Climate Change Analysts
Research and analyze policy developments related to climate change. Make climate-related recommendations for actions such as legislation, awareness campaigns, or fundraising approaches.
Also called: Senior Associate, Climate and Energy Program; Senior Climate Advisor; Senior Policy Associate; Staff Climate Scientist
Knowledge:
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- geography
Skills:
- reading work related information
- writing things for co-workers or customers
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by writing
- listen and understand what people say
- use rules to solve problems
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Analytical Thinking
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Initiative
- Persistence
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- Community Climate System Model CCSM
- SAS
Object or component oriented development software
- C++
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
Development environment software
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- Interface definition language IDL
