International Strategy and Engagement Manager

This is an exciting new role that will help grow the ATI's presence globally, identifying and building strategic partnerships with key overseas partners. This will involve understanding evolving market positions and the technologies critical to the decarbonisation of flight. Supporting delivery of the ATI Engagement Strategy and International Plan, you will work within the External Relations team and regularly across ATI teams to shape and facilitate international policy with UK Government and international bodies. Key objectives and responsibilities:

• Support the development and delivery of the ATI international strategy. Take ownership of identified relationships and deliverables, working across the ATI to deliver them.
• Produce insightful market analysis to help shape the ATI international plan. Conduct analysis of national policies, international technology programmes, overseas funding programmes and stakeholder strategies within identified markets to shape ATI engagement and future projects.
• Build and grow relationships with key stakeholders in nations that support the ATI's ambitions to decarbonise the aerospace sector.
• Run the ATIs International Advisory Group. Provide effective administration including organising meetings and shaping agenda topics. Drive strategic direction of the group.
• Develop and plan a series of activities with key stakeholders aligned with furthering the ATI Business Plan.
• Support the ATI's role on international committees, providing briefings, presenting and ensuring ATI is able to provide independence advice and value into the discussion.
• Provide ATI thought leadership content and messaging designed to inform and enable action. Work with the wider team to determine the appropriate messaging format.
This role reports into the ATI Senior Manager, International Relations but works closely with other ATI Teams, Innovate UK and UK Government. The Candidate The candidate will be passionate about the decarbonisation of flight and excited by the opportunity to help influence and grow the UK's role on the global stage. Above all you will be proactive and willing to engage in a variety of tasks.


• Strategically minded: Able to structure insights and evidence into compelling narrative for briefings.
• Analytical: Able to analyse data effectively to create digestible information for decision making.
• Communicator: Ability to build trusted relationships with multiple stakeholders and maintain them while delivering strong messages. Present outputs with clarity and credibility through written and verbal presentations.
• Market knowledge: Understanding of UK and international policy with sense of how to use data to influence decision making.
• Creative: Able to innovate and to instigate and assess new ideas.
• Organised: Able to coordinate and drive people to a common goal to meet deadlines required.
Competencies and Behaviours
• Understanding of civil aviation market and innovation ecosystem.
• Self-starter and natural collaborator, with strong motivation and team spirit.
• Excellent relationship building skills with an ability to influence stakeholders.
• Analytical mind, able to condense complicated information into concise and logical arguments.
• Ability to deal with high levels of ambiguity.
• Agility in responding to new needs and issues, bringing a positive 'can do' attitude.
• Ability to engage with a diverse range of people including overseas officials, technology managers, corporate executives, and government officials.
• Passionate about working with stakeholders across the sector to drive meaningful change in aerospace and support UK aerospace sector growth.
  
  The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) is an independent company established as a collaboration between Government and Industry to set the UK's aerospace technology strategy and fund a wide variety of transformative research and technology projects, securing the UK's global leadership in aerospace technology.
The ATI's objective is to enable aviation to reduce its environmental impact through providing thought leadership on all aspects on the future of flight and through funding research projects that secure jobs, maintain skills, and deliver economic benefits across the UK. A key focus for the ATI is the development of opportunities that take forward the recommendations from its FlyZero project, an intensive independent research study investigating zero-carbon emission commercial flight. Having been established 10 years, the ATI continues evolving with ambitious plans to deliver on its mission of transforming aerospace through technology and innovation. The UK aerospace sector is going through a major change cycle to meet its sustainability responsibilities, which entails substantial technology investment and development., The ATI must continue to innovate how it delivers and take a leading role in the development of technologies to meet zero emission targets for aviation. The ATI believes that equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace are essential to achieving these ambitious objectives.


• Competitive salary
• Attractive pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Life Assurance
• Professional development training
• Paid membership to one professional body per year
• Hybrid working, including core hours
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and additional Christmas leave
• Company Maternity & Paternity Pay
• 30 days Company Sick Pay