Flood and water ressources modeller - Paris

💡 Company in transition
Long-term contract
Localisation Paris
Posted on 05-23-2023

AXA Climate

La Raison d'être d'AXA Climate est d'aider la planète Terre à devenir une véritable partie prenante de toutes les entreprises. Notre Mission est l'adaptation climatique et environnementale.

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This company has begun its transition to improve its social and environmental impact. Only jobs that contribute directly to this transition are published here, such as CSR manager or carbon footprint project manager.

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La Raison d’être d’AXA Climate est de rendre universelle l’entreprise régénérative.

Réduire nos impacts négatifs sur la planète ne suffit pas. Notre enjeu collectif : transformer nos entreprises extractives en entreprises régénératives. Pour cela, nous transformons nos business models, nos organisations, nos missions collectives. Ce mouvement de transformation nous anime.
Au service de cette mission, 4 différents métiers : 

  • La formation - via des contenus digitaux, scientifiques pour mettre en mouvement tous les collaborateurs, leur donner les compétences et les outils. 
  • Le conseil - pour impacter en local, via des actions d’adaptation concrètes.
  • L’assurance et le financement - pour sécuriser celles et ceux qui s’adaptent, et impactent. 

THE TEAM

Science is at the heart of our Business Value Proposal.

You will join a team of experts from many geoscience fields : hydrologists, climatologists, geologists, agronomists, ecologists and meteorologists worling togehter to model risks stemming from various types of hazards (extreme and chronic) on built and natural environments, taking into account the impact of climate change.

We harness our inhouse scientific expertise and bridge the gap between research and the industry to help our four lines of business by:

  1. Sharing and maintaining state of the art knowledge on geophysical and biodiversity risks and and opportunities within the team and with customers.

  2. Modeling the probability of occurrence of extreme climate hazards and providing analysis for our parametric insurance and consulting teams.

  3. Quantify assets and ecosystems vulnerabilities relying on internal and external sources of information.

  4. Developping partnerships with research institutes via joint R&D projects

  5. Participating in science outreach activities.

YOUR MISSIONS

  • Develop water hazard models with a focus on flooding but also water scarcity and drought in both urban and rural areas. It includes rainfall-runoff and water propagation modelling and the generation of inland flood hazard analysis at local and regional scale.

  • Actively participate in parametric insurance activities throught flood risk modeling and data analysis.

  • Support consulting teams deliveries by developing climate risk indicators and assessing the feasibility of different water risk mitigation strategies by means of quantitative methods such as Cost Benefit Analysis.

  • Develop and review training materials.

  • Boost and communicate our R&D activities by building partherships with research institutes, participating in conferences, publishing in scientific journals and working with our communication team.

Profile
  • PhD or similar experience in the field of hydrology and/or hydraulics

  • 3+ years experience in flood risk modeling

  • Programming for risk modeling and data analysis

  • Experience in building a network of research institutes and experts

  • Project delivery: able to deliver projects in time, with the right level of quality

  • Customer focus

  • Team work

  • Autonomy