Climate Metadata Analyst Industrial Placement

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2027. You will develop your skills and knowledge and gain the most value possible from your experience with us.

You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities are on offer after you graduate.

The Role

We’re looking for a Climate Metadata Analyst Industrial Placement to help us make a difference to our planet.

This role may be suitable for hybrid working, with a minimum of one day per week in the office. The advertised location will be your contractual place of work.

This is a full-time role, 37 hours per week.

Your World of Expertise

Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts. You’ll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.

Observations are fundamental to almost all the services that the Met Office provides. Key to ensuring the quality and understanding the characteristics of this data is assessing the local conditions under which data is taken. This information is collectively described as Observational metadata and takes a variety of forms including photographs, maps, communications, inspection reports and digitised database fields. Some early forms of metadata exist in the Met Office Archives dating back to 1900.

This opportunity will also include being part of an operational team providing live Observational data to the Met Office products and services, with opportunities to experience and contribute to a wider range of activities. In addition to the scientific impact on data, these sources of metadata also provide important accounts which should aid celebration of these historic partnerships, becoming part of our internal and external communications.

Your Key Duties

• Focusing on conducting the review and assessment of a wide variety of evidence. This may require some detective work and consideration of impacts and uncertainties from findings in comparison to site data.
• Being part of an operational team providing live Observational data to the Met Office products and services, with opportunities to experience and contribute to a wider range of activities.
• Supporting the development of relationships with customers, partners, stakeholders and suppliers in order to maintain the Met Office's reputation. The sources of metadata can provide important accounts which should aid celebration of our historic partnerships, becoming part of our internal and external communications and press.

Essential Criteria, Skills and Experience

1. Lead Criteria: Ability to systematically analyse data from a variety of sources and proactively investigate leads.
2. Communication: Ability to communicate technical information clearly and concisely to a range of customers with varying levels of technical understanding and express outcomes with consideration of uncertainties.
3. Engagement: Ability to communicate information of interest in a factual but engaging manner.
4. Autonomy: Ability to work unsupervised at times, delivering tasks to deadlines.
5. Improvement: Ability to develop better ways of working and see through changes to ensure a better outcome.

Why Join Us

• Your salary will be £27,170.
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days.
• Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands.

Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2028, there may be an opportunity to apply for our Graduate Development scheme upon completion of your university studies (subject to availability and successful application).

How to Apply

Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing Date

23:59 8th November 2026.

Interviews

Interviews will be completed by 16th December 2026.

Important Information

• We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK.
• Security clearance is required, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, with 2 of these years being immediately preceding the point of your application.
• We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience.