Climate Risk and Adaptation Specialist

Role Purpose

Identify material climate-related hazards and assess how they may affect an organization’s sites, operations, assets, supply chains, workforce, and strategic objectives. Recommend practical adaptation measures and areas for further analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the assessment scope, time horizons, organizational boundaries, and relevant climate scenarios.
• Review available climate, hazard, asset, operational, and socioeconomic information.
• Screen exposure and sensitivity to relevant acute and chronic climate hazards—such as heat, drought, flooding, wildfire, storms, or sea-level rise—as applicable.
• Assess potential implications for infrastructure, service delivery, worker health and safety, supply chains, and business continuity.
• Identify existing adaptive capacity, vulnerabilities, and priority information gaps.
• Develop and prioritize adaptation options based on risk reduction, feasibility, co-benefits, and implementation requirements.
• Engage relevant departments, local stakeholders, and technical specialists to validate findings.
• Prepare a screening report that distinguishes preliminary findings from risks requiring detailed engineering or sector-specific analysis.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• A degree in climate science, environmental science, geography, disaster-risk management, engineering, public policy, or a related field.
• At least seven years of relevant experience in climate-risk assessment, climate adaptation, resilience planning, or disaster-risk analysis.
• Experience interpreting climate or hazard data and translating it into organizational or operational risk implications.
• Demonstrated ability to develop practical adaptation recommendations and communicate uncertainty clearly.

Desirable Expertise

• Experience with climate scenarios, geospatial analysis, or climate-risk screening tools.
• Familiarity with climate adaptation planning, disaster-risk reduction, and business-continuity planning.
• Experience in the client’s sector, geography, or infrastructure context.
• Knowledge of relevant national adaptation plans, climate policies, and disclosure requirements.

Typical Outputs

• Climate hazard and exposure screening.
• Organizational vulnerability and adaptive-capacity assessment.
• Priority climate-risk register.
• Adaptation options and prioritization matrix.
• Recommendations for detailed studies, data collection, or resilience investments.

Terms of Appointment

The Specialist will be appointed on a fixed-term contract. Renewal may be considered subject to satisfactory performance.

Compensation

Compensation will be determined based on qualifications, relevant education and experience, skills, seniority, performance, organizational needs, and the candidate’s work location. The applicable compensation scale may vary by location.

Application Process

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as the position may close once a suitable candidate is found. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.

Safeguarding

Epsilon Innovation Group defines safeguarding as “the preventive action taken by Epsilon Innovation Group to protect our people, clients, and the communities we work with from harm.” We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Epsilon Innovation Group Inc. are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will undergo an enhanced selection process, including safeguarding-focused interviews and rigorous due diligence.

About Epsilon Innovation Group Inc.

Epsilon Innovation Group is a consulting and research and development (R&D) based firm specializing in energy, climate change, nature-based solutions, blue economy, economic development, artificial intelligence (AI), technology innovation, policy, and risk analysis.

Epsilon Innovation Group Inc. supports organizations through structured assessment and planning that help them understand climate-related exposure, identify practical adaptation opportunities, and prioritize next steps. Its approach emphasizes evidence, organizational context, stakeholder input, and clear communication of uncertainty. Epsilon’s climate-risk screening work helps distinguish preliminary findings from issues that require more detailed technical analysis.