Climate Change Adaptation Specialist

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Job Description

The Climate Change Adaptation Specialist will be responsible for updating and implementing the climate change work of the FCDO-funded Water Resource Accountability in Pakistan (WRAP) Programme: Component 1 (Climate Resilient Solutions for Improving Water Governance / CRS-IWaG). The specialist will carry out climate modeling, including producing high-resolution climate datasets using dynamical downscaling and statistical bias correction to understand the impacts of climate change in the study areas of the FCDO project. They incumbent will ensure that proposed technical water management interventions are climate resilient and support the climate adaptation framework. Additionally, the specialist will provide extensive technical support to the IWMI’s WRAP team on developing climate-resilient solutions to address climate shocks, such as floods and droughts.
Duties & Responsibilities:

Address the spatial scale gap between global climate models and necessary fine-scale regional models.
Utilize existing data, models, and software to extend Deep Learning into the climate Downscaling of large ensembles, thereby better project changes in extreme weather.
Downscale global circulation models and reduce uncertainties in circulation patterns.
Develop and interpret inter-annual to decadal forecasts and apply statistical pre-processing.
Produce high-resolution climate datasets using dynamical downscaling and statistical bias correction.
Develop, test, and simulate climate data downscaling prediction and evaluation.
Study the effects of present and future climate on climate-smart water management interventions in the FCDO project sites.
Provide dynamical downscaling of climate change and weather extremes.
Offer specialist advice on physical climate risk management for WRAP technical interventions throughout the project cycle.
Provide recommendations and develop internal guidance on climate change adaptation for the project.
Develop capacity-building training modules and conduct awareness-raising activities on climate change for the FCDO project.
Provide extensive technical support to IWMI’s WRAP team in developing climate-resilient solutions to address climate shocks, such as floods and droughts.

Requirements:
Educational Qualifications & Experience:
Essential:

PhD in climate sciences, environmental sciences, or earth sciences.
At least 5 years of relevant work experience with international organizations in climate risk, climate adaptation, vulnerability reduction, and capacity development.
Proven experience and knowledge of the framework and modeling on Climate Change.
Experience with regional downscaling or regional climate modeling

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Essential:

Strong background in quantitative and analytical skills.
Ability to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of experts in machine learning, separation of climate signals and noise, downscaling methods for climate data, pattern recognition, and spatio-temporal models.
Familiarity with spatial analysis tools (particularly ArcGIS), data analysis tools (such as Python), and/or life-cycle analysis (LCA) for quality-controlled data analysis and database submission.
Excellent report writing skills.
Ability to deliver project outputs on time with guidance from the supervisor/project leader.
Knowledge of diversity, inclusion, discrimination, and gender issues in Pakistan.
Adherence to organizational values, ethics, and work with professional integrity.
Well-developed personal organization and priority-setting skills.
Highly developed skills in project/service delivery.
Demonstrable high level of autonomy, initiative, expert judgment, adaptability, and flexibility.
Demonstrable skills in leading and managing people.
Excellent oral and written language skills in English & Urdu, including effective listening and strong verbal and written communication abilities.

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