Research Associate Programmer-SEI
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Job Summary
1. Climate Data Analysis and Systems Development
- Develop manage and analyze high-resolution climate datasets (e.g. ENACTS products combining station satellite and reanalysis data).
- Conduct statistical and geospatial analysis to support climate monitoring variability and change assessments.
- Develop workflows and tools (primarily in Python and R) for data processing analysis and visualization.
- Contribute to the development and enhancement of climate data platforms (e.g. Maprooms APIs decision-support tools).
2. Capacity Building and Training
- Design and deliver technical training for NMHS and RCC staff and sectoral users.
- Support training-of-trainers approaches to scale climate services uptake.
- Work closely with partners to strengthen institutional capacity in climate data management analysis and use.
3. Modeling and Forecasting Applications
- Support numerical modeling efforts including regional and weather models (e.g. PyCPT WRF RegCM).
- Contribute to climate diagnostics seasonal forecasting and scenario analysis.
- Apply modeling outputs to sectoral applications (agriculture water health DRM).
4. Research and Knowledge Generation
- Conduct applied research on climate services climate variability and climate change impacts.
- Contribute to technical reports policy briefs and peer-reviewed publications.
- Translate climate data into actionable climate information for decision-making.
- Masters degree (or bachelors with 5-year experience) in Meteorology Atmospheric Science Climate Science Physics Mathematics or related field.
- At least 3 years of relevant professional experience preferably working at NMHSs or climate-related institutions.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to research operational climate services or technical project implementation.
- Strong understanding of:
o Climate data systems and observational networks
o Climate analysis and forecasting processes
o Climate service delivery frameworks.
Required Skills:
Masters degree (or bachelors with 5-year experience) in Meteorology Atmospheric Science Climate Science Physics Mathematics or related field. At least 3 years of relevant professional experience preferably working at NMHSs or climate-related institutions. Demonstrated experience contributing to research operational climate services or technical project implementation. Strong understanding of: o Climate data systems and observational networks o Climate analysis and forecasting processes o Climate service delivery frameworks.
