Ice Sheet Modeller

Duration: Fixed Term Appointment - until March 2027

Benefits: We offer generous benefits

Location: BAS Cambridge

Job Profile: Job Profile document

Description 

£48,802 - £53,682– the band minimum is the normal starting pay for those new to a role.   In exceptional circumstances, when relevant skills and experience can be identified, a higher starting salary may be considered.

Interview date – To be confirmed

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for an exceptional Ice Sheet Modeller to join the Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate team. BAS delivers and enables world-leading interdisciplinary research in the Polar Regions. We employ experts from many different professions to carry out our Science as well as keep the lights on, feed the research and support teams and keep everyone safe!

Working at BAS is rewarding.  Our skilled science, operational and support staff based in Cambridge, Antarctica and the Arctic work together to deliver research that uses the Polar Regions to advance our understanding of Earth as a sustainable planet. Through our extensive logistic capability, BAS facilitates access for the British and international science community to the UK polar research operation. Numerous national and international collaborations, combined with an excellent infrastructure, help sustain a world leading position for the UK in Antarctic affairs.  British Antarctic Survey is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation www.ukri.org

As a valued member of our team, you’ll be eligible for the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2.5 privilege days
• Excellent civil service pension (with 26% or more employer contribution, depending on your band)
• 24 hours/365 days access to employee assistance programme (EAP – including support with physical, mental, social, health and financial issues)
• Flexible and family friendly working opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure, and lifestyle categories and much more.

You’ll be joining our interdisciplinary Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate team, which includes ice sheet modellers, geophysicists, ice core scientists and Earth system modellers working to improve our understanding of the Earth’s cryosphere and its response to climate change. Within this, you’ll be part of the Ice Sheet Modelling group, working collaboratively with scientists across BAS and beyond to understand and model changes in the ice sheets and glaciers. You’ll help us to deliver exciting and impactful scientific research on the big questions facing society over the coming decades and centuries: how much and how fast will the Antarctic Ice Sheet contribute to global sea level rise?

Current projects the team are working on include (among others):

• International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC): This large joint UK-US research programme aims to improve the understanding of the processes affecting ice sheet stability to predict the future impact of sea-level rise from Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
• RIFT-TIP: This NERC-funded project (PI Oliver Marsh, BAS) is investigating iceberg calving and fracture growth in ice shelves using observations and modelling.
• PROTECT: A large EU-funded project to assess and project changes in the land-based cryosphere with quantified uncertainties.
• ISOTIPIC: This aim of this new NERC project (PI Tony Payne, Liverpool) is the understand the processes controlling key tipping points associated with the oceans and ice sheets and assess their potential impacts on society and the global Earth System.

Within the role, there will be opportunities to develop your own scientific portfolio in collaboration with scientists across BAS and beyond. We offer significant support and guidance in applying for funding, including a tailored mentorship scheme for fellowship applications. Training is available on in-house models and techniques where required, and more broadly on skills for career development such as grant writing and scientific leadership.

You’ll be joining a world-leading interdisciplinary research organisation, that is committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career, and giving you the support, you need to thrive at BAS.

If we’ve just described you, we’d love to hear from you. Informal enquiries about this post are very welcome and should be addressed to Rosie Williams (chll1@bas.ac.uk). Apply now via the 'Apply' button above.

What experiences can we offer you?

At BAS we believe everyone plays a vital role, is unique and valued, therefore, we embrace diversity as well as equality of opportunity and are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming working environment where everyone’s unique perspectives are valued.

Different perspectives and collaborative working help us achieve our best work and come together to form a high performing team which makes positive changes in the business. That’s the power of every individual.  Our cultural values are built on mutual respect, inclusion, commitment, and excellence.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work with world class and amazing people in one of the most unique places in the world, then British Antarctic Survey could be for you.