Scientific officer for the coordination of the CLIMERI-France research infrastructure on climate modeling (M/F)

Job Description

Missions

The objective of the position is to contribute to the coordination and scientific activity of the national climate modeling research infrastructure (RI) CLIMERI-France and of the associated European research infrastructure, ENES-RI. He/she will work in close collaboration with the national RI steering committee and with the European RI executive board. The tasks essentially involve coordination and monitoring of activities in support of national and European climate modeling, in an international context of carrying out reference simulations, sharing data from numerical simulations and sharing expertise around of software. The scientific officer will also contribute to the European project “ENES-RISe”, coordinated by CLIMERI-France with contributions from ENES-RI.

Activity

Concerning the coordination of the CLIMERI-France national infrastructure, the main activities will be to:
• Coordinate the implementation of the various RI actions, in conjunction with its steering committee and scientific committee, and participate in the running of these actions;
• Prepare annual activity and financial reports for the Ministry of research and the funding institutions;
• Coordinate the interface with various scientific and technical national and international activities closely linked to the RI, and with computing resources;
• Articulate the activities of the RI with those of the PEPR (priority exploratory research program and equipment) on climate modeling, TRACCS, by joining the team of TRACCS program managers;
• Coordinate and draft scientific and technical summary or foresight documents, in support of decision-making as well as for internal and external communication.

Concerning the European level, the main activities will be to:
• Coordinate interactions with partners and working groups of the ENES-RI infrastructure and support the Executive Board in preparing documents;
• Manage the interface between activities of CLIMERI-France and ENES-RI by following their respective activities;
• Accompany the scientific coordination of the starting European infrastructure project ENES-RISe;
• Interface with international climate modeling projects and more broadly with the modeling activities of the World Climate Research Program relevant to ENES-RI.

Your Profil

Skills

• Holder of a PhD in climate sciences; thesis and post-doctoral experience desired in the field of climate modeling
• Taste and capacity for coordination and synthesis, including scientific and technical documents on climate modeling
• Excellent interpersonal skills to ensure numerous written and oral exchanges at national and European level
• Autonomy, reliability, organizational rigor and responsiveness
• Experience and great ability to work in a team
• English: very good oral and written skills

Your Work Environment

CLIMERI-France is the national research infrastructure for climate modeling, included on the national roadmap since 2016. Its mission is to carry out, by French research teams, international numerical simulations of the World Climate Research Program, making their results available to various user communities and sharing developments and expertise on software tools, in connection with the technological and IT evolution of supercomputers and databases. The results of these experiments constitute one of the scientific bases of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These experiments aim to understand the functioning of the climate system, to evaluate the capabilities of climate models by defining standard experiments, to support studies of mechanisms and processes and to produce projections of future climate change. They serve as a reference for research for the climate science community but also for studies of the impact of climate change in different sectors (agriculture, ecosystems, water, energy, health, etc.). These experiments also serve as a reference for climate services under development. The RI CLIMERI-France includes the development and maintenance of the two national modeling platforms, that of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace in the Paris area and that of Météo-France and CERFACS in Toulouse, the development of pre- and post-processing, carrying out simulations associated with international experiments and making the results available.
The CLIMERI-France RI is closely linked to the European research infrastructure, ENES-RI, an international association in its last phase of construction by the European network ENES, European Network for Earth System modeling. ENES-RI is established as a continuation of the European IS-ENES (Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System modeling) projects supported by Europe from 2009 to 2023 and coordinated by France. The ENES-RI research infrastructure, as a continuation of the IS-ENES projects, supports the European contribution to the sharing of data from international simulations and the sharing of software. It allows coordination and synergy of the different European modeling groups and data centers contribution to the international activity. The activities of ENES-RI in the coming three years will be mainly supported by the Horizon Europe ENES-RISe (ENES-RI Services) project.
The position is attached to the director of CLIMERI-France. The work will be done in interaction with the laboratories and teams concerned, depending on the specific topics.
The position is based at the LSCE (Gif-sur-Yvette, 91)

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

From 3 237,95€ brut

Annual leave and RTT

44 jours

Remote Working practice and compensation

Pratique et indemnisation du TT

Transport

Prise en charge à 75% du coût et forfait mobilité durable jusqu’à 300€

About the offer

About the CNRS

The CNRS is a major player in fundamental research on a global scale. The CNRS is the only French organization active in all scientific fields. Its unique position as a multi-specialist allows it to bring together different disciplines to address the most important challenges of the contemporary world, in connection with the actors of change.

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