Job Description

Salary - \xc2\xa336,245 to \xc2\xa338,463 Depending on experience
Hybrid working (50/50)
Fixed Term until November 2025
We will review applications upon receipt. We reserve the right to close this advert if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early.

UKCEH is looking for an experienced Scenario Analyst to join our 600-strong team, contributing to scientific discovery and generating the data, insights and solutions that researchers, businesses and governments need to solve complex environmental challenges.

Working at UKCEH is rewarding. Our science makes a real difference, enabling people and the environment to prosper, and enriching society. We are the custodians of a wealth of environmental data, collected by UKCEH and its predecessors over the course of more than 60 years.

As a valued member of our team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll get:

27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years

10% employer pension contribution

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

24 hour, 365-day access to support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues plus access to our trained Welfare Officers

Flexible working opportunities

And much more...

You\xe2\x80\x99ll be joining our Community and Restoration Ecology Group, within our ! Working with an enthusiastic team of researchers exploring the challenges of developing strategies to simultaneously mitigate climate change whilst adapting to its impacts through a co-creative process that works with 5 case studies with a range of real world challenges across a range of sectors and scales.

You\'ll be working closely with case study stakeholders, social scientists and impact modellers to develop, quantify and qualitatively interpret strategies developed by stakeholders through co-creation workshops. In this role you\xe2\x80\x99ll have contribute to parameterise models, contribute to workshop development and contribute to publications and deliverables that develop from the work.

This role will suit someone with a flexible approach to working, an eagerness to learn and develop their skill set, proactively collaborate with other members of the team and has experience working with different internal and external stakeholders.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll be joining a leading independent, not-for-profit research institute that\xe2\x80\x99s committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support you need to thrive at UKCEH.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Working with an interdisciplinary, cross-institution team to co-create strategies for adaptation and mitigation of climate change that are robust in the context of both climatic and socio-economic change.

To develop outputs from co-creation workshops with social scientists, impact modellers and decision makers from 5 case studies at a range of scales including national, cross-border, sub-national and city-scale contexts.

To work with impact modellers to parameterise their model inputs so that they respond to the strategies developed and work with social scientists to represent strategies that cannot be parameterised within the models.

To work with workshop teams to interpret model outputs into workshop materials.

To contribute to the development of deliverables and publications that explore the robustness of strategies to socio-economic and climatic futures.

To contribute to the production of policy relevant take home messages from the research within the DISTENDER project.

The team are currently working on the fantastic EU-funded project!

For the role of Scenario Analyst, we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for somebody who has:

A PhD or equivalent experience in an interdisciplinary environmental or social science topic

Knowledge of interactions between climate change mitigation and adaptation, environmental and societal sectors (e.g. agriculture, urban and water)

A range of interdisciplinary skills; spatial data analysis techniques, quantitative research skills and qualitative research skills

Experience of manipulating a wide range of datasets (qualitative and quantitative, spatial and aspatial)

Experience of participatory and co-creative research approaches and workshops

Understanding and/or experience of methods and tools of scenario development

UK Driving licence

If we\xe2\x80\x99ve just described you, we\xe2\x80\x99d love to meet. To apply now, by uploading your CV and completing the application form.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology