All applications must be made via JBA 's online recruitment portal at: https://jbariskmanagement.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3775577?cid=3213&t=Catastrophe-Risk-Analyst–Data-Scientist

JBA Risk Management 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 will 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. JBA supports hybrid working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work.

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 are 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.

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:

The full-time role will be in our modern, eco-friendly offices at Broughton Park, near Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3FD. 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.

Further information:

For further information or an informal discussion about this position, please contact Paul Maisey on 01756 799919.

Applications:

All applications must be made via our online recruitment portal at: https://jbariskmanagement.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3775577?cid=3213 &t=Catastrophe-Risk-Analyst–Data-Scientist

Our current vacancies can be viewed at: https://jbagroup.current-vacancies.com/Careers/JBA-Group-Vacancy-Search-Page-3213

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Skipton BD23 3FD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Skipton BD23 3FD