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About the Role
The Head of the Earth System Science and 1.5°C Overshoot Team provides scientific leadership for Climate Analytics, focusing on physical climate science risks, quantitative assessment of overshoot, and climate system implications of emissions pathways. This role involves leading a scientifically strong, agile, and externally visible team to deliver cutting-edge science and support vulnerable countries. The position requires bridging physical science, policy relevance, communications, and organizational strategy at the science-policy interface.
Responsibilities
- Provide scientific leadership across the team’s areas of expertise, ensuring state-of-the-art science on climate system response, emissions pathway assessment, climate projections, and regional climate information.
- Build and maintain the team’s contribution to minimizing the magnitude and duration of 1.5°C overshoot, including quantitative assessment of implications of different scenarios and mitigation choices.
- Set and drive the team’s direction, identifying priorities for scientific growth and ensuring team agility.
- Champion a culture of scientific excellence, intellectual honesty, and ambitious thinking, upholding scientific integrity.
- Oversee scientific quality assurance for major outputs, ensuring methodological robustness, transparency, and appropriate treatment of uncertainty.
- Promote innovation in methods, tools, datasets, modelling workflows, climate services, and communication products, applying sharp analytical thinking and emerging approaches.
- Maintain an active personal research agenda and strengthen the team’s publication record.
- Support work on the quantitative assessment of climate implications of short-lived climate forcers, methane, carbon dioxide removal, net zero, and other drivers of overshoot outcomes.
- Ensure strong scientific integration between quantitative assessment of emissions pathways, climate system response, climate emulators, observations, impact analysis, and policy interpretation.
- Establish regular joint planning with the Impacts, Adaptation and Loss & Damage Team on cross-cutting scientific priorities.
- Provide strategic leadership for climate risk assessments and regional climate services, primarily in support of LDCs and SIDS.
- Support the development and application of tools, datasets, and services that translate climate science into usable information.
- Lead the team’s contribution to scientific synthesis across Climate Analytics, including internal briefings, external reports, and rapid interpretation of emerging literature.
- Strengthen Climate Analytics’ internal capacity to interpret and communicate new developments in climate science and counter scientific misinformation.
- Work closely with other teams and offices to ensure policy, diplomacy, implementation, and regional work is grounded in robust climate science.
- Lead the team’s development of projects, programmes, and proposals, building toward scalable, programmatic impact.
- Identify and cultivate strategic funding opportunities and partnerships with research, philanthropic, institutional, and international funders.
- Support group leads and senior staff in concept development, proposal writing, and fundraising.
- Ensure cross-team projects, proposals, and publications are designed jointly from an early stage.
- Oversee the team’s portfolio and project delivery, ensuring quality, timeliness, strategic relevance, and financial sustainability.
- Represent Climate Analytics externally in the team’s areas of expertise.
- Strengthen Climate Analytics’ visibility and influence on physical climate science, climate pathways, and overshoot.
- Build and maintain relationships with leading scientists, research institutions, and policy stakeholders.
- Strengthen Climate Analytics’ partnerships with regional scientific institutions and stakeholders in vulnerable countries.
- Support Climate Analytics’ leadership role in international debates on the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal and overshoot.
- Lead and manage the team, including line management, mentorship, and professional development.
- Foster a high-performing, inclusive, and scientifically ambitious team culture.
- Set clear expectations for quality, delivery, publication, fundraising, teamwork, and external engagement.
- Recruit, develop, and retain outstanding scientists, identifying needed technical profiles.
- 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 organizational standards, gender parity, and diversity objectives.
Requirements
- 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 recognized 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, climate assessment of emissions pathways, global and regional climate modelling and/or emulators.
- 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 policymakers.
- Strong track record of developing proposals, building partnerships, and securing external funding.
- 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.
Skills
- Earth system science
- Physical climate science
- Climate modelling
- Climate risk assessment
- Emissions pathway assessment
- Scientific synthesis
- Project management
- Fundraising
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team leadership
- Mentorship
- Communication
- Climate systems emulators (MAGICC, FaIR)
- Impact emulators (MESMER-X)
- IPCC assessment processes
- UNFCCC processes
- Supporting SIDS, LDCs
- Open science workflows
- Reproducible analysis
- Digital tools
- Data visualisation
- Web-based climate information products
Location
- Berlin, Germany
Work Type
- Hybrid office policy
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior scientist
- At least 10 years of relevant professional experience beyond PhD
Education Level
- PhD or equivalent research experience
Salary/Compensations
- Between EUR 103,781 and EUR 114,418 gross annually
Benefits
- 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
- Flexible start time
- 29 days paid annual leave + one day gifted around Christmas
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a diverse and inclusive team and welcome your application regardless of your gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect that makes you unique.