Climate Impact Scientist

**Climate Impact Scientist**:
SX3 Scientist 3

TerM/Full-time

Health, Seniors and Long Term Care

Data Science Program, Corporate Strategy and Administration

Winnipeg MB

Advertisement Number: 44169

Salary(s): SX3 $3,787.40 - $5,183.03 bi-weekly

Closing Date: July 1, 2025

The Manitoba government recognizes the importance of building an exemplary public service reflective of the citizens it serves, where diverse abilities, backgrounds, cultures, identities, languages and perspectives drives a high standard of service and innovation. The Manitoba government supports equitable employment practices and promotes representation of designated groups (women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities).

Employment Equity is a factor in selection for this competition. Consideration will be given to women, Indigenous people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities.

An eligibility list may be created for similar positions on a temporary and/or regular basis and will remain in effect for 12 months.

Written communication skills will be assessed with all documents submitted. Please identify which portions of documents are written by you if there are multiple authors.

There will be an information session about the Climate Impact Scientist position held on June 10, 2025 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm. Please click here to Join the meeting.

Conditions of Employment:

- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
- Willing and able to work overtime as required
- Ability to provide and maintain a satisfactory Criminal Record Check

Qualifications:
**Essential**:

- Meaningful experience with climate modelling and the relevant science, including downscaling.
- Ability to plan, organize and lead research and development for climate impact modelling initiatives, including strong time management and organizational skills
- Superior written communication skills
- Superior verbal communication skills including ability to present complex technical information to executive audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate effectively
- Strong computational skills sufficient for complex climate modelling which may include the following:

- Algorithms, memory-management, high-performance computing, and

parallel processing
- Statistical and mathematical methods relevant to the needs of climate scenario

modelling
- Industry-standard open-source programming languages (E.g., R, Python, SQL)
- Capacity to work with images, sensor readings, remote sensing data and other

relevant data types for climate modelling
- Statistical and scientific software development, documentation, and model deployment

best practices

**Desired**:
**Duties**:
As a senior staff member in this specialized team, the position will be responsible for establishing the foundations of a climate risk quantification initiative in the Government of Manitoba. This line of work that will have major implications for policy and operations across the public sector in our province, and the position will ensure the foundational science of this initiative is implemented to a high technical standard.
- Advertisement # 44169
- Talent Acquisition - Executive Recruitment
- Human Resource Services
- 608-330 Portage Avenue
- Winnipeg, MB, R3C 0C4
- Phone: 204-945-6892
- Fax: 204-945-0601

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