Corporate Planning Manager
UK Space Agency, Central, Caerdydd - Cardiff
Corporate Planning Manager
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UK Space Agency, Central, Caerdydd - Cardiff
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 2 days ago, 19 Dec | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 24c31d933d2c4e87aef6ba05c0e32d15
Full Job Description
- Ensuring that Agency is operating and performing well: setting public and ministerial-facing direction through an annual Corporate Plan, analysing progressing against the plan through Corporate Performance, and summarising success through the publication of the Annual Report & Accounts.
- Duties and tasks commensurate with being a manager of UK Space Agency.
- Deputising for the Head of Corporate Governance & Assurance.
- Task management of SEO level Corporate Planning & Performance Team. People Management Oversee support to planning by the SEO Corporate Planning and Performance Leads, working closely with their line manager, you will:
- Role model the behaviours in the Civil Service Leadership Statement and UK Space Agency 's values: deliver with integrity, inspire and support each other, and build a better future.
- Ensure the Leads have well-defined corporate planning and performance objectives, that are aligned with and delivered according to the Agency's business requirements.
- Ensure Leads meet the standards of performance required of the role and the grade expectations, helping their line manager to understand and highlight their achievements and development needs. Corporate Planning Set the direction for UK Space Agency, by setting, publish and update annually the Agency's corporate plan. You will:
- Work with the Agency's Strategy and Senior Leadership Teams to define the Agency's delivery aims and priorities for the Spending Review period.
- Consult teams across the Agency, to collect information about their proposed delivery plans and resource needs.
- Informed by UK Space Agency's long term strategy, ensure UK Space Agency's plan fully allocates resources to priorities, defines clear milestones and outcomes, and sets stretching success targets.
- Work with the Finance, Strategy and Portfolio Management Teams to help senior decision-makers to make choices about priorities and trade-offs, to ensure the plan is achievable and affordable.
- Secure Executive Committee and Departmental approval of the final Corporate Plan and produce a published version that communicates a clear vision and well-defined milestones, metrics and resource allocations.
- Engage upwards and outwards with stakeholders in DSIT to ensure alignment between the Corporate Plan and the National Space Strategy and DSIT direction. Power up our programmes and keep delivery on track, by maintaining our plan in-year. You will:
- Introduce and maintain a digital tool that helps staff to access their planning data throughout the year.
- Work with the Portfolio Management Team to ensure in-year changes to the plan are recorded to maintain a coherent record of Agency resources and activities.
- Provide routine advice to the Agency's Portfolio Management Team, to enable regular reporting about teams' progress to deliver their plans and manage their risks.
- Drive continuous improvements, to ensure the Agency's corporate planning tools and processes are efficient, effective and support staff wellbeing. Annual Report & Accounts
- Oversee the production of the annual report and accounts.
- Coordinate the provision of information from teams across the Agency to populate the annual report and accounts publication. We'll also expect you to show your potential to drive continuous improvements to the Agency's corporate planning and performance tools and processes, to deliver our work more efficiently and effectively and support staff wellbeing.
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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is an executive agency of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) and provides technical advice on the government's space strategy, supporting the UK space sector to deliver the government's vision. Space is a part of everyday life. Satellites underpin our national economy, from agriculture and banking to aviation and shipping, and support our national security. Space science provides critical data to understand and address global challenges such as climate change, while missions to explore our solar system unite nations and advance humanity's horizons. We support a thriving space sector in the UK, which generates an annual income of £16.5 billion and employs 47,000 people across the country. Through our portfolio of programmes and projects, we encourage the development of national space capabilities and are an early-stage investor in space research and development. We also promote the UK space sector's interests and achievements; make connections to join up industry and academia; and represent the UK in international space programmes. We have a powerful global voice, partnering with institutions across the world, including the European Space Agency.