Deputy Director of The Earth Sciences Department

**Context And Mission
The BSC Earth Sciences Department (BSC-ES) is a pioneering research entity dedicated to advancing environmental modelling, forecasting, and analysis. This is a very dynamic and internationally-recognised department with more than 190 members. The BSC-ES research focuses on weather, climate and air quality modelling and forecasting based on the high-performance computing, big data analysis, machine learning, and transdisciplinary work that brings together natural and social sciences and humanities.

BSC-ES is looking for a deputy director to work with the current director, the ICREA professor Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, to provide leadership and management to the department, including analysis and implementation of priorities, partnerships, and infrastructure needs.

**Key Duties
Strategic planning and alignment:

- Cooperate with the BSC-ES director and group leaders to provide leadership and management, including assessment and implementation of priorities, partnerships, and infrastructure needs.
- Participate in strategic planning and analysis to support the department projection in time.
- Perform risk assessment and crisis management.
- Work with funding institutions and industrial partners in identifying their research priorities and how the BSC-ES expertise and interest can be tapped. Organise departmental activities and information systems such as the department wiki.

Stakeholder management:

- Cultivate and maintain relationships with industry partners, funding agencies, the media and public administrations.
- Engage with the BSC trustees (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Generalitat, Spanish government) to define the department strategy.
- Act as a liaison with other BSC departments to foster collaboration (e.g., financial and technical).
- Manage and promote initiatives and synergies of the BSC-ES both internally and externally. Act as an institutional scientific representative for the BSC-ES in engagements with the members of the Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Board of BSC.

Performance monitoring and reporting:

- Monitor departmental risks and achievements of KPIs.
- Identify and implement innovative project management protocols and practices. Support strategic planning, financial projections, and budget development.

**Requirements
Education

PhD in climate, ocean, atmospheric sciences, physics, engineering, or a related discipline.

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in the scientific area as a principal investigator or group/team leader.
- Strong experience in managing resources and securing grants at both national and international levels. Demonstrable experience in managing multidisciplinary research teams.

Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Familiarity with environmental modelling and the associated technical matters.
- Solid record of relevant publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Credible scientific leadership with the ability to build excellent stakeholder relationships and enabling a team of world-class experts to perform to the best of their abilities.
- Excellent record in managing resources and obtaining grants both at national and international levels. Fluency in English. Knowledge of Spanish and Catalan language will be valued.

Competences
- Proven initiative and ability of guiding a large, multicultural research department.
- Ability to take initiative, prioritise and work under set deadlines and pressure.
- Strong organisational and budgetary management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills.
- Capacity to cooperate and build strong relations with a diverse stakeholder/staff base.

**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: August