Vacancy Details


Assistant Director - Digital Earth Australia Technologies

Applications close 15 October 2020

Ongoing and/or Non-ongoing

Contact name: David Gavin

Phone: (02) 6249 9545

Email: David.Gavin@ga.gov.au 

 

Geoscience Australia is Australia's pre-eminent public sector geoscience organisation. We are the nation's trusted advisor on the geology and geography of Australia. We apply science and technology to describe and understand the Earth for the benefit of Australia. We apply our diverse professional expertise, our deep and trusted knowledge, our national-scale Earth observation infrastructure and our strong partnerships, to the opportunities and challenges that face our nation. 

We are seeking an Assistant Director capable of exemplifying and evangelising a workplace culture that values close collaboration, inclusiveness and servant leadership. In this role you will:

• lead a multidisciplinary team by negotiating, prioritisation conflicts, helping people to navigate the context of their work and supporting people through their challenges;

• nurture a productive, collaborative and inclusive team culture;

• mentor scientific product and software developers in best practice approaches to software development and Amazon Web Services solution architecture;

• attract, develop and retain skilled team members

• build, maintain and strengthen relationships with external collaborators;

• lead team and program planning rituals;

• build tested, scalable and fit-for-purpose, open source software for users across the world to use and build upon;

• build secure, robust and cost-efficient solution infrastructure upon commercial cloud platforms; and 

• deliver scientifically derived digital products and services for broad consumption.

 

See the role profile for more details and click apply above.