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Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

On behalf of the European Space Agency, we are looking for a highly skilled Space Transportation Scenarios Specialist to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

What is expected from you:

• Support necessary STEEPLE analysis that needs to be carried out to understand different environments impacting the space sector.

• Support necessary analysis of the future space transportation system that extracts driving forces, critical uncertainties and predetermined elements.

• Support necessary analysis that surfaces relevant insights through internal consultation, external engagement, expert consultation and any other analysis that needs to be performed.

• Support the design and organization of workshops and events necessary to carry out this work.

• Support the inductive and deductive approaches necessary to construct the scenarios and extract key messages for a range or stakeholders.

• Support the collaborative working with the technical programme team, by integrating with them where necessary in order to ensure the parallel and coordinated development of commercialisation workstreams alongside technical workstreams.

• Support the organization of, and actively participate in meetings with internal and external stakeholders as necessary.

• Support and facilitate working with industrial partners to carry out detailed analysis impacting their business plans and the commercial success of their sector.

• Support and facilitate working with a range of institutional partners at European and national levels to identify and design critical elements of the commercial operating model, consisting of regulatory, legal, political elements.

• Maintain detailed documentation to retain insights and messages.

• Ensure confidentiality of all information as directed by the CIC-SU Division Head and in accordance with ESA policies.

• Support the ESA Technical Responsible in the design and delivery of all necessary work needed to deliver this work package.

What you offer:

• Masters degree in engineering or Business Administration;

• At least 10 years of working experience, with at least 3 years in a space field;

• Must have more than 5 years of policy experience, ideally at a senior government level;

• Must be able to demonstrate experience of developing, managing, and overseeing complex programmes and projects with public and private stakeholders with value exceeding >50 MEUR;

• Must be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the challenges related to Space commercialisation in Europe and the mission of the European Space Agency;

• Fluent in English;

• Experience in relevant areas such as commercialisation, technology transfer, application, and/or technology assessment and intellectual property is a distinct advantage;

• Must have experience in management teams, spread across multiple locations

• Familiarity with the services provided by ESA is an asset;

• Experience in foresight studies/projects is an asset;

• Working with international partners is an asset

What we offer

• A competitive salary

• 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;

• Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)

• Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours

• Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;

• A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;

• A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);

• Travel allowance;

• Extensive relocation package

Where:

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency's offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don't expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC (https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC)

When

Deadline to apply: 17/01/2025

Please note that interviews will be held either via skype, webex, other digital platforms or onsite in ESTEC