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Jobs

Looking for an out of this world career?

Would you like to join the team at the National Space Centre? Below you will find any current job opportunities listed. If there is nothing listed, then we are afraid we are not currently recruiting.

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we receive a suitable number of high-quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date. 

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    Placements

    Please do not send unsolicited CVs and due to the nature of our organisation our policy is not to work with employment agencies.

    We do not accept general work experience placement requests. Currently we are only able to offer a limited number of selective placements for students from the following courses:

    • Travel & Tourism – Diploma, BTEC, HND, degree etc
    • Student Teachers – learning outside of the classroom module as a part of degree or PGCE.

     

    How To Apply For A Placement Information Sheet

Current Vacancies

The National Space Centre is a charity that gets people excited about space, helps students on their education pathway and nurtures talent. It does this through the operation of a science centre, associated education programmes for school and community groups and corporate events. It also runs the National Space Academy for 14-19 year old students and NSC Creative: an immersive storytelling studio.

The Charity is overseen by a Board of Trustees and has a subsidiary trading company to manage its non-charitable activities.  It turns over £10m pa and has 200 employees.  It receives no public funds towards its running costs and must cover them through earned income.  It raises funds to help support its exhibition development, education and community engagement work. The building is twenty five years old: fabric and plant replacement will be a regular aspect of its future

The Finance Director will be a senior manager who works alongside Trustees and Directors of the subsidiary trading company.

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The National Space Academy is an award-winning provider of education programmes, continuing professional development sessions (CPD) and careers events, designed to support schools’ curricula in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) using space as the inspirational context.  This ground-breaking initiative combines world class expertise in space science and climate science at leading universities and companies in the UK with a network of outstanding teachers to provide engaging and effective STEM interventions nationally and internationally.

The National Space Academy has received a grant to deliver a programme of free intensive and interactive activities within the second phase of the UK Space Agency’s Space to Learn programme. We will be adding to our team of outstanding science teachers, who are based across all the regions and nations of the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) to deliver masterclasses in our target schools. We are currently recruiting in Birmingham, Bristol/Bath and Brighton/Eastbourne regions.

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