Projects

Connect Harwell Programme

Harwell Campus

—Business Development

—Event Planning

—Strategic Partnerships

Since 2016, Spacetime Development has managed the Connect Harwell Programme on behalf of Harwell Campus. Connect Harwell consists of networking events, workshops, and signposting for campus organisations. Events and workshops take place every month and have been attended by over 1100 people from both on and off-campus.

Social Media & Retail Management

Space Store

—Business Development

—Event Planning

—Strategic Partnerships

Space Store is an experiential retail start-up which aspires to be the Space sector’s retailer. Spacetime Development provides Space Store with business development support by providing social media and digital marketing services. Spacetime Development supports Space Store’s strategic partnership development with key Space industry players at Harwell Campus and abroad.

Lead Generation and Business Capture Support

Bryce Space & Technology

—Business Development

—Event Planning

—Strategic Partnerships

Bryce Space & Technology is an inward investor from the United States establishing its UK presence in early 2018. Since 2017, Spacetime Development has provided lead generation and business capture support for Bryce.

RASOR: Real-time Accessible Space Operational Reel

Space Store

—Business Development

—Event Planning

—Strategic Partnerships

Spacetime is developing a new streaming service for space imagery, called RASOR. RASOR will provide amazing live and replays of current imagery from across our Universe. Images, videos and visualisations will be accessible online and in physical locations, including at Schools & Universities, Space Organisations and Space Stores. The imagery will be presented through themed programmes: Launches, Earth, Planets, The Sun, Astronomy, and the International Space Station, with the content being tailored to each RASOR user and enhanced with easy-to-understand titles, captions, and timestamps. For educators, RASOR will include ready-to-go lesson plans, activities and competitions for both STEM and non-STEM subject areas. Read more about RASOR at https://business.esa.int/projects/rasor.

Team

Stephen Ringler

Managing Director

Stephen has over 20 years of experience working in the Space sector as a Pointing Precision Engineer, Programmatic Analyst, and Business Developer. With his training that began at UCLA and his vast experience and network in the Space community, his aim with Spacetime Development is to provide top-notch business development support and engineering services to high-tech companies. Stephen enjoys exploring castles and playing board games, jazz piano and drums. He lives in Reading, UK with his wife and son.

Abigail Richings

Sponsorship & Events Manager

Abi works across a range of projects and events for Spacetime Development, including for the prestigious Harwell Science and Innovation Campus bringing together key stakeholders through an events and sponsorship programme to foster collaborations and working relationships, and for Space Store, Didcot, through bespoke, interactive STEM activities aimed at challenging children’s perceptions and broadening horizons to support the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Helen Neal

Events Coordinator

Helen has over 10 years of events experience ranging from networking lunches to vast scale festivals for Harley-Davidson owners. Helen joined the Spacetime team in February 2019 and is enjoying every moment! The combination of assisting develop the events programme and supporting the facilitation of educational activities at Space Store alongside managing the Connect Harwell Nxt Gen programme keeps her inspired and very busy. In her spare time, Helen juggles her two young children, a spirited bearded collie dog and her husband!

Lakshya Sethi

Project Engineer

Lakshya works as the Project Engineer and Assistant PM on RASOR, heading into its demonstration phase with ESA. He supports Space Store’s experiences and their space partnership programme. After completing his BEng in Aerospace Engineering, Lakshya successfully applied to Spacetime through the UKSA Spinternship Summer 2019 programme, coming on board full time after the internship!

Joshua Baylis

Business Administrator

A Space enthusiast from a young age, Josh holds a Physics and Astronomy degree from Durham. He has since held four years' experience working in stakeholder engagement within a research and innovation environment. Josh now supports Spacetime Development and its clients by ensuring the smooth running of various processes, from organising the Managing Director's schedule to accounting and event planning support.

Luke Ward

Head of User Experience

Alexander Barrett

Application Development Intern

Akshay Sethi

Graphic Design Intern

Akshay is completing his summer internship as a Graphic Design Intern after his first year in BA Architecture at the University of Westminster. He focuses on graphic design for Spacetime and Space Store’s exciting social media campaigns – including promotional videos, flyers, live events, and much more! Akshay is using his experience and skills from his degree to provide support for the design of Space Store's upcoming flagship store.

Join Us

We're always looking for talented and passionate people to join our team. Available positions are listed below, please send us your CV with a covering email. We can't wait to hear from you.

Website & Social Media Coordinator

Berkshire, Oxfordshire, or Buckinghamshire-based. Primarily work-from-home with occasional need to travel to Harwell or Didcot in Oxfordshire.

Responsible to: Managing Director, Spacetime Development

Working Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Contract: 3 month probation and 1 month notice

Salary: Dependent on experience

Holiday: 28 days per annum, plus statutory holidays

Equal Opportunities: Spacetime Development strives to be an equal opportunities employer and commitment to this process will be expected

About Us

Spacetime Development is an independent consultancy which supports high-tech sectors with an emphasis on the space and satellite industry. Spacetime’s services are business development, event planning, user experience and engineering support.

The Role

Reporting to the Managing Director, the Website & Social Media Coordinator will be responsible for ground-up website development, analytics reporting and continual improvement of websites and commerce sites for the company and its clients. The post-holder will also manage all social media platforms and develop the social media networks of the company and its clients. The ideal candidate will be a highly organised “people person,” with a ‘can do’ attitude.

Main Responsibilities and Activities

The successful candidate will:

Develop a website and database backend from the ground up for the RASOR space imagery project
Maintain, operate and improve websites for the company and its clients
Keep the social media channels for the company and its clients updated, specifically Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn
Plan and schedule social media content and posts
Maintain key security practices for website and social media platforms to ensure low risk of bad actors affecting the website or social media channels
Research, create and upload relevant contents e.g. graphics, videos, photos, audio, albums and stories
Identify key influencers and organisations to interact with on social media
Reply in a timely manner to comments and messages on all social media, website, and digital channels and organise backup cover for times when unavailable
Ensure the removal of any inappropriate comments from all digital channels
Encourage team members, followers, customers and key stakeholders to comment on social media posts and share them with others
Occasionally attend events for the company and its clients to provide digital coverage
Liaise with staff and other volunteers to ensure consistency in messaging
Provide weekly reports on online activity and provide recommendations for improvement

About You

Interest in developing a digital marketing career with a keen focus on social media and website development and maintenance
Skills in website development and editing via WordPress backend Content Management System and experience in eCommerce platforms, ideally WooCommerce
Extensive presence on social media channels including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn and demonstrable management of that presence
Good organisational, time-management and planning skills with the ability to multi-task, work under pressure and use own initiative
Ability to exercise effective judgement, discretion, sensitivity and creativity to changing needs and situations
Enthusiastic team player with the ability to work with cross-organisational teams
Self-motivated with a high energy level
Committed, hardworking, passionate and a creative thinker
High level oral and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail
Ability to work independently

Apply

If you are up for the challenge, please submit your CV and a cover letter by email to the Managing Director’s Business Administrator, Joshua Baylis, at joshua.baylis@spacetimedevelopment.com. Your cover letter should address the following questions:

What excites you about space?
What have you done to build a social media presence, personally, for your own business, or for other people’s business? Please supply relevant links or a sample.
What experience do you have in building and operating websites? Please supply relevant links or a sample.

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