Resilient Climate Translation Lead @ ARIA

Salary Levels: £70,000, £90,000, £105,000 (offers will be calibrated on interview assessment and benchmarked experience levels) Location: Kings X, London; Tues - Thurs (3 days) at HQ, Monday + Friday, anywhere Employment Type: Full-time, aligned with ARIA’s active commitment to the Forecasting Tipping Points programme ; we are open to discussing an arrangement of 4 days per week, minimum Contract: Two-years fixed-term (with the possibility for extension) Closing Date: Sunday 29 November 23:59

Interview Process

We will be conducting initial screens for selected candidates in early December, with a view to shortlist for interviews before the new year, and run the full formal selection process in January 2027 About ARIA ARIA empowers scientists to pursue breakthroughs at the edge of the possible. From climate change to AI, society faces enormous challenges and opportunities that can be uniquely addressed through science and technology. ARIA was created to activate the UK’s world-class R&D in new ways, so we can meet these head on. Our success is shaped by one question: how will ARIA transform the lives of the UK’s future generations? Whether that is a life-changing new technology or a burgeoning new industry, it should be obvious that ARIA played a catalytic role. If you want to help make breakthroughs like these possible, come and build ARIA with us.

Learn more here . Role Summary ARIA’s Forecasting Tipping Points programme aims to create a sustained, public-good early warning system for climate tipping points. It is bringing together new approaches to ocean observation, forecasting and decision-focused climate evidence, initially centred on the North Atlantic subpolar gyre, so that governments, communities and other decision-makers can act earlier and with greater confidence. With an ambitious portfolio of R&D Creators established across startups, academia, and non-profit R&D organisations, the programme is moving from advancing the underlying science and technology to demonstrating an integrated capability that people and institutions can trust, use and sustain.

That requires working backwards from consequential decisions, integrating complex systems, building legitimacy with affected communities and creating an institutional and financing model that can preserve essential public goods over the long term.

• As Resilient Climate Translation Lead, your primary responsibility will be to lead this translation effort for Forecasting Tipping Points.
• You will be the Programme Directors’ principal translation delivery partner: co-specifying the early warning system minimum viable product (MVP), leading user and institutional discovery, delivering translation milestones and supporting Creator teams to build compelling propositions and continuity plans.
• Alongside this core remit, you will cultivate partnerships across ARIA’s wider climate programmes, identifying users, strategic partners, co-funders and routes to adoption that can accelerate their impact.
• Build a usable early warning capability Act as ARIA’s point of contact for systems integration, aligning observing, modelling and product teams around clear interfaces, dependencies and assurance.
• Co-specify the early warning system MVP with the Programme Directors and define future portfolio pathways that maximise near-term translation opportunities, with clear outcomes, resources and evidence.
• Lead delivery against translation milestones, including relationships with programme Fellows and system partners.
• Use evidence to recommend when ARIA should progress, reshape, redirect or stop work to keep the portfolio moving.
• Form an enduring model Alongside the Programme Directors and Science and Technology Lead, define the observations, calibrated open data, provenance, methods, assessment, assurance and communication that must endure beyond the programme’s timeframe and protect the public good mission.
• Test options for governance, assurance, operations and finance against scientific independence, international legitimacy, public access, operational resilience and Greenlandic data sovereignty.
• Generate and convert interest from governments, philanthropic co-funders, multilateral bodies, and scientific and operational institutions into clear roles, committed resources and sustained support.
• Create translation routes across ARIA’s climate programmes Work backwards from real decisions with users, buyers, operators and affected communities, translating their needs into product and technical requirements, testing those requirements through pilots, scenarios and workflow tests, and using the evidence to steer observing, modelling and product choices.
• Secure partnerships for validation, operating environments, co-development, procurement or co-funding, that open near-term routes to use across ARIA’s other climate programmes, including Exploring Climate Cooling.
• Sharpen value propositions, routes to adoption and continuity plans, then connect Creator teams with the partners, capabilities and follow-on resources they need to give them a credible next step.