Job Description

The Role
As a Physical Climate Risk Consultant, you will work with a variety of clients across all economic sectors that are exposed to climate risk, including public listed and large private companies, as well as governments and development banks. You will identify and quantify physical climate risk, and design risk management and financing strategies. You will be involved in many aspects of such advice, from risk quantification to mitigation and risk financing design, and ensure the analysis undertaken is policy and business relevant.

You will be entering a growing team at our Asia-Pacific Climate Risk Centre, with scope to contribute to its development.
Day to day tasks will include:

• Use of scenario analysis to understand current and future physical risk to assets and business models;
• Data quality assessments of raw data, management of modelling input files, and manipulation of our Climate Quantified datasets for client project delivery;
• Research across hazard, exposure and vulnerability for present day and under future scenarios;
• Produce high-quality materials such as numerical analysis, written documents and presentations to short deadlines.

• An insightful, independent, analytical mind, with a passion for climate change issues.
• Ability to reveal insights from quantitative and qualitative datasets.
• Proficiency with GIS and/or programming languages with experience of analysing weather or climate data.
• Good understanding of the climate risk agenda and ESG-related regulatory landscape.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate methods, results and recommendations from complex analysis to expert and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in data and/or consulting roles.
• Degree in climate change, environmental science/economics or management, engineering or other academic field relevant to climate change.
• Self-starter, ability to juggle multiple complex tasks at the same time.
• Professionalism, enthusiasm for working as part of a team, and ability to interact with a diverse group of people.

Willis Towers Watson