Science Leader Climate Health Impacts

2 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Te tūnga | The role
We have a key senior leadership opportunity for a Science Leader, Climate Health Impacts to provide thought leadership and implement a Climate Change Health Impacts and adaptation action plan into ESR's science delivery and to support our organisation in the coming years.
Reporting directly to our Chief Scientist, you will have the opportunity to lead and further develop ESR's climate change health impact strategy and strengthen our climate change related research capability across our existing science delivery. ESR has a pivotal role in supporting Aotearoa/New Zealand in adaptation to the effects of climate change with our focus on people - climate change affects people.
Kia angitu koe | About you

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- An appropriate postgraduate tertiary qualification in Climate Change or related fields
- Significant experience in climate change and human health impacts and adaptation.
- Experience in leading and developing relationships across the science sector, with clients and with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in science communication and able to translate scientific information to a non-technical audience.
- Good understanding of the practice of innovation, preferably at a strategic and systems level
- Effective understanding and ability to identify the implications of policy or legislative change.
- Sound knowledge of the workings of government.
- An ability to travel domestically on an ad-hoc basis.

Ngā painga | The benefits ESR provide an excellent environment for fostering and developing our people in a values-driven, flexible, and ever evolving landscape. We are leaders in our field and our laboratory facilities are second to none. We offer diverse benefits including flexible working options that support everyone's lifestyle in balance with their work commitments. Our people gain value from other benefits such as job-related learning and development opportunities, access to employee health schemes, social events and wellbeing initiatives.


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