Earth Observation Mission Management and Product Quality Division Head

3 settimane fa

Frascati, Lazio, Italia EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY A tempo pieno
Earth Observation Mission Management and Product Quality Division Head

As the Head of the Earth Observation Mission Management and Product Quality Division at the European Space Agency, you will be responsible for managing Earth Observation (EO) missions during their exploitation phase (Phase E2 and beyond). This includes procuring third-party missions' capacity and ensuring the EO product quality of the missions.

Duties

Key responsibilities include:

  • Managing ESA EO missions, i.e. the Earth Explorer and Earth Watch missions in Phase E2.
  • Managing Copernicus missions handled by ESA, i.e. Sentinel missions in Phase E2.
  • Ensuring the exploitation, operations, and evolution of the above missions in line with mission requirements and evolving user or service needs.
  • Ensuring overall EO product quality, including product and processor performance and evolution, calibration and validation activities.
  • Managing activities relating to the procurement of third-party mission capacities, including ESA customer role with EO commercial missions.
  • Managing ESA EO heritage mission data.
  • Elaborating future scenarios for mission, ground segment, and EO data management in view of expanding EO data framework, data volumes and variety, and user needs.
  • Contributing to the further integration and increased efficiency of the Department in accordance with its objectives.
  • Supporting increased cooperation with other departments of the Directorate, particularly efforts towards increased end-to-end mission coherency.
Qualifications

Requirements include:

  • Broad understanding of the Earth Observation domain.
  • Solid experience with Earth Observation data exploitation and user communities in both scientific and operational applications domains.
  • Sound knowledge of Earth Observation programmes at European, national, and international levels.
  • Acquaintance with operators of Earth Observation missions in public and commercial domains, and with their stakeholders.
Core Competencies

Essential competencies include:

  • Result Orientation
  • Operational Efficiency
  • Fostering Cooperation
  • Relationship Management
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Forward Thinking
Education

A PhD or master's degree in a natural science or engineering is required for this post.Additional Requirements

Desirable competencies include:

  • Extensive experience of project management in an international context.
  • Ability to communicate and promote the achievements of Earth Observation in general and ESA missions in particular.
  • Ability to promote performance and foster cooperation within and across teams in a matrix organisational context.

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