Catastrophe Risk Analyst, Data Scientist
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Role
We are excited to offer the opportunity to join JBA’s team of consultants, working in a busy, friendly and supportive team. The ideal candidate will have strong numerical and analytical skills, enjoy communicating complex scientific information to non-specialists, and be comfortable managing priorities.
You’ll be joining an established environmental and engineering consultancy who put sustainability and resilience to climate change at the heart of our company strategy. With offices in nine countries around the world and across the UK and Ireland, we like to think we make a difference. We are independent and employee-owned allowing us the freedom to focus on innovation and our commitment to exceptional client service. Our workforce is central to our success, and we invest heavily in supporting staff development. We are great people to work for. Visit https://www.jbarisk.com/ to find out more about what we do.
Your role
The team delivers risk insight to a wide range of clients through multiple ongoing projects. The types of projects that you may be involved with include:
- analysing flood risk for an insurance client’s portfolio of properties;
- applying a range of tools to analyse risk to individual, high value assets;
- using catastrophe models to assess the effects of flooding on people, infrastructure and the economy in vulnerable countries, supporting risk adaptation and resilience initiatives through disaster risk financing;
- helping clients to understand how their exposure to risk may change in a future climate;
- bringing together JBA’s expertise and information to deliver bespoke solutions for clients in a wide range of sectors.
You will be involved in running JBA’s catastrophe models and tools, using statistics and GIS to analyse results, and creating clear and effective reports and presentations for different audiences. Our work requires a knowledge of hydrology, hydraulic modelling, climate change and risk. You will help clients to interpret results for their decision making.
Day to day, you are likely to be involved in more than one project, developing innovative solutions to address clients’ challenges and delivering to client deadlines. You will work with other teams to deliver projects that make use of JBA’s market-leading technology. You will be encouraged to contribute to deciding how the team’s work develops in the future and how it fits with company objectives.
The team member we’re looking for
We are looking for candidates with qualifications in Hydrology, GIS, Mathematics, Natural Hazards, Meteorology, Earth Sciences, or similar. We will consider applications from recent graduates and individuals in their early career who are collaborative, keen to innovate and committed to delivering value to clients.
To fit the nature of work within the team, the role would be ideal for someone who likes a challenge, picks up new skills quickly and thinks innovatively. Successful candidates will be enthusiastic, organised, work well with colleagues and be comfortable working on their own initiative.
Qualifications
An undergraduate degree in a related discipline, or equivalent experience. This could include qualifications in Hydrology, GIS, Mathematics, Natural Hazards, Meteorology, Earth Sciences, or similar.
Essential attributes for the role
- Interest in natural hazards and catastrophe modelling
- A professional manner with strong interpersonal skills, comfortable to interact with more experienced colleagues and clients
- Experience of teamwork/collaborative environments both in person and via collaboration technologies
- Demonstrable ability to understand and communicate technical concepts verbally and in writing
- Experience with GIS platforms (e.g. QGIS)
- Experienced user of Microsoft Excel (e.g. pivot tables, vlookups)
- Be able to organise own time
- Be able to distinguish the important elements of your work and focus on these as a priority
- Experience of Linux command line with scripting
- Competent use of core MS Office 365 suite of tools (e.g. Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams)
Desirable attributes for the role
- A postgraduate degree in a related discipline
- Prior experience of modelling natural hazards
- Relevant industry experience
- Coding experience, e.g. Python, R, SQL
Location and contact
JBA supports hybrid working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work.
The full-time role will be located in our modern, eco-friendly offices at Broughton Park, near Skipton, North Yorkshire. Our team has adopted a hybrid working approach with some requirement to work both from home and in the office. We supply basic equipment to support this. You will need to be in the Skipton office a minimum of 2 days a week.
This unique work setting sits on the boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and offers easy access to stunning countryside. Skipton is a bustling market town with great schools, services and leisure facilities, and is within easy reach of Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and the Lake District. Find out more at https://www.welcometoskipton.com
For further information or an informal discussion about this position, please contact Paul Maisey on paul.maisey@jbarisk.com
The JBA Family
The JBA Group is a family of environmental, engineering and risk management companies committed to exceptional service and helping clients and communities build resilience to flood and environmental risk in a changing climate. We're leading the way to integrate science and technology to provide our clients with a forward-thinking view of climate resilience.
We can only do this through our fantastic team, and we believe in providing a competitive salary, flexible working conditions and the best benefits package we can. We’re an employee-owned organisation and have no external shareholders to pay, meaning all our staff benefit directly from our profits through our annual Employee-Owned Benefit scheme.
Alongside this, we’re focused on helping our staff develop their skills and offer a generous training budget to every member of staff, as well as a professional development programme and support in the attainment of professional qualifications including chartered membership.
We invest in our staff’s mental health and wellbeing, encouraging our staff to maintain a healthy work-life balance and organising social activities from bake sales and book clubs to badminton. We also invest in the wider community by funding our own charitable foundation, the JBA Trust, supporting sustainability initiatives such as tree planting, and facilitating outreach visits by our team of STEM ambassadors.
JBA is committed to creating and sustaining a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfil their potential and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community. All roles will be considered for part-time or flexible working, and we encourage applications from candidates who may be returning to work after a career break for any reason, or who are looking to change industry.
No unsolicited CVs from Agencies. All Agencies should note that if JBA receives an application via other means - even if it comes after your first contact with us - there will be no contractual entitlement to an introduction fee or other fees. In sending us any applications you are deemed to have agreed to these terms.
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