SGAC Vacant Positions
Current positions available
- Web Admin
- International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) liaison
- News Team Assistant Editor
- PHP+MySQL Programmer
- National Points of Contact
- Helping out in general
For details, please see below.
Web Admin
SGAC is looking for a new web admin. We need:
- Linux System Admin
- Familiar with Ubuntu (6.06 'Dapper')
- Postfix/dovecot experience
- PHP and mysql experience
- Mailman experience
- Reliable background with references
This is a volunteer position. If you are interested in helping in this capacity, please contact Alex
International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) liaison
SGAC is searching for an International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) liaison. Find out more details here. Deadline is Friday, July 4!
News Team Assistant Editor
We are currently looking for volunteers that can:
- help populate interesting news stories
- interview people with questions relevant to our SGAC community
- contribute astronomy facts for our 'in the skies' section
- Finding a key issue/article we want to discuss with the members in our community
This will allow volunteers to meet dynamic people & experts and interact with them on topical subjects of importance as young professionals and active space advocates.
Join us at news@spacegeneration.org
PHP+MySQL Programmer
The NoanGea Portal is a general space-platform. The main topics are Space, E-ducation, OurWorld, technology-transfer and infomation-portal.
The NoanGea Portal is looking for a programmer with PHP and MySQL knowledge and Joomla experience.
This is a volunteer position. If you are interested in helping in this capacity, please contact Alex.
National Points of Contact
Check our regional pages (coming soon) and take a look at your country. Contact your National Point of Contact (NPoC) and tell him/her that you are interested in space activities. If there is none, you can become NPoC yourself, see here how.
Helping out
Apart from a very small office, the Space Generation is run by volunteer members. We are always looking for active people who would like to become an volunteer. If you've some spare time and want to get some excellent real-world practice in some area, consider volunteering with us! There are many ways you can help us, and a few examples are:
- Currently, we need people to help out with the website.
- Editors, text writers, or technically skilled people can help with our newsletter, reports and papers.
- We are also looking for people that want to help to make Space Generation better known around the world, so this requires enthusiasm for marketing, public relations, media, creativity, and more.
- We are also looking for people that have business skills as we want to raise money so that we can get projects really off the ground.
And we have plenty more suggestions of how you can help us.
If you are interested in helping out in some capacity, please, contact us. If you are not sure what you can do, we can offer you plenty of suggestions. Our organisation is so large that there is always something that you can do that you like! (just let us know what you like)

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