Project Support Officer - Swindon, United Kingdom - UK Space Agency

UK Space Agency

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Swindon, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Salary:

- £31,120 - £37,260-
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Project Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Didcot, South East England, OX11 0

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Swindon, South West England, SN2 1

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City of Westminster, London (region), SW1H 0NBAbout the job

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Background:

The UK Space Agency:

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is an executive agency of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) and provides technical advice on the government's space strategy, supporting the UK space sector to deliver the government's vision.

Space is a part of everyday life. Satellites underpin our national economy, from agriculture and banking to aviation and shipping, and support our national security.

Space science provides critical data to understand and address global challenges such as climate change, while missions to explore our solar system unite nations and advance humanity's horizons.

We support a thriving space sector in the UK, which generates an annual income of £16.5 billion and employs 47,000 people across the country.

Through our portfolio of programmes and projects, we encourage the development of national space capabilities and are an early-stage investor in space research and development.

We also promote the UK space sector's interests and achievements; make connections to join up industry and academia; and represent the UK in international space programmes

We have a powerful global voice, partnering with institutions across the world, including the European Space Agency.

Our Inclusive Environment

We have an inclusive culture to make UKSA a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves.

We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension.

We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer.

We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

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Context
The Spaceflight Programme is a high priority within the UKSA and across government.

Working closely with colleagues from the Department for Transport (DfT) and others, it aims to enable businesses to offer new services from UK's first spaceports: launching small satellites and offering sub-orbital space flights for research and tourism.

The programme aims to unlock significant new benefits from these services, including a share of the estimated £15bn small satellite launch opportunity by the end of the decade, new local economic activity around spaceport site(s), and new highly skilled jobs in space science and technology.

Establishing launch capability in the UK is an exciting and challenging task. Our success will depend on the effective delivery of a complex programme of work involving a diverse stakeholder community. This requires effective management and planning, for which the post holder will be a key enabler.

More information about the programme can be found in our 'Launch UK' prospectus here:

Purpose, Aims and Objectives
The Project Support Officer role covers a diverse range of activities to support the delivery of the programme's objectives.

The purpose of the role is to support the smooth running of the Spaceflight programme by supporting the Project Managers and wider Programme Management Office (PMO) to deliver effective programme management processes with a particular focus on reporting, finance and supporting production of the Full Business Case for the second phase of the Spaceflight Programme.

The programme team includes resources from the Department for Transport; as well as having interfaces with many other departments. The post holders will have an important role to play in ensuring that coherence is sustained across the team.

The role requires detailed engagement and close working across the programme, in particular supporting the benefits monitoring and management, project management and detailed scheduling and planning capability for a number of projects.

In addition, working with the wider PMO team to ensure the effective delivery of programme boards, maintenance of the project and MSP programme plans, Plan On A Page (POAP), risk and issue registers etc., and underpinning both programme and project level governance, in particular the Full Business Case.

The post holder will report to the Project Support Officer and will be based in one of the UK Space Agency locations in London, Swindon or Harwell; with travel to the o