Climate and Environmental Change Communication Officer

**Job Reference**:

- 104_25_ES_KI_CO

**Position**:

- Climate and environmental change communication officer

**Closing Date**:

- Tuesday, 18 February, 2025

**Reference**: 104_25_ES_KI_CO

**Job title**: Climate and environmental change communication officer

**About BSC**
- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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**Context And Mission**
- The Earth System Services Group (ESS) at the Earth Sciences Department conducts interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research to enhance societal value of climate prediction services, atmospheric composition and weather forecasting. The group actively engages with society, decision-makers, and businesses to exchange knowledge and develop user-oriented services. The aim of the ESS is to enhance knowledge exchange and technology transfer and improve resilience, by accelerating adaptation to a rapidly changing environment.

**Key Duties**
- Conduct research on climate-related science communication, future climate change narratives, knowledge integration and other topics related to the ESS research lines
- Plan, coordinate and carry out communication, dissemination and user engagement tasks in various EU-funded projects (e.g. IDAlert, Climateurope2, etc.)
- Work on the documentation and evaluation of undertaken actions and write technical reports and scientific papers on innovative approaches for the communication of climate information and services
- Develop the content and format of user-oriented dissemination materials and/or coordinate with external providers for their preparation (e.g. explainers, booklets, videos, websites, etc.)
- Coordinate with other projects and initiatives to organize technical dissemination and user engagement activities in international conferences and workshops and liaise with academic partners with communications background
- Travel to relevant conferences, workshops, and project meetings to present the outcomes of communication, dissemination and user engagement activities

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Degree in science communication, social sciences or natural sciences
- Education (first degree, master’s, or PhD) in natural sciences-related field
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Previous expertise in the topic of climate change adaptation and/or climate narratives or discourses
- More than two years of experience in managing science communication and dissemination activities in EU-funded projects
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in stakeholder engagement and policy dialogue will be highly valued
- Knowledge on impact assessment methods for communication and dissemination activities and learning assessment techniques will be valued
- Experience in writing research project proposals will be appreciated
- Holding a PhD will be valued
- Competences
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including technical writing and collaboration in scientific papers
- Ability to work collaboratively in a professional environment within an interdisciplinary and international team
- Good public speaking skills
- Proactivity, creativity, and high sense of responsibility

**Conditions**
- The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Starting date: 01/03/2025

**Applications procedure and process**
- A full CV in English including contact details
- A cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the applicant wishes to be co