Senior Scientific Content Editor

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Overview

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) is the world’s leading provider of mathematical models and information related to the financial impact of natural catastrophes.

We are the pioneers in the development and application of combined statistical and numerical modelling methods for the quantification of natural hazard risk, and our models are the most detailed and comprehensive models of natural catastrophes produced anywhere in the world.

Our clients include several hundred insurance and reinsurance companies as well as brokers, banks, asset managers, hedge funds, regional and local governments, and multilateral agencies.

The RMS Models and Data Content team commissions, compiles, edits, delivers, and maintains content to support customers of RMS peril model and data products. These products help businesses and individual consumers to better understand catastrophic events and create a more resilient and sustainable global society.

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The Role*

We are looking for a Senior Scientific Content Editorto help us deliver innovative digital content to support customers of our scientific model and data products. You will collaborate with subject matter experts from a range of scientific disciplines to communicate complex scientific concepts to a mixed audience of specialists and non-specialist customers. You will deliver these insights on a modern cloud-hosted customer portal, helping our subject matter experts to communicate through compelling verbal and visual story telling. You will use analytics tools, such as Mixpanel and Google Analytics, to gain actionable insights across application usage trends to better understand how customers engage with your content and identify areas for improvement. To be successful in this role, you will gain in-depth knowledge of RMS scientific models and data products and understand the needs and purposes of different customer audiences.

The ideal candidate for this position will have a demonstrated ability to deliver effective, user-friendly, and delightful digital content, be hands-on, comfortable working with highly technical, cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment and show bias for action with a proven record of delivering high-quality outcomes of value to customers. If you’re ready to make a difference to RMS and its customers, we would love to talk to you.

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Key Responsibilities*

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Analyze, plan, develop, and deliver scientific documentation describing a wide range of peril models and scientific data for RMS customers

• Determine and deliver content suitable for a range of specialist and non-specialist customers that speaks to their business needs
• Amplify subject matter expert voices with clear, effective content that customers can use with ease and delight

• Ensure clarity, consistency, and quality across all content deliverables and formats
• Collaborate with designers, developers, product managers, and key stakeholders to oversee the user experience from conception until launch
• Incorporate analytics and feedback to develop future scientific content strategy and optimize the customer experience
• Help improve processes, methods, and tools for how content is created, delivered, and maintained
• Work with remote and local teams to meet critical project milestones and deadlines

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Qualifications*

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Excellent Bachelor’s or higher degree in science (particularly Geoscience), UX Writing, Computer Science, Information Design, Journalism, English or related field or equivalent experience

• 5+ years experiences documenting and editing content that explains complex scientific concepts simply and elegantly
• An understanding of specialist terms that enables you to articulate scientific concepts fluently for both specialized and non-specialized audiences

• Experience in authoring topic-based, web-hosted scientific content, especially direct experience with web-hosted publishing using headless CMS e.g. Contentful, is a plus
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or other Web technologies is a plus
• Experience with Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and Agile processes is a plus
• Experience in telling stories through creative, informative, and accurate scientific data visualizations using R, Python, Excel, Qlik, plotly, Tableau, D3.js or other similar technologies or displaying geospatial information using QGIS, ArcGIS, Mapbox, Leaflet or other similar tools is a plus

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About RMS*
There is a 1% chance an earthquake will cause $50 billion of insured loss within the next 12 months and a 5% chance that a hurricane will cause $60 billion of insured losses next year. At RMS, we turn risks into real numbers. How? By building simulation models that allow insurers and investors to understand and manage their global risks-from hurricanes, quakes, and wildfires, to cyberattacks, terror attacks, and pandemics. Why? We want to build a more resilient world, and we are on a mission to help make every risk known.
Insurers, reinsurers, investors, financial institutions, governments, and NGOs trust RMS solutions to better understand and manage catastrophe risks. RMS was founded in 1989 by Stanford scientists who created our first model for California Earthquake. Today, RMS has some 1,300 employees across 13 offices in the US, London, Bermuda, Zurich, India, China, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, and over 1,000 products and models now covering six continents.
RMS helped pioneer the natural catastrophe model market we now lead – and we continue to innovate. In May 2019, we announced RMS Risk Intelligence™ (RI), an open-standard platform for strategic risk management. Through this purpose-built platform, clients can tap into RMS HD models, rich data layers, intuitive applications and APIs that simply integrate into existing enterprise systems to support business decisions across underwriting, risk selection, mitigation, and portfolio management.
How we understand and manage risk affects everyone and our passion is nothing less than creating a more resilient world through a better understanding of catastrophic events. Join our team of leading scientists, developers, industry experts, and world-class professionals. Together, RMSers make a difference on a truly global scale.
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RMS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal law.

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Job Type: Full-time