated as part of the project, their storage on their servers, as well as the creation of APIs to access those data. The front-end development will be done by web designers subcontracted by Climate Analytics.
Your Responsibilities
Manage and guide the Climate Services and Tools work at CA
Group Management
The Climate services and tools group brings high-quality, state-of-the-art climate risk and adaptation data to policy makers and adaptation practitioners in order to facilitate climate action. To this end, Climate Analytics has developed open-access, user-friendly and interactive online tools that make climate impact projections or policy analysis outcomes easily available to policymakers, journalists, NGO staff members and researchers. These tools can be accessed via this page. Several other tools are currently under development, or will start being developed in the next months.
The ForestNavigator project is funded by the European Commission under the HorizonEurope scheme, started in October 2022 and will end in September 2026. The scientific consortium working on the project is led by IIASA (based in Laxenburg, Austria), but is made up of more than 20 international (mostly EU-based) institutions. In this project, Climate Analytics is responsible for the co-development with policymakers and other stakeholders of two webtools visualizing important scientific outcomes of the project. The first tool will enable exploration of high-resolution information about the health status, carbon sequestration potential and other ecosystem services provided by European forests. The second tool will offer information on possible policy scenarios for forest management to the EU member states. The information visualized in the webtools will be directly derived from data generated by forestry scientists and modelers from the ForestNavigator consortium.
The analysis of the data and its preparation for integration on the webtools is performed in-house at Climate Analytics, and supported by exchanges with the ForestNavigator partners, in particular with IIASA. IIASA is responsible for some of the back-end development, particularly the validation of the datasets generated as part of the project, their storage on their servers, as well as the creation of APIs to access those data. The front-end development will be done by web designers subcontracted by Climate Analytics.
Your Responsibilities
Manage and guide the Climate Services and Tools work at CA
- Coordinate the development of webtools to be developed as part of the ForestNavigator project:
- Set up processes to ensure the timely articulation of the various contributions feeding into the development of the webtools
- Oversee the data processing for the webtools developed as part of the ForestNavigator project
- Exchange with the scientists/modelers producing the data to understand their scientific relevance and identify appropriate data processing methods.
- Ensure the implementation of good standards for scientific programming and working with GitHub or GitLab to ensure reproducibility of your work
- Collaborate closely with web designers in charge of the front-end development of the webtools, to advise them about how to visualise the scientific messages extracted from the data, make sure that they receive data in the right format and check the scientific accuracy of the visualisations they will produce as a result
- Actively participate in meetings with colleagues aimed at advancing the conceptualisation of the tools, to provide your perspective on the technical feasibility and implications
- Oversee the debugging of the Beta version of the tool, refine the data processing procedures and identify how to address potential issues of relevance for the users
- Provide technical guidance and advice for the maintenance and further development of Climate Analytics’ webtool environment
- Lead development of other tools as the need arises
- Conduct and lead research and analysis aligned with the groups focus and general vision of Climate Analytics
- Lead-PI for projects in their area of expertise
- Provide overall direction and leadership to their group and encourage the preparation and publication of peer-reviewed papers
- Strategic development of their field of research at Climate Analytics, in coordination with other team leaders
- Leading proposal development in their area of expertise
Group Management
- Line management responsibilities
- Day-to-day supervision of content work in the relevant group.
- Performance Reviews in consultation with ST Lead
- Support ST Lead in long-term staff planning and development.
- Facilitation of group outputs
- Quality assurance of content delivery
- Delivery assurance of project products including projects for which the lead lies within the group as well as project group members contribute to
- Contact point for support to other teams
- Provide scientific advice on the group topic internally to non-science colleagues and externally to stake-holders/within projects
- Participate in relevant thematic and coordination meetings
- Maintain communication and coordination with Science Team lead
- Coordinate on staff and capacity planning with science Team lead
- Establish and maintain research networks, and contribute to relevant scientific assessment processes
- Present results of scientific work and analyses to relevant audiences, media and/or stakeholders
- Represent Climate Analytics in their area of expertise