Traineeship Opportunity for “Young Graduate Trainees” Reference Specialist Area Duty Station Closing Date ESA/YG-ECSAT(2014)003 Integrated Applications: Market & Economic Analysis ECSAT 14 December 2014 Overview of the Division’s mission The objective of the Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme can be summarised as “supporting the development of sustainable space-based services”. Specifically, IAP aims to engage: • • • A wider range of users, especially those unaware of the benefits that space technologies can bring, e.g. to new sectors of major economic importance such as renewable energy, autonomous vehicles or smart cities; A wider combination of systems, integrating several space and terrestrial tool, techniques and technologies to create end-to-end solutions; and A wider range of actors from across the service and value chain, who are collectively able to create, implement and operate new services and applications that will be economically sustainable by end users in both public and private sectors. Overview of the field of activity proposed The Young Graduate Trainee (YGT) will work in the Applications & Services Business Office (ABO) of the Integrated and Telecom-related Applications Department. A major aim of the ABO is to identify and develop new market opportunities for space-based systems, along with new ways of doing business to realise those opportunities. This involves defining user needs and developing relationships with players in the target sectors. It further involves analysing, building and critiquing business cases for the development of new services, based upon integrated applications that combine both space and non-space systems. Increasingly, the ABO team are conducting socio-economic impact analyses of projects and companies that have been cofunded by the IAP programme; identifying the business support needs of these companies; and helping to connect them to the necessary business support services . This includes investment readiness and access to finance. The following are the main activities in which the Trainee will be involved: • • • • • Qualitative and quantitative market research and analysis of potential target sectors for integrated applications and of the opportunities and priorities within individual ESA Member States; Identification and analysis of commercial, technical, regulatory or operational requirements within target sectors; Supporting the economic and cost benefit analysis of proposed applications and services; Supporting the development of new partnership agreements for integrated applications activities with commercial and institutional entities; Supporting the preparation of contact lists, interviews, meetings, focus groups, questionnaires and workshops to assist with any of the above. It is anticipated that the Trainee will also provide analytical inputs as contributions to the development of statements of work for open competitions in new sectors of opportunity. Educational and other requirements HFC-HO/TO for Young Graduate Trainees/issue 1 01/07/2014 Applicants should have just completed, or be in their final year of a University course at Masters Level (or equivalent) in a discipline that includes one or more of economic, financial, marketing or business studies. Ideally this will be combined with engineering or science. Knowledge of space or terrestrially based services in telecommunications, navigation or earth observation, or in particular market sectors such as renewable energy, transport or smart cities is considered as a useful asset. Applicants should have good interpersonal and communication skills and should be able to work in a multi-cultural environment, both independently and as part of a team. They should have strong analytical skills and be selfmotivated. Systematic work, creativity and an innovative attitude are also considered valuable for this traineeship opportunity. Applicants must be fluent in English and/or French, the working languages of the Agency. A very good proficiency in English is required. How can I apply? Please fill in the online application form. Please note that only one application may be submitted for the YGT Scheme. The YGT Scheme is open to recently qualified young men and women who are nationals of one of the following states: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, or Canada as a Cooperating State, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and Slovenia as European Cooperating States (ECS).