Scientific Officer

**Your role**:
ECMWF is opening a new position for a **Scientific Officer Extreme Event Attribution (A2)** to join the Evaluation Section in our Forecast and Services Department. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to understanding and communicating how climate change influences extreme weather events, an exciting and rapidly evolving area with high societal relevance.

As Scientific Officer, you will contribute to the development and delivery of extreme event monitoring and attribution products and help communicate findings to a wide range of stakeholders. You will act as a contact point, coordinating efforts between ECMWF and external service providers, ensuring high-quality, timely outputs. You will work collaboratively with others, leveraging expertise and knowledge across ECMWF, partner institutions and the wider climate community to ensure alignment with best practices and cutting-edge research.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Act as an ECMWF extreme event and attribution expert.
- Support coordination of the externally contracted service on operational extreme event monitoring and attribution.
- Review and support the delivery of e xtreme events monitoring and attribution products.
- Propose new operational climate information products and contribute to their development, evaluation and documentation.
- Engage with ECMWF scientists, partner institutions, and the wider attribution and extreme event community to align with best practices and the latest research.
- Contribute to communication and outreach activities of the C3S attribution work.
- Support the development of diagnostics for other ECMWF products.

**About ECMWF**

The **European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)** is a world leader in Numerical Weather Predictions providing high-quality data for weather forecasts and environmental monitoring. As an intergovernmental organisation we collaborate internationally to serve our members and the wider community with global weather predictions, data and training activities that are critical to contribute to safe and thriving societies.

The success of our activities depends on the funding and partnerships of our 35 Member and Co-operating States who provide the support and direction of our work. Our talented staff together with the international scientific community, and our powerful supercomputing capabilities, are the core of a 24/7 research and operational centre with a focus on medium and long-range predictions. We also hold one of the largest meteorological data archives in the world.

Our mission: Deliver global numerical weather predictions focusing on the medium-range and monitoring of the Earth system to and with our Member States.

Our vision: World-leading monitoring and predictions of the Earth System enabled by cutting-edge physical, computational and data science, resulting from a close collaboration between ECMWF and the members of the European Meteorological Infrastructure, will contribute to a safe and thriving society.

ECMWF has established a strong partnership with the European Union and has been entrusted with the implementation and operation of the Destination Earth initiative and the Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services of the **Copernicus Programme,** as well as being a contributor to the **Copernicus Emergency Management Service**. Other areas of work include High Performance Computing and the development of digital tools that enable ECMWF to extend provision of data and products covering weather, climate, air quality, fire and flood prediction and monitoring.

**About Copernicus**

The **Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)**is part of ECMWF’s Copernicus Programme and is responsible for the operation of the service on behalf of the European Commission. It delivers operational climate services to a large variety of users through its technical infrastructure, the C3S infrastructure (Data Store Services). C3S conducts a large part of its activities via external contractors, whose work is focused on service development and operations. The evolution of the service is also supported by research activities funded by external sources (e.g. Horizon Europe).

**What we are looking for**:

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and a proactive and constructive approach
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Positive attitude and a willingness to embrace change and new challenges
- Excellent coordination, planning and organisational skills
- Dedication and enthusiasm to work efficiently
- Readiness to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to work collaboratively in an international environment and with diverse teams and stakeholders

**Your profile**
- An advanced university degree (EQF Level 7 or above) in a relevant scientific discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in the field of climate monitoring, particularly extreme event attribution. In-depth scientific experience in attributio