Assistant Director, Technical Procurement and Financial Strategy at Geoscience Australia

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The Australian Government has announced it will partner with the United States in the Landsat Next Earth satellite program. Underpinned by new investment of $207.4m over the next 4 years, Australia will become the first country to join the Landsat 2030 International Partnerships Initiative.

Australia’s contributions to this partnership will be delivered by Geoscience Australia and will involve investment in new science to take full advantage of Landsat Next’s advanced capabilities, including an up to nine-fold increase in spatial resolution for key bands, more than twice the number of spectral bands, and increased frequency of data collection. Geoscience Australia will also deliver significant improvements to our satellite ground station in Alice Springs, our data processing and distribution, quality assurance and integrity monitoring, and Digital Earth and Digital Atlas capabilities.

The Satellite Land Imaging Collection Branch (SLIC) will be at the forefront of Australia’s delivery of the Landsat Next partnership. A small but rapidly growing branch, SLIC comprises experts from a range of disciplines including data science, engineering, programmatics, Earth observations and remote sensing science, quality, and technical assurance.

The Assistant Director, Technical Procurement and Financial Strategy is responsible for providing advice, assurance, and management for Satellite Land Imaging Collection branch contracts, planning multi-year capital and operational budgets, and providing program-level fiscal management, advice, and reporting.

In this role you will:

  • Provide professional advice, assurance, and management for Satellite Land Imaging Collection branch contracts.

  • Provide program-level fiscal management, advice, and reporting including overseeing and contributing to routine budget processes.

  • Work with Satellite Land Imaging Collection branch executive and project managers to plan multi-year capital and operational budgets, ensuring that budget phasing aligns with contract and project milestones and payments.

  • Provide the Satellite Land Imaging Collection executive and other stakeholders with advice and best-practice approaches to financial contingency management, including the development of papers for senior management and GA’s internal Investment Finance Committee.

  • Support the Satellite Land Imaging Collection executive and project managers in establishing and maintaining productive stakeholder relationships with commercial suppliers, government entities, and other contract partners.

  • Contribute to the strategic planning of the System Engineering and Coordination section and Satellite Land Imaging Collection branch, develop long-term business plans, and monitor workflow and performance.

  • Work closely with Geoscience Australia’s central procurement and contract management areas to ensure complementarity between Satellite Land Imaging Collection contracts and finances and enterprise-level processes and requirements.

Applications close 1 May 2024.