CTAO Senior Project Manager Vacancy

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a multinational project to build two sites of telescope arrays in the northern and southern hemisphere to observe extremely high energy photons from the Universe with greatly improved sensitivity than has been done previously. On the site of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma (Canaries, Spain) and at the European Southern Observatory in Chile about 120 telescopes will be installed, in order to measure the Cherenkov radiation produced by the atmospheric particle showers initiated by cosmic photons.

About 200 research institutions from 32 countries are involved in designing and prototyping this large scale research infrastructure. The current transition to the implementation phase is driven by a core of countries acting as the shareholders of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) limited liability company through which the project is governed and funded. While the construction of the infrastructure on the sites and all software development is to be managed centrally, most of the telescopes and other scientific components will be delivered as in-kind contributions by interested institutions from all over the world. According to present plans the majority of construction is scheduled to be complete around 2022 within a budget of 400M€. The observatory is designed for 30 years of operational lifetime. The CTAO headquarters for operation and administration is presently being set-up in Bologna. It will be supported by a science data management centre near Berlin.

CTA is seeking a Senior Project Manager for the management of the construction of the telescope arrays, of the necessary infrastructure and for the preparation of the organization of the scientific operation and technical maintenance phase. For further information, including how to apply can be found here: https://www.cta-observatory.org/jobs/.

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