Digital Earth Africa: Technical Manager

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa The South African National Space Agency Full time

**INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VACANCY ADVERTISEMENT**

Digital Earth Africa aims to improve the lives of people across the African continent by translating Earth observations into insights that will support sustainable development.

Our platform and services enable African governments, industry and decision-makers to track changes across the continent in unprecedented detail. This provides valuable insights for better decision-making across many areas, including flooding, drought, soil and coastal erosion, agriculture, forest cover, land use and land cover change, water availability and quality, and changes to human settlements.

Digital Earth Africa has partnered with South African National Space Agency to establish a Program Management Office situated in South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria. The following opportunity exists within the Program Management Office to be filled by an individual with the relevant skills, drive, competencies, and qualifications. The role will be based in west Africa to promote geographical diversity.

**TECHNICAL MANAGER (USER ENGAGEMENT and SCIENCE SUPPORT) - WEST AFRICA**

**12 Months Fixed-Term Performance-Based Contract**

? Preparing technical materials (e.g. Jupyter notebooks) and documentation to support user needs;
? Supporting the training and capacity-building program for DE Africa across partner institutions;
? Partner engagement and management to ensure objectives of each partnership are being fulfilled to expectations including the development of additional partnerships;
? Stakeholder engagement and outreach on the use and benefits of the DE Africa infrastructure;
? Be available to present at workshops and conferences across Africa and internationally;
? Maintaining and promoting awareness of the DE Africa help desk and provide help desk assistance to users across Africa;
? Supporting the development of challenges and hackathons;
? Supporting the development of case studies and blogs about new use cases and innovation on the use of earth observation data to support development challenges;
? Developing and communicating training status reports and other project presentation materials as needed

? A relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification;
? Knowledge of remote sensing principles and experience in working with time-series remotely sensed data and image processing/GIS software including workflow development and scripting;
? Proven experience in working with Earth Observation datasets or EO analysis platforms;
? Demonstrated ability to develop well documented Python scripts or Jupyter Notebooks for EO analysis;
? Demonstrated ability of successful collaboration with stakeholders and clients including internationally;
? Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as an effective member of a team;
? An interest in the African environment and a broad understanding of processes that affect it;
? Demonstrated experience in working with Digital Earth Africa, the Africa Regional Data Cube or other Open Data Cube Community activities;
? Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with technical, financial teams, end users, and key stakeholders; and

? Experience running technical training programmes.

**Key areas of responsibility will include but are not limited to**:
? Maintenance of a demand-driven DE Africa Jupyter notebook portfolio;
? User engagement and training;
? Partner engagement and support;
? Stakeholder engagement and support.

Background verification, including criminal record, credit checks, security clearances, qualification and citizenship checks as well as competency assessment and psychometric testing, may form part of the selection process.
- DE Africa reserves the right to not make an appointment._

**Closing date: 15 February 2023

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