Duties and Responsibilities

Within the technical domains defined above, your tasks and responsibilities will include the following:

 Workload assessment and assignment:

• Establishing the (multi-year) plan of activities for the Section, covering required competencies and assignment of resources;
• Establishing annual objectives and managing/coordinating, on a day-to-day basis, specialised technical support in the Section’s fields of expertise in full collaboration with the functional managers;
• Actively contributing to increasing the agility and flexibility required to meet the short-notice and peak-period resource needs of projects;
• Accountability for all activities and resources delegated to the Section, and for resolving possible conflicting demands on the use of the Section’s resources.

 Talent management:

• Maintaining state-of-the-art expertise in the Section – identifying, developing, maintaining and tracking the technical competencies required to meet current and future strategic needs;
• Driving the development of people within your area of responsibility, facilitating the development of people beyond your area of responsibility, and encouraging mobility when it serves the organisation’s interests;
• Encouraging the integration of newcomers and contributing to their initial development plans, in particular in the first three years of their contracts.

 Support management:

• Monitoring, measuring and reporting on performance at individual and team level, in particular regarding the Section’s objectives;
• Accountability to the hierarchy for all daily matters within the Section and for the achievement of the Section’s objectives.

 Expertise: management of tools/processes/working methods:

• Ensuring regular interaction between the Section members, supporting teamwork, the exchange of experience and lessons learned, and the gathering of feedback;
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of working procedures, tools, processes, expert working methods and delivery methods, such as lessons learned and knowledge management, and to reflections on the evolution of the Section’s role and activities;
• Representing the Agency in your area(s) of expertise within ESA and with external entities, including industry and delegations;
• Coordinating the dissemination of the Section’s results within and beyond ESA, in particular via conferences, workshops and R&D presentation days.

R&D/technology management:

• In line with anticipated technology trends and project needs, defining, promoting and implementing the Section’s contributions to ESA technology programmes and R&D activities;
• Coordinating, where applicable, the requirements of technology elements in your domain of expertise with the overall requirements of systems being developed under the responsibility of other areas in the Directorate;
• Liaising with relevant technology expert groups and coordination mechanisms.

Technical competencies

Behavioural competencies

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

For more information, please refer to ESA Core Behavioural Competencies guidebook