Deputy Director of The Earth Sciences Department - Barcelona, España - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

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Barcelona, España

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Isabel García

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Job Reference:

1_24_ES_GES_R/RE4
Position:
Deputy director of the Earth Sciences Department (R4/RE4)
Closing Date:
Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
Reference: 1_24_ES_GES_R/RE4
Job title: Deputy director of the Earth Sciences Department (R4/RE4)
About BSC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads largescale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 900 staff from 55 countries.
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Context And Mission
The BSC Earth Sciences Department (BSC-ES) is a pioneering research entity dedicated to advancing environmental modelling, forecasting, and analysis. This is a very dynamic and internationallyrecognised department with more than 190 members. The BSC-ES research focuses on weather, climate and air quality modelling and forecasting based on the highperformance computing, big data analysis, machine learning, and transdisciplinary work that brings together natural and social sciences and humanities.
BSC-ES is looking for a deputy director to work with the current director, the ICREA professor Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, to provide leadership and management to the department, including analysis and implementation of priorities, partnerships, and infrastructure needs.
Key Duties
Strategic planning and alignment:
Cooperate with the BSC-ES director and group leaders to provide leadership and management, including assessment and implementation of priorities, partnerships, and infrastructure needs.
Participate in strategic planning and analysis to support the department projection in time.
Perform risk assessment and crisis management.
Work with funding institutions and industrial partners in identifying their research priorities and how the BSC-ES expertise and interest can be tapped.
Organise departmental activities and information systems such as the department wiki.
Stakeholder management:
Cultivate and maintain relationships with industry partners, funding agencies, the media and public administrations.
Engage with the BSC trustees (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Generalitat, Spanish government) to define the department strategy.
Act as a liaison with other BSC departments to foster collaboration (e.g., financial and technical).
Manage and promote initiatives and synergies of the BSC-ES both internally and externally.
Act as an institutional scientific representative for the BSC-ES in engagements with the members of the Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Board of BSC.
Performance monitoring and reporting:
Monitor departmental risks and achievements of KPIs.
Identify and implement innovative project management protocols and practices.
Support strategic planning, financial projections, and budget development.

Requirements:

Education
PhD in climate, ocean, atmospheric sciences, physics, engineering, or a related discipline.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
A minimum of 5 years of experience in the scientific area as a principal investigator or group/team leader.
Strong experience in managing resources and securing grants at both national and international levels.
Demonstrable experience in managing multidisciplinary research teams.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Familiarity with environmental modelling and the associated technical matters.
Solid record of relevant publications in peerreviewed journals.
Credible scientific leadership with the ability to build excellent stakeholder relationships and enabling a team of worldclass experts to perform to the best of their abilities.
Excellent record in managing resources and obtaining grants both at national and international levels.
Fluency in English. Knowledge of Spanish and Catalan language will be valued.
Competences
Proven initiative and ability of guiding a large, multicultural research department.
Ability to take initiative, prioritise and work under set deadlines and pressure.
Strong organisational and budgetary management skills.
Excellent interpersonal and decisionmaking skills.
Capacity to cooperate and build strong relations with a diverse stakeholder/staff base.