Advanced Earth Fellow: Urban Flooding

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Advanced Earth Fellow: Urban Flooding**
**UoE Grade 7 £36,333 - £43,155, Per Annum, Pro Rata**

**Edinburgh Earth Initiative, Edinburgh Global**

**Fixed-term contract, 9 hours per week, 3 months**

**1 post**

As part of the refresh of the University of Edinburgh’s climate strategy, join the prestigious Edinburgh Earth Initiative’s Earth Fellows programme, to play an important role in exploring cost effective technologies and solutions to urban flooding across our campuses.

**The Opportunity**:
As an Advanced Earth Fellow, you will be joining a diverse, fun and dynamic team of researchers, students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme, you will have access to exciting networking and personal development opportunities as well as the chance to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.

Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiative’s work on climate change research-led impact, innovation, engagement, and teaching.

**Outcomes of the project**:
Click to view a copy of the full job description **here **and more detailed **project brief **(opens new browser tab).
- Understand the various options available to building owners for safely reducing the flow of rainwater from their site based on quantitative analysis of water flows off roofs/surfaces.
- Represent any knock-on impacts of making these changes, such as any risk to building fabric, or legislative or technical requirements arising from storing rainwater.
- Understand the likely cost (including operation and maintenance) of different flood alleviation technologies.
- Make recommendations to the University of Edinburgh on technologies which deliver the greatest flood alleviation impact for a reasonable financial cost (capital; operations and maintenance).
- The Earth Fellows programme is for current University of Edinburgh students. Advanced Earth Fellows must be current PhD students at the University of Edinburgh. _

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work alongside the Edinburgh Earth Initiative team and Earth Fellows community which includes undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students as well as the wider student community, academics, professional services, and global partners working on climate and environmental change. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

**Interviews will be held in mid-April (in Edinburgh or online).**

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages **(opens new browser tab).



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