User Engagement and Partnership Associate

**Your role**:
ECMWF is seeking to fill a new position as **User Engagement and Partnership Associate (A1)** supporting the implementation of the National Collaboration Programmes (NCP) under Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) and Climate Change Service (C3S).

You will work as part of the User Outreach and Engagement Section, reporting to the Team Lead on the Copernicus National Uptake and Thematic Collaborations. In this role you will contribute to the implementation of the NCPs and participate in dialogues with member state representatives and the technical management of actions. You will manage a set of dedicated, co-designed contracts and grants and also s upport other members of the team in support of NCP implementation actions.

Central to these engagements is leveraging and using concrete CAMS and C3S products and services at national levels. You will play a key part in capturing the diversity in technical requirements, differences in data value chains and working practices and communicating feedback to technical and scientific experts at ECMWF.

**About ECMWF**:
ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. It is an intergovernmental organisation created in 1975 by a group of European nations and is today supported by 35 Member and Co-operating States, mostly in Europe. The Centre’s mission is to serve and support its Member and Co-operating States and the wider community by developing and providing world-leading global numerical weather prediction. ECMWF functions as a 24/7 research and operational centre with a focus on medium and long-range predictions and holds one of the largest meteorological archives in the world. The success of its activities relies primarily on the talent of its scientists, strong partnerships with its Member and Co-operating States and the international community, some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and the use of innovative technologies such as machine learning across its operations.

ECMWF is a multi-site organisation, with a main office in Reading, UK, a data centre/supercomputer in Bologna, Italy, and a large presence in Bonn, Germany. ECMWF has also developed 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. 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.

**Copernicus**:
In 2014 ECMWF became an entrusted entity to operate the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on behalf of the European Commission. Upon the closure of the first phase mid-2021, ECMWF is now working on the next phase of the Copernicus Programme until 2027.

The NCP is a dedicated scheme to co-design support actions for EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom and the Ukraine to stimulate and facilitate use of CAMS and C3S data and products at country level, extracting the maximum benefit to meet the needs at the country level as well as transboundary level. With this initiative ECMWF supports national institutions to improve their uptake and use of CAMS and C3S products in support of their environmental, climate resilience and green transition objectives.

The programme is implemented through contracts and grants with the public authorities, bilateral discussions with individual national authorities, joint dialogues via the User Fora and assessments on transboundary issues. Training activities complement specific capacity building needs. The NCP facilitates dialogues between the countries as well as at European levels on topics related to the implementation of European environmental policies.

**User Outreach and Engagement at ECMWF**:
**Your responsibilities**:

- Support other members of the team with technical assessments of deliverables from the NCP contracts/grants;
- Manage a portfolio of NCP contracts/grants to ensure the delivery of the contractually agreed outputs, providing guidance and involving scientific experts at ECMWF;
- Promote and facilitate dialogues between member states about synergies and increased engagements on technical topics;
- Steer the collection and analysis of user feedback on CAMS and C3S products and services resulting from the NCPs;
- Contribute to ECMWF user engagement activities such as workshops, general assemblies and other fora.

You will work closely with colleagues across the Forecasts and Services Department and the Research Department, the Communication Section, and the User Services Section.

Occasional travel to the other ECMWF offices, Member States, Co-operating States, and to the EU member states participating in the Copernicus programme may be required.

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