Project Manager in Earth Observation and Biodiversity 40 - 100 %

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Your responsibilities

• The post includes the project management of an European Space Agency (ESA)-funded project to further develop and operationalize an existing tool for calculating genetic diversity indicators to support, implement and establish the approach for biodiversity monitoring within the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) worldwide.
• The position furthermore includes coordination of the project team, exchange with the ESA technical officer, managing interactions with the users of the tool and use cases to demonstrate the tool's usefulness, outreach activities, and the exchange with the larger -Genes from Space (www.genesfromspace.org)- initiative.

Your profile

The Remote Sensing Spectroscopy group at the University of Zurich (UZH) (Department of Geography) is looking for a scientist ideally holding a PhD or a master's degree in Earth Observation, Remote Sensing, or similar fields and with experience working in the domains of biodiversity, land cover, genetic diversity and/or satellite Earth observation

• Experience in satellite data processing, e.g., land cover data sets, time series, large datasets (-big data-)
• Advanced programming skills preferably in Python or R
• Experience with ESA-type projects and/or a strong background in project planning and realisation (project management)
• Analytical and systematic thinking, with a solid mathematical background
• Innovative and out-of-the-box thinking, curiosity, strong motivation to learn new things
• Strong communication skills for a (truly) interdisciplinary team and to handle user-oriented communication
• Additional experience in biodiversity, genetic diversity, conservation, or (spatial) ecology is preferred

What we offer

• Embedding in an extremely motivated, need-driven and innovative project team
• Technical development of tools, apps or software in socially relevant and applied research projects to make EO data available for a broad non-expert audience
• A flexible and agile work environment to allow creative ideas
• An interdisciplinary team and work environment and a supportive team culture
• Insights into the space and biodiversity networks (e.g., with ESA and GEO BON)
• Opportunities to contribute to outreach activities