Space Programme Coordinator

Taihan Cable & Solution; South Oxfordshire; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading research organization in Harwell, UK is seeking a Space Programme Coordinator for a fixed-term contract until April 2026. The role involves stakeholder engagement, project management, and the effective delivery of key development programmes. Candidates must have a relevant degree and excellent communication and IT skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams. This position offers competitive benefits including flexible working hours and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

30 days holiday

Flexible working hours

Defined salary pension scheme

Employee discounts

Excellent learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong communication capabilities to create reports and briefings.
• Proficient in using various IT tools for documentation and collaboration.
• Experience in managing multiple projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to coordinate visits and events.
• Monitor and manage funded projects and budgets.
• Support the development and administration of project management tools.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

IT skills

Interpersonal skills

Ability to organise and prioritise workload

Teamwork

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Word-processing software

Spreadsheets

Collaboration tools

Job description

Salary: £36,650 gross per annum

Hours: Full-Time

Contract Type: Fixed Term until Finance Year End April 2026

Location: Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK

Overview

Together at STFC, part of UKRI, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business support team explore the unknown and turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. Whether its sending probes into space or finding new ways to treat cancer, everyone here plays a vital role in making a positive difference to society. Come and discover how much you can achieve when youre surrounded by world-leading experts, encouraged to constantly learn, and empowered to explore your curiosity.

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

We are seeking an enthusiastic Space Programme Coordinator to join our well-established team. 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, and you will also support the delivery of key Space cluster development programmes and activities.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement and Management

• Building relationships with teams and relevant organisations across STFC and Harwell to deliver specific stakeholder engagement activities for our Clusters and Campuses, for example coordinating visits from national and international delegations of businesses, government and policy makers.
• Drafting agendas, making and communicating plans, collating slide decks, distributing briefs and reports, as appropriate, supporting the smooth delivery of visits, engagement activities and events.
• Working closely with the STFC Impact and Engagement team and other teams at Harwell to support the creation of clear communication material, for example highlighting the impact of projects, programmes and visits via social media and internal newsletters.

Programme Delivery

• Coordinating teams, both internal and external, 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 for the team, for example contributing to the development of project management tools and templates and maintaining the SharePoint site used for storage of key documents, project plans, and reports.
• Supporting colleagues in managing different project and programmes, such as the UK Connected and Autonomous Earth Connected Capability Network steering board, through preparing meetings (drafting agendas, collating and distributing papers, creating slide decks), 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
• A willingness to travel and work away from the office and/or outside normal working hours on occasion.

Employee Benefits

• We are offering a 9 month FTC position with a whole host of benefits including:
• 30 days holiday (in addition to 10.5 bank holidays and privilege days).
• Flexible working hours.
• An excellent defined salary pension scheme.
• Employee shopping/travel discounts.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.
• We are committed to sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are invested in creating an environment that is welcoming and supportive of all, to help us achieve the highest possible standards in our work and organisation together. In this regard, we encourage applications from under-represented groups.
• We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. Whatever our role, we have the freedom to explore, learn and connect, as part of a community that loves to share knowledge and support one another.
• As one of Europes largest research organisations, this is a place where theres always something new to learn about the world around us, about your career, but most of all, about yourself.