Senior Analyst - Space - Defence, Security and Justice

RAND is a not-for-profit research institute with over 30 years of experience in conducting policy research for governments, international organisations, research councils, charitable foundations, and other organisations. We believe that good research helps shape sound answers to pressing societal challenges, ultimately making communities safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous in the future. RAND Europe has offices in Cambridge, Brussels and The Hague and employs approximately 200 staff. We wish to recruit an experienced Senior Analyst in Space Security within our Defence, Security and Justice (DSJ) research group, to contribute to the growth of the RAND Europe Space Hub (RESH) . The focus of this role is to help facilitate our growing portfolio of space-related research for governmental clients, with a particular focus on space security, space programmatic and portfolio evaluations, and wider space policy, governance, regulatory or capability issues. The DSJ research group conducts a wide-ranging portfolio of research for a diverse client base in the UK, Europe and beyond. Our clients include UK government departments and agencies (e.g. Ministry of Defence, Home Office, FCDO, DSIT, UK Space Agency), other national governments (e.g. Dutch), EU institutions (e.g. European Commission, EDA, European Parliament), and international defence and security organisations (e.g. NATO, United Nations), and various third sector and humanitarian organisations. Our work covers a broad range of public policy issues across: Defence (defence strategy, policy, capability, and acquisition; defence economics; defence workforce and Armed Forces community) Security (terrorism; counter-violent extremism; human security; border security; energy security; resilience and cyber) Criminal Justice (rehabilitation and preventing crime; organised crime; law enforcement cooperation; drugs and illicit markets) DSJ researchers also participate in the RAND Europe Space Hub (RESH) , a cross-RAND centre of excellence for space-related research, analysis and wargaming. This cross-cutting hub involves ~15 RAND staff and draws both on the defence and security-focused space expertise and the civil and commercial space expertise of its’ members. The successful applicant will contribute to business development and project delivery for our portfolio of space research. We are looking for an individual with experience of winning, designing and delivering space-related projects for national governments and militaries in the UK and Europe and/or for international organisations (e.g. EU, ESA, NATO). In particular, experience working with ESA and/or evaluation expertise is a plus. We are looking for an individual with a keen interest and understanding of civil and defence space issues; space strategy, policy, governance and regulatory issues more broadly, both at the national and international level; and trends in space capabilities, technologies and industry. Ideally,…