Senior Scientist Climate & Atmospheric
Senior Scientist Climate & Atmospheric
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Job Description
Do you want your work to make a difference for NSW
Together we create thriving environments communities and economies.
- Senior Climate Scientist/Modeller (Environmental Officer Class 9)
- Salary relative to experience and ranges from $120701 to $134460 super and leave loading
- Ongoing fulltime (35 hours per week) position based in Lidcombe but with flexible work location arrangements
Our growing team of climate scientists are seeking to appoint a Senior Scientist who is passionate about delivering robust and rigorous stateoftheart impactful climate science and modelling that can be used by a wide variety of stakeholders across government industry and academia.
About You
Are you experienced in conducting climate/earth system science projects and statistical/geospatial analyses and visualisations of large multidimensional climate model data sets using coding languages such as Python R and developing associated earth system models Are you excited to work within a growing team delivering stateoftheart regional climate projections as part of the NSW and Australian Regional Climate Modelling (NARCliM) programme and to deliver impactful projects in climate extremes and climate risk
Essential requirements
- A PhD in climate science/climate modelling; atmospheric physics; physical oceanography ideally followed by a postdoctoral position at a leading research institution.
- Experience working with global and regional climate models and data including NARCliM2.0 and other Australian and international models.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering rigorous science projects in climate and/or earth system science.
- Demonstrated expertise in climate change topics pertinent to NSW especially climate mode (e.g. ENSO SAM IOD MJO) variation and their associated influences on the regional climate of Australia including changes in regional precipitation and fire weather; climate extreme events like storms floods droughts heatwaves and fire weather under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios.
- Experience conducting statistically rigorous assessments conducting spatial analyses of large data sets and developing associated models.
- Demonstrated expert level coding skills in at least one of Python R MATLAB and an enthusiasm to advance this key skill.
- Passion for writing wellstructured welltested maintainable performant and welldocumented code with an emphasis on scientific code.
- Demonstrated experience of HighPerformance Computing technology / cloud computing environments.
- Strong peerreviewed publication record relative to opportunity
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
For more information read the full Role description:Senior Scientist Climate Research
About Us
In our inclusive and accessible workplace differences are embraced contributions are valued and everyone has a sense of connection and belonging. DCCEEW supports various employee affinity groups practice flexible working offer job share and workplace adjustments.
To Apply
If excited by the information above we look forward to receiving your application including a copy of your resume and cover letter expressing how you meet the Essential Requirements listed above.
Applications close Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 11:55PM.
Should you require further information about the role please contact Dr Giovanni Di Virgilio via or.
A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.
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Employment Type
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