As part of the team you will have the following responsibilities:
- Establishing and supporting a user community, engaging them in science definition activities and preparing the establishment of a formal Science Team;
- Generating science and research objectives and requirements;
- Supporting the supplier team led by the Project Manager / Technical Officer in establishing a technical baseline and system requirements that address the science and research requirements;
- Iterating those requirements during studies and in consultation with users in response to the technical work performed;
- Supporting benefit management as the benefit owner for all science and research benefits;
- Assessing the technical baseline, system requirements and performance against the science requirements in reviews;
- Preparing the Science Management Plan;
- Leading or supporting research activities which support the development of missions and system concepts and requirements;
- Preparing and coordinating Announcements of Opportunity, Peer Reviews and Selection processes for Experiments, Science Teams, and Projects;
- Supporting in the management of science teams and preparations for science operations;
- Preparing science operations and science data pipelines for scientific utilization;
- Supporting science operations activities;
- Ensuring that scientific data is made available to the community and supporting its utilization;
- Initiating and supporting research activities which aid design and implementation;
- Post operations support to users of the data, which is made available through the ESA archive.