Internship / Working Student as Climate Risk Specialist (, 6-12 months) in München bei Swiss RE

Join us to bring climate risk knowledge to corporates and prepare businesses for the impacts of climate change!

About the Team

Become a part of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' Climate Risk team and support the development and delivery of Climate Risk Service engagements with corporate customers in understanding and taking control of their climate change related risks.

Our team provides comprehensive climate risk assessments and acts as an expertise hub for natural catastrophes/physical climate change risk and risk management. We are collaborating with Risk Engineering Services (RES), Group Cat Perils, as well as Risk, Data & Services (RDS) within the Swiss Re Group.

You will join our efforts to further develop our geospatial data for physical climate and nature risk insights to quantify the impact of climate change on different hazards such as floods and windstorms or water scarcity/availability.

About the Role

Jointly support the development and improvement of risk insights in the area of:

• Climate hazards and vulnerability – interact with our risk engineers to derive vulnerabilities for weather-related hazards and combine them in risk matrices.
• Climate hazards and its impact on nature, e.g. water scarcity/availability – interact with our nature risk experts to quantify the impact of heat waves and drought on water scarcity.
• Climate Risk Mitigation and Adaptation measures – support the climate risk experts in providing risk mitigation and adaptation recommendations for our clients.

About you

• Currently enrolled at a university in the field of natural sciences or a related field with a focus on climate change and/or natural catastrophes.
• Experience in working with climate models (GCMs and/or RCMs), ensemble analysis, uncertainty quantification, and extreme event analysis is a plus.
• Ability to think 'out of the box' and link physical climate risk applications to other areas.
• Ability to break down sophisticated concepts into easily understandable information.
• Self-motivated to drive and own topics independently through to completion.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills to drive methods, models, data mining, etc.
• Creative solution thinking with a 'can do' mentality.
• Ability to work in a virtual team set-up and motivated to constantly learn and further develop existing skills.
• Excellent communication, technical writing, and presentation skills.
• English language proficiency any other language a plus.

Duration:
6+ months, starting soonest

Working hours:
Working Student, max. 20 hours per week
Intern, 38 hours per week

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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