Mission Lead

Employment Type Full time- Location Hybrid - Didcot, UK 2-3 days in the Harwell office and travel (when required) within the UK- Salary £90,000 - £110,000 (GBP)- Seniority Senior- **Closing**: 5:30pm, 6th Mar 2024 GMT

**Perks and benefits**:

- Flexible working hours- Work from home option- Healthcare- Life Insurance- Wellness programs- Employee Assistance Programme- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave- Extra holiday- Sabbatical Opportunities- Professional development- Paid volunteer days- Salary sacrifice- Team social events- Extracurricular clubs- Cycle to work scheme**Job Description**:
Would you like to be at the heart of developing innovative and transformative ideas? Are you interested in being part of a team that ensures space technology can address UK and global societal challenges? Do you want to lead a Mission which will make a real difference? If so, you may be who we’re looking for

The Satellite Applications Catapult (Catapult) is at the forefront of the burgeoning UK Space Industry. Our mission leads identify and unlock the growth opportunities and impacts from a space sector perspective. This is a unique opportunity to work with experts all over the country. Working collaboratively, you will create and lead a team to help grow the UK’s space sector.

Our four missions are strongly aligned with the Space Strategy themes to “Grow and level-up our space economy” and “Use space to deliver for UK citizens and the world”. They create the conditions for the space sector to flourish by delivering innovation with purpose. The mission-oriented innovation approach provides a framework for targeted innovation, through which we will achieve our intended impacts: UK growth, development and adoption of satellite-enabled technologies, and delivery of cross-cutting policy priorities.

**Our Connected/Autonomous Earth** missions utilise the unique capabilities of space technology to create a more connected, efficient, and sustainable world. The focus being, striking to advance the development of implementation of satellite enabled autonomous technologies to increase the effectiveness and utility of humanity to meet the grand challenges of the 21st Century.

By 2030, we aim to see safe, secure and performant connectivity available everywhere and affordable by every person. Leveraging satellite technology to build a more connected world will bring high-speed internet access to people living in remote and underserved areas. This will enable people to connect with the rest of the world, access critical services and empower them with opportunities to learn and prosper. The details are for you to shape and bring to life.

Reporting into our Chief of Missions, this is a highly networked role that requires an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines. It requires knowledge and skills in team management, leadership and collaboration, strong commercial acumen and depth of knowledge and experience in a key area that would enable at least one of our Missions (that could be anything from space systems engineering, Net zero, anthropology etc). Prior experience of bidding for and shaping technical projects and services is an advantage but not essential.

Key Responsibilities:
**As the Mission lead, you will.**
- ** Collaborate **- you will demonstrate by example that the best solutions come from a diverse group of thinkers, within our organisation and beyond it
- ** Make a difference** - Drive growth of the team’s impact for the UK, through thought-leadership, collaboration, creating and pursuing opportunities and delivery on commitments.
- ** Meet needs** - Ensure availability of staff is well-matched to foreseen and potential demands from our activities.
- ** Manage and support your People** - Line Management and development of staff within the team.
- ** Coordinate** - Ensure that SAC is more than the sum of its parts. Support and draw on every function of the Catapult, to achieve best possible impact.
- ** Shape** and lead the strategy and delivery of the Intervention (including projects and services that comprise it) ensuring realisation of outputs and outcomes towards the Catapult’s mission goals and objectives.

**You will also be involved in**
- Developing a financial plan for impact creating activity and a schedule for milestones.
- Preparing to adapt, pause or cancel the activities if it is the best decision for the Mission and overall Catapult objectives.
- Think outside the box - activities will vary in maturity and scale, and therefore, intervention owners may be focused on different aspects at different times, for example framing big ideas whereas others may be focused on achieving funding and delivery. Interventions cannot be funded by core grant alone.

**We expect that you would have the following skills and experience**
- Experience of building, leading and developing high performing, multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to support the development of commercial opportu