Space Programme Coordinator

STFC - The Science and Technology Facilities Council - Campus and Cluster Development Team

Location: Harwell

Salary: £36,650 gross per annum

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On: 18th September 2025

Closes: 2nd October 2025

Job Ref: 1447

Hours: Full-Time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working)

Contract: Fixed Term until April 2026

Location: Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK

About Us: Our Campus and Cluster Development Team works with key stakeholders and partners to drive the growth of clusters anchored to our campuses at Harwell and Sci-Tech Daresbury. We fully exploit the potential of these clusters in space, energy, health and life sciences, digital and quantum to tackle the major challenges of today and tomorrow, boost knowledge exchange, innovation and commercialisation in business, contributing to economic growth and prosperity.

The Role: You will work with colleagues across our Campuses and stakeholders across the UK to support important areas of Campus and Cluster development. The core focus of this role will help to build links between stakeholders and the world-leading ecosystem at Harwell, you will also support the delivery of key Space cluster development programmes and activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building relationships to deliver specific stakeholder engagement activities for our Clusters and Campuses.
• Drafting agendas, making and communicating plans, collating slide decks, distributing briefs and reports. Supporting the smooth delivery of visits, engagement activities and events.
• Working closely with the STFC Impact and Engagement team to support the creation of clear communication material.
• Coordinating teams that carry out active management of funded projects, for example, monitoring budgets; coordinating programme and monitoring officer meetings and communications; preparing papers, reports and briefings.
• Helping to administer and improve information management.
• Supporting colleagues in managing different project and programmes, such as the UK Connected and Autonomous Earth Connected Capability Network steering board, through preparing meetings, assisting during the meeting by taking minutes, and post-meeting monitoring of actions.
• Monitoring, evaluating and reporting on activities, project and programmes. Collating evidence on successes, outcomes and impacts and producing creative and impactful materials for a wider range of audiences.
• Providing support in other areas of Campus and Cluster management and supporting other members of the team, as and when required.

Person Specification:

• A relevant degree or equivalent experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including an excellent standard of written English, and the ability to write briefings, papers, reports and complex correspondence as required.
• IT skills, including word-processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, databases, collaboration tools, online communication platforms, and remote working tools.
• Ability to organise and prioritise your own workload, to be flexible and manage multiple competing projects, to plan work both in the short and long term and to oversee the effective meeting of deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact across and between different groups or organisations, and build strong working relationships with a variety of people from different professional backgrounds in industry and academia.
• An ability to work with ambiguity and deal with difficult situations by showing initiative and judgement in a constantly changing environment

Employee Benefits: Our Benefits include a flexible working scheme, defined benefit pension scheme and 30 days annual leave allowance plus 10.5 bank holiday/privilege days and several other benefits.

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