Space Investment Lead

2 weeks ago

Didcot, United Kingdom Satellite Applications Catapult Full time

Employment Type Full time- Location Hybrid - Didcot, UK The role will involve working onsite 1-2 days per week in Harwell- Salary £65,000 - £80,000 (GBP) The salary is depending on experience- Seniority Senior- **Closing**: 5:30pm, 18th 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**:
**Role: Space Investment Lead**

**Reporting to: Investment & Strategic Finance Director**

**Base: Harwell**

Would you like to be at the heart of an ecosystem where science fiction becomes reality? Are you interested in being part of a team that is accelerating the growth of the next economic frontier? Do you want to be in a role that can have outsized impact on the UK? If so, you may be who we’re looking for.

The Satellite Applications Catapult (‘SAC’ or ‘the Catapult’) is at the forefront of the burgeoning UK space industry. As the industry continues to grow, there is a need for far more capital to fund that growth from a wider, more diversified set of investors. In particular, the most promising space start-ups want to scale up as fast as possible and need significant investment to do so.

Our Space Investment Lead, reporting into our Investment and Strategic Finance Director, will identify and execute on ways to catalyse investment into the space sector and high-potential UK space companies. This is a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of the space and finance worlds and materially influence the future of the UK economy.

This is a new role created at the Catapult to address a critical market need and requires an ability to develop a new blueprint rather than follow an existing one. It requires financial astuteness, commercial acumen, and an understanding of the broader investment landscape. Your working style will be one of moving fast and iterating with a bias to action even in the face of uncertainty. The role needs an appetite for active problem solving with a relentless focus on outcomes rather than perfecting process. If you are a team player with exceptional integrity and a hunger to take on feedback and improve, this will be a hugely fulfilling role. Prior experience in the space sector and/or direct investment roles are desirable but not essential.

Key Responsibilities:
**As the Space Investment Lead, you will**:

- ** Creatively explore and shape **new ways of increasing the flow of capital into the space sector by orders of magnitude and make the UK a centre for global space finance.
- ** Develop our investor network** by building direct relationships with a broad range of institutional investors and introduce them to space investment themes.
- ** Communicate and educate** by developing content across multiple channels (written, events, webinars, etc) to raise awareness of space as an investment opportunity and, subsequently, to get new investors to a level of understanding at which they can confidently deploy capital.
- ** Enhance the Catapult’s investor service proposition** by working with other Catapult teams to develop a suite of investment-oriented services such as technical and commercial due diligence (particularly for generalist investors).
- ** Design investment roadmaps for Catapult IP** - collaborate with Catapult teams to develop our technology and IP into investable propositions with well-crafted investment and commercial roadmaps.
- ** Raise awareness and understanding **of current investment topics and issues within the Catapult at a level pitched at non-specialists.

**You will also be involved in**:

- Developing the strategy and multi-year roadmap with milestones for our investment ambitions.
- Collaborating across the Catapult to find ways to use investment more generally to accelerate progress across the diverse range of our space projects and activities.
- Working with UKSA and other Catapults in the Catapult Network on a range of novel investment initiatives impacting multiple high growth, high potential industries including space.
- Building out the investment team as we broaden the scope of our activities and maximise our impact over the coming months and years.

**We expect that you would have the following demonstrable knowledge, skills, and experience**:
**_ Essential_**
- Outstanding commercial acumen coupled with a natural ability to prioritise those activities that actually ‘move the needle’.
- A broad knowledge of finance and investment topics (including different investor types) and a strong intuition for investor objectives, incentives, and mindset.
- Experience of working in or with large financial institutions (including asset managers and/or other institutional investors).
- The ability to identify

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