Satellite Applications Catapult
Partnerships and Policy Manager (PPM)
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Role: Partnerships and Policy Manager (PPM)
Reporting to: Head of Partnerships, Policy and Place
Base: Harwell (with UK travel)
Contract: Permanent / Full Time
Department: External Affairs
Please note, we may look to interview before the advert close date due to the urgency of the role. The advert will close if a suitable candidate is found before the deadline.
About The Satellite Applications Catapult
As one of Innovate UK’s network of nine Catapults, the work we do at the Satellite Applications Catapult (SAC) aligns with UK government priorities for economic growth. We support our best companies to accelerate the invention and adoption of space data and technology. We work closely with businesses to reduce and remove the technical, business development, commercial, financial, or regulatory challenges and barriers that can block their growth.
Our three missions, Resilient Earth, Autonomous and Connected Earth, and Beyond Earth, are high-impact areas where the UK has world-class expertise and align with the government’s priority space capability areas.
Role Purpose
The Partnerships and Policy Managers (PPMs) work as part of the Partnerships, Policy and Place (P3) team within the External Affairs department and collaboratively across the organisation to support mission and corporate objectives.
PPMs support SAC to build strategic partnerships with national and local stakeholders including businesses, researchers and universities, government, and end-users; advocate for and inform effective policy development; and drive local engagement, especially with the UK’s network of space clusters, local authorities and devolved governments.
Working closely with Mission Managers, PPMs provide expertise in stakeholder engagement and ecosystems, policy analysis, operating environment knowledge and place-based growth opportunities to enable delivery of mission outcomes and support growth across the UK space sector.
Key Responsibilities
Mission Support and Subject Matter Expertise: Provide expertise in stakeholder engagement, policy analysis and place-based growth advice, intelligence and recommendations to mission teams to shape and deliver mission-assigned stakeholder engagement and policy activities:
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop stakeholder intelligence, drive engagement and foster excellent stakeholder relationships with stakeholders in national and local government and regulators, industry and trade bodies, academia, clusters, across the ecosystem to support our missions and the Catapult to understand and tackle challenges and identify opportunities. Actively use CRM and related business systems to capture knowledge and intelligence to support organisational decision-making and enable joined-up delivery particularly with the Strategic Communications team.
- Ecosystem Policy Specialist: Maintain a solid understanding of the stakeholders, capabilities, policies and regulatory developments related to the relevant mission and associated parts of the UK space ecosystem, and use this intelligence to support SAC corporate and mission objectives to identify barriers and opportunities that enable growth. This includes undertaking relevant research which balances depth of knowledge and speed to produce briefings and other outputs to inform strategic decision-making and designing and delivering policy and regulatory advocacy campaigns relevant to the mission’s high potential businesses (HPBs).
- Advocacy: Engage stakeholders to shape policy and strategy in support of businesses in the sector and beyond, particularly to help missions to work with external stakeholders to lower barriers to business growth across the UK, for example UK policy on autonomous drone testing and use of earth observation data in nature financial disclosures policy. This will include being an active participant or convener of appropriate external advocacy and coordinating responses to consultations with the Strategic Communications team.
- Partnership Development: Provide ecosystem intelligence and connect industry and academic stakeholders to forge opportunities for collaborative research and development or commercial space enabled projects including working with SAC’s Business Development team on proposals.
- Teamwork: Work in a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with cross-functional matrix teams to deliver projects both within and outside of missions.
- Performance Tracking: Report progress against goals, milestones, key performance indicators and metrics to maintain momentum and ensure accountability. Evaluate campaigns effectiveness and apply lessons learnt for continual improvement.
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Essential Experience & Knowledge
- A good understanding of the relationship between government policy and regulation, innovation and economic growth in the UK space ecosystem including satellite communications (satcoms), earth observation, position, navigation and timing (PNT) and assured access to space/launch domains. Other relevant adjacent industries can be considered: defence, nuclear, aerospace, etc.
- Experience in building and managing relationships, working with, and influencing a variety of key industrial, academic and government organisations and stakeholders including local authorities, devolved governments, universities, research institutions, industry bodies, clusters, innovation agencies and technical experts and senior officials
- Experience of monitoring the relevant policy/ecosystem landscape and able to undertake qualitative and quantitative research and analysis of capabilities intelligence, policy and regulation to provide coherent summaries, recommendations or briefings to shape and deliver advocacy and public affairs campaigns.
- Experience in the identification, development and delivery of collaborations and projects with internal and external stakeholders to meet organisational objectives.
Competencies And Skills
- Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable developing content, representing organisational messaging to external parties and chairing multistakeholder meetings keeping them on track to meet pre-determined objectives.
- Problem Solving: Analytical mindset, able to synthesise ecosystem intelligence, policy insights and stakeholder to identify root cause of problems, anticipate risks and input into clear recommendations and actions to help shape and deliver solutions.
- Collaboration: Ability to identify and connect with appropriate partners and suppliers for revenue generating collaborative and commercial opportunities within the space sector and related disciplines.
- Strategic Thinking: Creates plans for the future by thinking holistically about the operating environment and works across the business to integrate multiple perspectives and stakeholder inputs to create a comprehensive view of the ecosystem considering alternative perspectives to shape strate
- Execution: Excellent planning, coordination and organisation skills including the ability to scope, support, coordinate and deliver activities in collaboration with internal and external partners. Skilled at tracking and reporting particularly via Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
- Personal Effectiveness: A high level of proactivity, individual drive and can-do attitude to deliver against goals.
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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.
We offer a hybrid policy which is designed around collaboration, one 'anchor' day per week working with your direct team and another flexible day per week to be spent collaborating or working with other colleagues.
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.
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