Senior Regional Climate Change Analyst

As a Senior Regional Climate Change Analyst, you're translating global climate science into local impacts and policy recommendations. You might be analyzing regional temperature and precipitation trends, modeling how sea level rise affects coastal infrastructure, assessing climate risks to agriculture or water supplies, or developing adaptation strategies for local governments. At the senior level, you're leading analytical projects, presenting findings to policymakers, and serving as the climate expertise resource.

The work is part data analysis, part scientific synthesis, part policy communication. You're working with climate models and observational data, conducting vulnerability assessments, reading climate science literature to understand latest findings, and translating complex science into actionable information for non-scientists. You're often bridging the gap between global climate projections and what that means for specific communities, industries, or ecosystems in your region. Collaboration with climate scientists, local planners, and policymakers is constant.

The hardest part is communicating uncertainty while informing urgent decisions. Climate projections involve inherent uncertainty, but communities need to make infrastructure and policy decisions now. You're often delivering difficult news about risks and costs while navigating political sensitivity around climate change. People who thrive here are deeply committed to climate science and adaptation — they find meaning in helping regions prepare for climate impacts and can maintain credibility by being scientifically rigorous while policy-relevant.