Head of Climate and Data Analytics in Germany

EUMETSAT is an intergovernmental organisation based in Darmstadt, Germany. Our vision is to be the leading user-driven operational agency in Europe and a trusted global partner for weather and Earth system monitoring from space. All data provided by our state-of-the-art satellites systems are making a tangible difference in people's lives and contribute to the thriving European economy.

You are also involved in the European coordination of climate data with national climate information providers, ECMWF, the European Commission and ESA, participates in the coordination of international climate-related activities within the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) and the Committee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and supports coordination between space agencies and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Joining EUMETSAT in this role offers a unique opportunity to take a leadership role in a highly motivating environment.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Lead and manage the USC climate and data analytics team;
- Advise the EUMETSAT Management Board on all aspects of EUMETSAT’s support to Climate Services and related activities;
- Coordinate EUMETSAT’s climate monitoring activities within the organisation inclusive of guidance to user engagement, planning and delivery of climate data, and reporting to delegate bodies;
- Coordinate EUMETSAT’s contributions on climate to the relevant Copernicus Services including coordination and update of a respective multi-annual production plan;
- Lead the definition of evolving user requirements for EUMETSAT’s reprocessing infrastructure, validate delivered functions, and operate the infrastructure as a Multi-Mission Element;
- Lead the definition of user requirements for EUMETSAT’s evolving Hosted Processing Services and associated projects such as the European Weather Cloud, validate delivered functions, contribute to the operations of the Service and reporting to delegate bodies;
- Lead the establishment and maintenance of cooperation with external partners and represent EUMETSAT at international fora and liaise with the scientific and operational community as required to support climate monitoring and related machine learning activities;
- Routinely assess opportunities for engaging in third-party funded R&D activities relevant to the function (e.g. Horizon Europe), and lead the scientific engagement in selected bids, with support of administrative units.

**What we offer**
- Excellent salary, of up to Euro 10,000 **NET (after income tax)** based on skills and experience
- Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave
- Full medical coverage for employee and family
- Attractive pension
- 30 days of annual leave + 14.5 days public holidays
- Training and development support
- Relocation allowance and support (if applicable)

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications**:

- Advanced university degree in meteorology, physics or related scientific discipline. A PhD would be a strong advantage.

**Skills and Experience**:

- Demonstrable experience with increasing responsibility in leading science or operation teams, in climate research or climate services using observations and model outputs (e.g. reanalysis), and (in the analysis of satellite climate data inclusive of quality analysis);
- Sound background in remote sensing physics, instrument calibration, quantitative uncertainty analysis, or machine learning methods;
- Strong experience in working in international projects, project management and coordination; experience in international coordination mechanisms is considered an advantage;
- Good understanding of working in operational environments; understanding of infrastructure requirements for large scale processing of satellite data is considered an advantage;
- Strong interpersonal and team working skills as well as strength in analysis, synthesis and presentation.

**Languages**:
**APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. WE WILL BE UNABLE TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN OTHER LANGUAGES.**

EUMETSAT is an international organisation employing staff from across all 30 member states and this role is being advertised on multiple international job boards, but please note that this role would be based in Darmstadt, Germany and would require international applicants to relocate if successful.

**More about us**

**EUMETSAT’s role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.**

**EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.**

**As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT can recruit nationals only from the 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,