Supercluster Coordination Lead

Accountability 1: Develop a framework for defining STEP programme requirements

• Identify and clearly articulate STEP’s priority needs across supply chain, skills, and research.
• Produce structured requirement sets to support Supercluster planning.
• Ensure regional strategies reflect STEP’s core priorities and maximize economic and community benefit.

Accountability 2: Manage relationships with Supercluster leads

• Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with Supercluster leaders and stakeholders.
• Act as an effective advocate for STEP within the Supercluster, and for the Supercluster within STEP.
• Enable open collaboration and ensure shared strategic alignment.

Accountability 3: Develop work packages that deliver strategic requirements

• Translate programme requirements into clear, actionable work packages.
• Shape purposeful workstreams across skills, supply chain, and R&D.
• Work in partnership with local authorities, industry, education providers, and academia to design and deliver regional programmes.

Accountability 4: Stakeholder reporting, governance, and assurance

• Establish reporting that clearly tracks progress, benefits, and impact.
• Contribute to key programme documentation, including delivery plans and risk registers.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and helping resolve issues through governance processes.

Accountability 5: Embody a leadership mindset

• Demonstrate leadership at all levels by role-modelling behaviours aligned with our culture, values, and mission.
• Help create a positive, inclusive, and supportive working environment where everyone can contribute and thrive.
• Actively contribute to a respectful, collaborative workplace that values diverse perspectives.
• Represent our organisation’s values and professionalism in all interactions.
• Encourage problem-solving, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose.
• Use sound judgement to support long-term programme outcomes.
• Lead by example, demonstrating integrity, professionalism, and ethical behaviour.

The above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of activities, and you may be asked to undertake other reasonable duties as required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification or experience equivalent to a degree in a scientific or engineering discipline.
• Experience and demonstrable ability to coordinate activities with multiple internal and external (sometimes very senior) partners.
• Experience in cross-partnership working – to enable the job holder to work effectively with key departments, who have a strong stake in this work – notably with the UKAEA comms and senior teams.
• Several years of experience of organizing and delivering STEM outreach activities, with an ability to grasp complex technical issues and deliver them clearly.
• Demonstrable experience as a confident public speaker and presenter to a wide variety of differing audiences, from primary schools to U3A groups, university students to community events, etc.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisation skills.
• Excellent influencing skills, with senior external and internal partners (e.g., local politicians, council officials, senior staff in STEP, outreach, and comms teams, and OAS).
• Understanding of the social value opportunities and requirements relevant to large infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
• Good team player.
• Flexibility – willingness to multi-task and help others.

Desirable

• Experience in evaluating science communication activities.
• Prior knowledge of monitoring and delivering social value or capturing programme benefits in a complicated environment.
• Good knowledge of UKAEA programmes, activities, mission, and strategic goals.

Additional Information

Professional Development and Collaboration: Active engagement with APM and other relevant external bodies as part of continuous development. Support the wider STEP PPM community via active contributions at STEP meetings and events, contributions at Community of Practice or conferences, etc.

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly women in STEM and individuals from British black and ethnic minority backgrounds, and individuals with disabilities. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

UKIFS is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukifs.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions. Whilst not required at this time, there is a possibility of an SC Clearance being required in the future. If a candidate already holds an SC clearance, that clearance can be transferred to UKIFS.

As we work towards our mission and goals, guided by our principles, STEP has six behaviours that are intended to capture the spirit of how we work:

• We champion safety.
• We all matter.
• We act as one.
• We embrace change.
• We are pioneering.
• We deliver.

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