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Job description

Responsibilities

Scientific Leadership and Strategy

• Provide scientific leadership across the team’s areas of expertise, ensuring the team’s work reflects state-of-the-art science on climate system response, emissions pathway assessment, climate projections, emulators, observations, regional climate information and science synthesis.
• Build and maintain the team’s contribution to Climate Analytics’ work on minimizing the magnitude and duration of 1.5°C overshoot, including the quantitative climate assessment of the implications of different scenarios, policies and mitigation choices for peak warming, duration of overshoot, return below 1.5°C, impacts and residual risks.
• Set and drive the team’s direction identifying priorities for scientific growth and ensuring the team’s structure remains agile as new scientific opportunities and policy demands arise.
• Champion a culture of scientific excellence, intellectual honesty and ambitious thinking, and uphold scientific integrity across the team’s work.
• Oversee scientific quality assurance for major outputs, ensuring methodological robustness, transparency, consistency and appropriate treatment of uncertainty, and ensure rapid-response analysis meets the same scientific standards as longer-form research.
• Promote innovation in methods, tools, datasets, modelling workflows, climate services and communication products - pushing the team to apply sharp analytical thinking and emerging approaches (including digital and AI-enabled platforms where appropriate) to make science more responsive and accessible.
• Maintain an active personal research agenda and strengthen the team’s publication record, including peer-reviewed papers, flagship reports, high-quality tools and policy-relevant analysis.
• Support work of the team on the quantitative assessment of the climate implications of short-lived climate forcers, methane, land-use emissions, carbon dioxide removal, net zero, net negative emissions, false solutions (e.g. solar radiation modification) and other drivers of overshoot outcomes.
• Ensure strong scientific integration between quantitative assessment of the implications of emissions pathways, climate system response, climate emulators (including FAIR, MAGICC, MESMER), observations, impact analysis and policy interpretation.
• Establish regular joint planning with the Impacts, Adaptation and Loss & Damage Team on cross-cutting scientific priorities, and promote a “one science function” culture across the two teams, supporting shared standards, transparent communication, and practical collaboration.

Climate Risk Assessment and Science Synthesis

• Provide strategic leadership for climate risk assessments services and regional climate services work, primarily in support of LDCs and SIDS, and other vulnerable countries.
• Support the development and application of tools, datasets and services that translate climate science into usable information, linking global climate science and regional, sectoral and decision-relevant information.
• Lead the team’s contribution to scientific synthesis across Climate Analytics, including internal briefings, external reports, policy-relevant assessments, rapid interpretation of emerging literature and effective contributions to IPCC AR7 and other major scientific assessments.
• Strengthen Climate Analytics’ internal capacity to interpret and communicate new developments in climate science, including physical climate science, overshoot, impacts, uncertainty, tipping risks and regional projections, and counter scientific misinformation in public, media and scientific spaces.
• Work closely with the Climate Policy Team, the Impacts, Adaptation and Loss and Damage Team, the Implementation Strategies Team, the Climate Diplomacy Team, regional offices and communications colleagues so that Climate Analytics’ policy, diplomacy, implementation and regional work is grounded in robust, up-to-date climate science.

Project Delivery, Portfolio Development and Fundraising

• Lead the team’s development of projects, programmes and proposals in the team’s areas of expertise, building toward scalable, programmatic impact.
• Identify and cultivate strategic funding opportunities and partnerships with research, philanthropic, institutional, bilateral, European and multilateral funders, scientific institutions, modelling groups, universities, and international organisations.
• Support group leads and senior staff in concept development, proposal writing, impact framing, partnership-building and fundraising, while strengthening their capacity to develop and lead high-quality opportunities.
• Ensure cross-team projects, proposals and publications are designed jointly from an early stage, with clear roles, workflows, resourcing, quality assurance and decision points.
• Oversee the team’s portfolio and project delivery, ensuring quality, timeliness, strategic relevance, and financial sustainability.

