G7 Climate Risk Consultant
Deadline: Midday, Friday 5 June 2026
Salary: £66,361 - £79,697
Location: London or Edinburgh
More information and to apply: Climate Risk Consultant - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK
Come and join the team! We are looking for someone with a strong climate science or climate-related analytics, consultancy or risk background who wants to apply their expertise to make an impact across the public sector. You’ll help government departments and public bodies understand, quantify and manage climate-related risks - supporting better policy, effective decision making and robust reporting.
What you’ll do
Provide high-quality, evidence-based advice on climate-related risk to government departments and public sector bodies.
Lead and support client engagements: agree scope, manage delivery, and ensure outputs are clear, robust and useful.
Support the development and growth of GAD’s climate risk offer: spot opportunities, help design new services, and contribute to proposals and client discussions.
Build trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders, including central government teams with climate policy and reporting responsibilities (e.g. HMT, DESNZ, Defra).
Act as a subject matter expert within GAD, supporting colleagues to integrate climate considerations into wider actuarial work.
Communicate complex technical concepts and uncertainty to non-specialists, including senior decision-makers, in writing and verbally.
Provide constructive challenge to strengthen analytical approaches, assumptions and interpretation.
Contribute to improving GAD’s internal methods, tools and templates, sharing learning across the team and supporting capability-building.
Typical areas of work
Climate risk identification and quantification (physical and transition risks).
Climate scenario development and scenario analysis.
Advice supporting climate-related financial disclosures and reporting.
Using climate and hazard data to assess impacts on public sector assets and long-term public spending risks.
Analysis to support mitigation and adaptation strategies, and to assess climate impacts on policy.