Risk Modeller
At Earth Sciences New Zealand, we're bringing together exceptional science, technology and people to address the environmental, climate and natural hazard challenges facing Aotearoa New Zealand. As a collaborative and purpose-driven organisation, we're committed to delivering science that creates meaningful impact for communities, industry and the environment, while partnering with Māori, supporting Pacific resilience, and shaping a more sustainable future for generations to come.
What You’ll Do
- Develop risk modelling frameworks, data integration workflows, and machine learning pipelines that that turn complex hazard and climate data into actionable insights.
- Collaborate with risk scientists, hazard and climate scientists, stakeholders and partners to co-create risk solutions that shape resilience planning across Aotearoa.
- Enhance the risk modelling, and data science and management capabilities of others, through mentoring and workshops.
What you’ll bring:
- A relevant graduate/undergraduate qualification and up to 5 years of relevant and applied experience in risk modelling, data science or natural hazards.
- Knowledge of risk modelling including an ability to apply mathematical and statistical concepts into risk analyses.
- Data science expertise, including working with big data, statistical analysis, machine learning, data visualisation and cloud computing, and their application to risk modelling.
- Ability to understand natural hazard sciences, including earthquakes, volcano, tsunami, landslide, flooding and climate scenarios.
- Demonstrated proficiency and expertise in Python programming and command line environments, and other programming languages.
- Experience in processing, analysing and visualising geospatial data utilising GIS tools (e.g. QGIS and ArcGIS) and adept in managing databases, applying these in risk modelling.
We know that talented people—especially those from under‑represented or neurodiverse communities—sometimes hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement in a job description. If this role aligns with your strengths, lived experience, or interests, we’d love to hear from you and we’re committed to supporting your growth.
What we offer
- Varied, challenging and important work with talented colleagues in an organisation devoted to earth science.
- A high performing organisation with a focus on employee development and wellbeing.
- Generous leave entitlements and employee benefits
- Flexible working options (e.g, part-time, flexible start and finish times). We are happy to discuss potential flexible options for this position at the interview stage.
- A permanent, full time (38 hours per week) position.
- This role is located at one of our Avalon (Lower Hutt), Christchurch or Auckland sites.
- The salary range for this position is between $89,000 to $110,000, depending on the successful candidate’s experience.
View the full position description for this role here - https://www.gns.cri.nz/careers/. Please contact [email protected] with any questions or queries.
Apply now
If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications close on Wednesday, 26 August 2026
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