External Representation and Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent Climate Analytics externally in the team’s areas of expertise, including scientific conferences, workshops, media engagements, funder meetings and international processes.
• Strengthen Climate Analytics’ visibility and influence on physical climate science, climate pathways, climate services, science synthesis and overshoot.
• Build and maintain relationships with leading scientists, research institutions, modelling groups, international organisations, funders and policy stakeholders.
• Strengthen Climate Analytics’ partnerships with regional scientific institutions and stakeholders in vulnerable countries, ensuring science is co-developed and useful in their contexts.
• Support Climate Analytics’ leadership role in international debates on the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal, overshoot, climate risk and science-policy relevance and engage substantively in the scientific and public discourse, including under media scrutiny, in collaboration with the Communications Team.

People Leadership and Team Management

• Lead and manage the team, including line management, mentorship and professional development of group leads and senior staff.
• Foster a high-performing, inclusive and scientifically ambitious team culture that values scientific excellence, clarity, collaboration and accountability.
• Set clear expectations for quality, delivery, publication, fundraising, teamwork and external engagement.
• Recruit, develop and retain outstanding scientists; lead strategic recruitment to identify technical profiles needed to strengthen the team’s scientific capacity.
• Support group leads in workload management, recruitment, onboarding, performance management and staff development.
• Foster a respectful, inclusive culture with zero tolerance for harassment, discrimination or abuse of authority; ensure accountability for team performance against organisational standards, gender parity and diversity objectives.

Your profile

• PhD or equivalent research experience in Earth system science, physical climate science, climate modelling, physical climate impacts, or a closely related field.
• At least 10 years of relevant professional experience beyond PhD or equivalent senior research experience, including substantial scientific leadership.
• Strong publication record and recognised scientific credibility as a lead or senior author.
• Strong scientific networks across research institutions, modelling groups and international climate science communities.
• Demonstrated experience leading scientific teams, research groups or major interdisciplinary programmes.
• Strong understanding of earth/climate system response to GHG forcing, the climate assessment of emissions pathways, of global and regional climate modelling and/or emulators, for assessing the implications of different mitigation pathways for climate outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain scientific integrity and quality assurance across complex outputs and interdisciplinary teams.
• Experience working at the science-policy interface and translating technical science into clear, decision-useful analysis.
• High level ability for communicating on climate science development to and for media, stakeholders and policy makers
• Strong track record of developing proposals, building partnerships and securing external funding - ideally including multi-year grants from competitive source.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong management, mentoring and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work across teams, disciplines, cultures and geographies.
• Willingness to travel internationally.

• Experience with climate systems emulators such as MAGICC, FaIR, and/or development and application of impact emulators such as MESMER-X, sea-level rise assessment frameworks, regional climate modelling and tool development.
• Experience with IPCC assessment processes, especially AR6, SR1.5 or AR7-related work.
• Experience with UNFCCC processes, climate negotiations or international policy-facing science.
• Experience supporting SIDS, LDCs or other vulnerable countries with climate science, climate services or decision-support analysis.
• Experience supervising PhD students or maintaining academic affiliations.
• Experience with open science workflows, reproducible analysis, digital tools, data visualisation or web-based climate information products.
• Additional languages, especially German, French, Spanish, Portuguese.

Our offer

• Fully funded Germany-wide public transport ticket
• 40 € monthly company contribution to Urban Sports Club membership
• Online mental health and wellbeing platform
• Free German language classes
• Bike rental discount
• Optional company pension plan
• Hybrid office policy and flexible start time

About us

Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute established in 2008 that delivers cutting-edge science, analysis and support to accelerate climate action and keep global warming below 1.5°C. Our international team is composed of roughly 170 staff. Half are based at our headquarters in Berlin, Germany, and the remainder work out of our five regional offices in Africa, Australia & Pacific, the Caribbean, South Asia and North America. Click here to find out more.