Corporate AI Coordinator

Your role

ECMWF is implementing a corporate strategy to embed artificial intelligence across its support functions, including Finance, HR, Procurement, Communications, Legal, IT, and Facilities. This transformation aims to improve efficiency, scalability, and service quality, while aligning with broader digital and ERP integration goals. The strategy is guided by a phased roadmap and supported by a dedicated AI Task Force.

This role is designed to fill a critical knowledge and capacity gap in the organisation, supporting the implementation of ECMWF’s AI Corporate Strategy ). You will be a member of the AI Task Force and contribute to its coordination and oversight activities. You will work closely with external consultants – who will be engaged through a separate procurement process – to support the assessment of workflows, data systems, and operational needs.

You will help translate findings into actionable plans, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and provide technical and strategic input to ensure coherent and responsible adoption of AI technologies across corporate functions. At ECMWF, you will join a passionate community collectively aiming to bring novel technologies and science to cutting‑edge numerical weather prediction. ECMWF has been the first operational weather centre globally to implement and operate an AI driven weather forecasting model marked by the launch of the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) in February 2025.

The AI Coordinator will facilitate the organic integration of AI solutions across the organisation, supporting corporate objectives. You will serve as the primary point of coordination for AI‑related initiatives, helping the organisation adopt AI in line with its corporate strategy, security, and risk management.

The European Centre for Medium‑Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is a world leader in Numerical Weather Predictions providing high‑quality data for weather forecasts and environmental monitoring. As an intergovernmental organisation we collaborate internationally to serve our members and the wider community with global weather predictions, data and training activities that are critical to contribute to safe and thriving societies.

The success of our activities depends on the funding and partnerships of our 35 Member and Co‑operating States who provide the support and direction of our work. Our talented staff together with the international scientific community, and our powerful supercomputing capabilities, are the core of a 24 / 7 research and operational centre with a focus on medium and long‑range predictions.

We also hold one of the largest meteorological data archives in the world.

Deliver global numerical weather predictions focusing on the medium‑range and monitoring of the Earth system to and with our Member States

World‑leading monitoring and predictions of the Earth System enabled by cutting‑edge physical, computational and data science, resulting from a close collaboration between ECMWF and the members of the European Meteorological Infrastructure, will contribute to a safe and thriving society

In addition, ECMWF has established a strong partnership with the European Union and has been entrusted with the implementation and operation of the Destination Earth initiative and the Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services of the Copernicus Programme, as well as being a contributor to the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. Other areas of work include High Performance Computing and the development of digital tools that enable ECMWF to extend provision of data and products covering weather, climate, air quality, fire and flood prediction and monitoring.

ECMWF is a multi‑site organisation, with its headquarters in Reading, UK, a data centre in Bologna, Italy, and a large presence in Bonn, Germany as a central location for our EU‑related activities. ECMWF is internationally recognised as the voice of expertise in numerical weather predictions for forecasts and climate science.

ECMWF is a multi‑site organisation, with a main office in Reading, UK, a data centre / supercomputer in Bologna, Italy, and a…