Academic Officer – Head of Climate Risk Analytics (FTA-P3)

United Nations University Institute in Macau; Bonn; Vor Ort; EUR 100.000 - 125.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An international research institute in Bonn is seeking a Climate Risk Analytics Manager. This role involves leading a team, managing research budgets, and developing innovative quantitative methods to analyze climate risk. Candidates should have a PhD and at least five years of relevant experience. An attractive compensation package is offered, including annual leave and health benefits.

Leistungen

30 days annual leave

Tax exempt compensation package

Health insurance scheme

Pension plan

Qualifikationen

• PhD in environmental engineering, economics or geography.
• At least 5 years of experience in risk analytics or climate change adaptation.
• Ability to lead large teams with strong project management skills.

Aufgaben

• Manage the Team on Climate Risk Analytics.
• Oversee budget and financial resources for research objectives.
• Guide Development of quantitative methods for climate risk.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Project management

Quantitative methods

Climate adaptation

Remote sensing

Financial management

Communication skills

Ausbildung

PhD in environmental engineering, economics, geography

Tools

Matlab

Python

Jobbeschreibung

The United Nations University (UNU) is a global think tank and postgraduate teaching organization within the United Nations System. UNU engages in policy-relevant research, capacity development, and knowledge dissemination in furtherance of the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

For the past five decades, UNU has been a source of impartial research on sustainability, human security, and economic development. With hundreds of researchers working at institutes in 12 countries, UNU's expertise spans the full breadth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, generating policy-relevant knowledge to effect positive global change.

About Institute (UNU-EHS)

The United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) was established in 2003 in Bonn, Germany. The institute conducts research work focusing on advancing human security and well-being by addressing present and future risks arising from environmental hazards and climate change.

The Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) is hosted at UNU-EHS and is a research-to-policy and practice innovation lab. MCII aims to support and ultimately influence policy making processes that enhance resilience and protect livelihoods of vulnerable communities, through pioneering risk management and risk transfer solutions.

Climate Risk Analytics

The Risk analytics team entails a portfolio of projects by MCII, relying on quantitative methods to better understand and inform on climate risk.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Team on Climate Risk Analytics
• Manage the overall budget and financial resources with integrity and ensure the effective utilization for research and policy objectives in line with UNU regulations.
• Provide leadership, mentorship and oversight to a large team of UNU experts, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and academically vibrant environment conducive to rigorous research enquiry, method development, and scientific growth.
• Oversee the strategic implementation of the climate risk analytics research agenda, leading strategic engagement and fostering interdisciplinary cooperation with other divisions and partners to enhance UNU’s scientific profile
• Enable fruitful collaborations with other thematic divisions and integrate its work across the institute.
• Lead Research and Knowledge Management in Climate Risk Analytics
• Develop and steer the strategic research agenda for climate risk analytics at UNU-EHS, driving research enquiry and enhancing the Institute's scientific profile.
• Lead and drive the development, application, and promotion of advanced and innovative quantitative methods, modelling techniques, and tools to advance research enquiry into climate risk.
• Lead and contribute to the publication of research findings resulting from rigorous research enquiry in high-impact international peer-reviewed journals and other relevant scientific outlets.
• Promote open-data and open-source climate risk approaches and contribute substantively to the evolution of key global modelling frameworks.
• Represent UNU-EHS in relevant international research consortia and groups.

Qualifications

• PhD in environmental engineering, economics, geography with a background in remote sensing, climate adaptation and/or hazard modelling;
• At least five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in the context of risk analytics, climate change adaptation or similar;
• Excellent understanding of the international research and stakeholder landscape in climate risk analytics.
• Documented ability to lead large teams of experts; strong project management skills, including financial management;
• Good understanding of relevant modelling approaches with excellent command of Matlab and/or Python;
• Ability to explain complex processes to non-experts audiences;
• Initiative seeker with an interest to professionally expand into new ways of applying and disseminating quantitative climate risk analysis and insurance;
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.

UNU offers an attractive, tax exempt compensation package including an annual net salary, 30 days annual leave, dependency benefits, pension plan and health insurance scheme.

This is a full-time, fixed-term appointment. The initial appointment will be for one (1) year with the possibility of renewal on a fixed-term appointment basis, subject to satisfactory work performance.

Starting Date: Immediate

Application Deadline: 28 October 2025