Academic Director, North East Space Skills and Technology Centre (NESST)

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Academic Director, North East Space Skills and Technology Centre (NESST)

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Northumbria University

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Job Description:ABOUT THE ROLEThe North East Space Skills and Technology Centre (NESST) will house world-leading space experts and unite industry with academia and aims to transform the UK space economy. Northumbria University is creating this £50 million Centre after major funding awards were confirmed from the UK Space Agency and Lockheed Martin Space UK. Located in the heart of Northumbria University’s Newcastle city campus, NESST will be a new national space asset that brings together industry and academia to collaborate on internationally significant space research and technological developments, as well as providing specialist education and training to ensure the UK space sector has the highly-skilled workforce it needs in the future. NESST is expected to directly support the creation of over 350 jobs into the North East economy and inject over £260 million over the next 30 years, playing a critical role in the government’s levelling-up agenda and immediately becoming a catalyst for the wider development of the UK space sector in the North East region.Working with a team of world-leading space academics, this new role will provide strategic leadership and operational delivery to create a world-leading space skills, research and technology Centre. This will involve leading the strategic and operational performance, delivery and innovation of the Centre including all people, finance, and service delivery plans. You can find out more about our space academics on our webpages.Further information is available in the .ABOUT YOUTo lead this significant change, challenge and opportunity, we are seeking to appoint an ambitious Academic Director. As a highly credible leading authority in the space sector with widespread recognition, you will have held high-profile roles and will bring demonstrable commercially focused strategic experience from working in large, complex, and dynamic organisations.You will be highly skilled in influencing, advocacy, negotiating and building successful relationships with the space industry and other key partners and a track record of providing vision and leadership to enable delivery.This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the leadership of a bold, progressive, and ambitious university that delivers real-world impact and to contribute significantly to its future position at a time of significant change in Higher Education. If you have the right experience, skills and track record of success and share Northumbria’s drive and ambition, we would be delighted to hear from you.Further information is available in the .For informal questions or enquiries please contact Professor John Woodward, Executive lead for NESST at or Professor James McLaughlin (Head of the Solar and Space Physics research group) at .To apply for this vacancy please click ‘Apply Now’. Your application should include a covering letter (up to four A4 pages) and a CV which clearly sets out your extensive experience and achievements as a leading authority in the space sector, and includes your successes influencing, negotiating and building successful relationships with the space industry and other key partners; your track record of providing vision and leadership to enable delivery; developing and delivering large and complex strategic business cases; and experience of winning new business.Closing date for applications is 28th October, 2024.ABOUT USNorthumbria University is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all. We change lives regionally, nationally, and internationally through education and research, tackling the global challenges of our age to transform society and the economy. Find out why we were named Times Higher Education’s in 2022 and in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 in the UK for this measure.One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from more than 140 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience. Discover more .Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development andOur Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence; Innovation; Inclusivity; Collaboration; and Ambition.Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.Our Values and Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what’s important to us.Please visit page to find out more.We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include our City and Coach Lane Campuses in Newcastle upon Tyne and our London campus.Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.We are committed to keeping your data safe so it’s important for you to know how we use any personal data you give us. For more detailed information, access our .

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Newcastle

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Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:57:39 GMT

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