A Scientific Officer is mainly deployed on :

• (a)performing weather forecasting duties; and
• (b)supervising and training staff and carrying out research in connection with the provision of services in areas including weather, climate, time and geophysics, radiation monitoring, physical oceanography, aviation meteorology, marine meteorology, applied meteorology, data processing and information technology.

A Scientific Officer may be required to :

• (i)attend professional training course locally. He/She may also be sent on an overseas course in meteorology and/or other relevant subjects; and
• (ii)perform “on-call” duty and work outdoors, shifts, outside normal office hours, or in adverse weather conditions.

Candidates should have :

• (a)a first or second class honours Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Mathematics, Meteorology, Nuclear Science, or an appropriate science subject from a university in Hong Kong, or equivalent;
• (b)
  • (i)at least two years’ post-graduate working experience in meteorology; or
  • (ii)a Master degree in Physics, Mathematics, Meteorology, Nuclear Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronic Engineering or an appropriate science subject from a university in Hong Kong, or equivalent;
• (c)met the language proficiency requirements of ‘Level 1’ results [see Note (1)] in the two language papers (Use of Chinese [see Note (2)] and Use of English [see Note (2)] in the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE), or equivalent; and
• (d)a pass result in the Basic Law and National Security Law Test.