Space Skills Advisory Panel - Space Partnership, Bringing together industry, academia, and government to grow the UK space sector.

About

The UK Space Agency has asked the Space Partnership to facilitate the Space Skills Advisory Panel (SSAP) to bring industry, academia and government together to address skills opportunities and challenges for the UK space sector. As explained in the NSS In Action, the SSAP plays a crucial role in ensuring access to quality skills and training offers across the UK space sector. SSAP supports the development of future space workforce policy initiatives, ensuring coordinated action can be taken by government, academia and industry in resolving current and future skills gaps.

On behalf of the UK space sector, the Space Partnership Board will then agree how best to deliver the collective action required to address these gaps.

Purpose of the Space Skills Advisory Panel

The Space Skills Advisory Panel (SSAP) has been formed to:

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Represent the skills related opportunities and challenges across the UK space sector in an open and balanced way on behalf of the communities across the UK space sector.
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Identify the most appropriate collective action to address these opportunities and challenges. This collective action will be proposed to the Space Partnership Board on behalf of the SSAP by the Space Partnership Director.
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Support the delivery of the agreed collective action both directly and by building a wider consensus across the UK space sector to ensure delivery.
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Review the annual skills dashboard managed by the Space Partnership Director on behalf of the SSAP, contributing to the reporting for the dashboard as relevant.

Composition of the Space Skills Advisory Panel

With the SSAP Chair, there will be 20 members in total. The Space Partnership Director is not a member of the SSAP, but facilitator of the SSAP. 13 of the 20 SSAP members will be appointed by their stakeholder group: industry appoints 5 representatives; academia appoints 3 representatives; government appoints 3 representatives; Satellite Applications Catapult and UK Space Ecosystem each appoints 1 representative. The remaining 6 panel members will be appointed following an Expression of Interest (EOI) process facilitated by the Space Partnership Director.

LAUNCHED: Expression of Interest Process for Refreshed Space Skills Advisory Panel

If your organisation is involved in the UK space skills landscape and you would like to be part of the SSAP, we would welcome your application. The aim is to have a mix of organisations that can represent the whole of the UK space sector in a fair and balanced way.

Applications are welcome until 9:00am on Friday 28 November via the Satellite Applications Catapult’s careers platform. For more information on the role and application process, please see News.

This is a great opportunity for a driven individual in your organisation to represent your contribution to the UK skills landscape by actively participating in the SSAP. They will have the opportunity to network with other like-minded individuals across the UK space sector and contribute to the development of skills policy in the UK.