Space Partnership Co-ordinator

Role Purpose: 

The Satellite Applications Catapult (the Catapult) is recruiting a Coordinator to join the Space Partnership team. The Space Partnership brings industry, academia and government together to agree shared priorities and identify collective action to deliver the ambition in the National Space Strategy. The Space Partnership is a small team working across the UK space sector to bring the wealth of knowledge and expertise available to produce insights and information for the Space Partnership Board. This exciting role will enable you to gain a fundamental understanding of the UK space sector and how each stakeholder group works together to inform the future direction for the sector including policy makers.  If this opportunity excites you, you might be just the person we're looking for!

This role is Harwell based and you will be expected to be in the Harwell office at least two days per week, with some travel across the UK for face-to-face meetings and events.

Ways of Working:

The role reports into the Space Partnership Director, but you will also be part of the National Space Capabilities and Clusters (NCC) Team within Satellite Applications Catapult, which is taking the lead on creating a thriving and collaborative UK Space Ecosystem. As part of the Catapult, you will be part of a learning organisation where our ways of working are underpinned by coaching and feedback, fostering adult to adult conversations. Innovation is at the heart of everything that we do, therefore being highly adaptive and agile with a GROWTH mindset will ensure your success at the Catapult.

Key responsibilities:

• The Space Partnership Coordinator will work closely with the Space Partnership Director and team to draw information and insights from representatives from across the UK space sector to inform Space Partnership projects. This will involve a wide range of different activities from coordinating events to summarising project insights in carefully designed infographics. The varied role will include:

• Organising Space Partnership meetings and workshops: This will involve securing dates, identifying and arranging venues, booking travel and ordering refreshments. You will be responsible for advertising the event, sending out agendas and instructions in good time, preparing slides (MS PowerPoint), supporting on the day, capturing the outputs, sharing event summaries with attendees and ensuring that the contribution from attendees is accurately captured. For virtual events you will take a leading role in coordinating the online meetings with breakout rooms and monitoring the Q&A (MS Teams).

• Coordinating Space Partnership attendance at conferences: This will involve maintaining a list of UK space conferences and supporting the different types of attendance, from arranging conference tickets and associated travel, to arranging a Space Partnership stand at a conference. You will raise purchase orders, liaise with graphic design teams for materials and represent the Space Partnership at events.

• Managing the Space Partnership communication channels: You will be responsible for producing a short monthly newsletter, organising the quarterly online Engagement Forum and posting twice a month on the Space Partnership LinkedIn page. This will involve working closely with the Space Partnership Director and team to identify and develop content and present it in an engaging manner.

• As part of a small team, daily tasks will vary to support the needs of the Space Partnership which makes for a challenging role where adaptability on a weekly basis is necessary. It requires an individual that has demonstrable organisational skills and is competent in using Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel. 

Skills & Experience Required:

•  Strong planning and organisational skills (essential)

•  Able to deliver a range of different tasks on varying timescales, efficiently prioritise workload (essential)

• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills with excellent attention to detail (essential)

• Engaging communication style in a variety of formats such as newsletters and social media (essential)

• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. (essential)

• Knowledge of the Space Sector (desirable)

• Experience of organising events (desirable)

Success factors: You know you have been successful when…

• Space Partnership events and other activities are well organised and run smoothly, with appropriate information before, during and after for all attendees.

• The Space Partnership communications are widely read, leading to an engaged audience that attends events and provides regular feedback.

• The Space Partnership is able to readily draw knowledge and expertise from industry, academia and Government across the UK to support Space Partnership projects.

The purpose of your new team:

• The purpose of the Space Partnership team is to bring together industry, academia and Government to deliver on the ambition laid out in the National Space Strategy.

• The Space Partnership is accountable to the Space Partnership Board.

• The Space Partnership will draw on expert knowledge and insight from across the whole space ecosystem and work collaboratively to support a range of activities that require a whole-of-sector approach.

About us & how we work: 

We strive to create a high trust, high performance and inclusive environment that enables team members to bring their whole selves to work.  This helps to create the foundations of an innovation culture. Our shared values are critical to this: 

• We care - for our people, our partners, and our planet

• We connect - and engage with people and ideas

• We learn - and grow, as people and as an industry

Underpinning this is our belief in great teams.  Our combined efforts will always deliver outcomes beyond that of any individual, providing we are honest through debate, experiment and reflect, and create shared resolutions in support of our purpose. Live these values, work to our principles, take ownership to deliver, and we are certain you will thrive with us. 

This job description set outs the skills and experience we think are needed to be able to perform in this job.  If you believe you can deliver in this role then we want to hear from you.

Important notice for applicants: We use tools to detect plagiarism and the use of AI or chatbots for applicant answers. If plagiarism, AI use (such as ChatGPT) or similar software are found to have been used in your application you will not be considered for this or future roles within the Satellite Applications Catapult.

At Satellite Applications Catapult, we're committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome candidates from all corners of the globe, but due to legal and logistical considerations, we want to be transparent about the potential visa-related challenges that could arise. Our ability to offer sponsorship will depend on the level of interest for our roles and salary level.

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Please note that we offer study support (at our discretion) and on the job training will be provided.