Job Description:

The Catapult’s Resilient Earth (RE) strategy takes a system-level approach to building UK economic growth and resilience, enabling businesses to scale through trusted adoption in high-growth sectors. The RE strategy spans across two interventions – Natural Capital & Traceability and clean Energy & Infrastructure. In each of these interventions exist complex markets with the potential of adopting space technologies. This placement will be to investigate markets and the opportunities within them relevant to the Natural Capital & Traceability intervention. This intervention embeds trusted, space-enabled monitoring and assurance into nature finance and critical mineral supply chains to overcome trust, compliance and procurement barriers that limit market uptake. This project will align policy, financial and industrial demand with high-potential UK capabilities enables adoption and growth, strengthening resilience. The applicant will identify those market opportunities and innovation gaps with the most impact and economic growth potential for the intervention to pursue within the Critical Mineral Supply Chains growth area.

The internship will involve:

• Market Analysis and Assessment: Evaluating market characteristics, trends and drivers, as well as building understanding of key players and stakeholders interacting within the market.

• Demand and adoption analysis: examine the adoption curve for space-based solutions across industries, and identification of factors influencing that demand, including SWOT analysis.

• Stakeholder engagement: Engaging both internally, to build knowledge of applicable technical solutions as well as externally, to support value proposition and opportunity development is expected.

The successful applicant should have the following qualities and abilities:

Skills:

Technical

• Practical experience in market analysis of emerging markets with a high degree of innovation

• Working knowledge of economic analysis and scenario analysis

• Understanding of space technology applied to terrestrial sectors.

Human

• Collaborative Working

• Independent thinking.

• Strategic thinking.

• Communication skills, both written and verbal to a range of colleagues both technical and strategic.

Academic requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Business, Consulting, Business Strategy, Economics or similar (industry and market research, data synthesis and analysis, economic and trend analysis, communication and presentation skills are key)

Desirable requirements:

• a demonstrated interest in mining/mineral exploration and an interest in applied space data applications.

Process details:

• 8 weeks minimum fixed term contract to be agreed with successful candidate

• 5 days holiday to be taken during the placement

How we work at Satellite Applications Catapult….

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 anyone 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. However, 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. If you need any additional support during the application process, please do reach out and connect. We also invite you to share feedback via Applied.

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. Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

If you need any additional support during the application process, please do reach out and connect. We also invite you to share feedback via Applied.