Dates and timeframe: The secondment will take place on Monday 21st April - Friday 2nd May 2025

Purpose of secondment: Full overview of the inner workings of NOAA (HO) and IC-ENC North America (RENC)

Desired outcomes / benefits: Understanding and gaining insights into the operations of a peer HO. Familiarising oneself with the IC-ENC regional office. Exploring potential improvements and better practices for their own processes.

Structure:

Week 1 - Attend meetings, two days in Nautical Data Branch, Dissemination processes and policies, one day with Production Team. ENC Production Management. Work alongside IC-ENC North America team (ENC Validation).

Week 2 –  Working with Esri tools in a production environment.

Secondee requirements: English language, knowledge of ENC’s and production systems as well as general Validation experience.

Pre-work: No pre-work required.

Follow up work: Secondee to provide a journal/article to IC-ENC sharing their experience. Secondee to share their learnings at IC-ENC Technical Conference or Steering Committee (if appropriate). Any relevant information to be shared with Members via the IC-ENC LMS.

Capacity: 1 attendee

Language: English

Deadline for applications: Friday 27th December 2024

Read about the first Member to Member secondment, hosted by UKHO in August 2024 - Click here

To read more about the secondment scheme policy and working practice, please click here