Reporting to the Head of Group on Vulnerability and Adaptation and to the Head of Programme for Natural Systems and Vulnerability, the Project Manager shall be responsible for contributions to the EEA work in the area of data and methodologies on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, including disaster risk prevention. Vulnerability of natural and human systems in Europe is increasing due to a combination of pressures, including further projected climate change and extreme events, natural disasters, intensified land use, industrial development, urban expansion and infrastructure construction. The Project Manager will support EEA activities related to relevant EEA data centres and clearinghouses, regarding data analysis (including GMES), vulnerability and risk mapping, and evaluation of adaptation actions.
The position will entail the following tasks:
- Contribute to managing data and methodologies on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and disaster risk prevention (quality assurance/quality control of projects including relevant contracts, reports, data and web sites);
- Support in following relevant scientific and methodological developments in the areas of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and disaster risk prevention (e.g. European Commission, EU research frameworks, UNFCCC, IPCC, JRC, ESA, GMES);
- Contribute to other relevant EEA projects on climate change and water, climate change and biodiversity, GMES and SEIS, climate change data centre and clearinghouse on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation;
- Contribute to general EEA assessments;
- Support internal and external communication towards EEA clients, provide information and networking in these main work areas and promote EEA activities in this field;
- Support the annual and multi-annual planning exercises in these main work areas;
- Contribute to steering the contributions of the related EEA European Topic Centres (Water, Spatial information and Climate Change) to the above functions.
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