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Benefits errors trigger 5,000 refunds for ESA claimants
2018-10-17 16:59:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Errors mean 180,000 people on sickness benefits will now receive backdated payments.
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Head of the ESA Corporate Physical Security Unit
2018-07-30 14:27:11| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Vacancy in the Directorate of Internal Services. ESA is an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. Applications from women are encouraged. Post Head of the ESA Corporate Physical Security Unit This post is classified A2A4 on the Coordinated Organisations salary scale. Location ECSAT, Harwell, United Kingdom Description The postholder will be responsible for ensuring a consistent, corporate approach to ESAs physical security management and will provide security advice to the Head of the Facility Management Department, who as appropriate may issue security instructions to ensure compliance with ESA policy and procedures. The postholder will maintain an indepth and uptodate overview of the overall physical security situation in so far as it may impact ESA operations or the security of ESA staff. This includes considering potential threats at ESA establishments, centres and outstations and to staff on mission. Duties The postholder will have the following specific responsibilities providing expert advice to decisionmakers on all physical security matters under the responsibility of the Estates Facilities Management Department, providing input concerning the appropriate ESA vigilance level and other security measures to ensure they are commensurate with the prevailing security situation, globally and locally briefing the ESA Central Crisis Management Team as required when it meets to formulate responses to crises having a security component acting as senior security adviser to the ESA Corporate Physical Security Contract technical officer, ensuring full compliance with the statement of work at both corporate and local levels, monitoring agreed levels of services delivered via site managers, health safetysecurity officers and the contractors country managers managing ESAs travel security contract, acting as its technical officer and ensuring consistent implementation and service delivery, liaising with the Head of the ESA Travel Videoconferencing Unit concerning travel security matters and ensuring that all ESA mission travellers are informed of security and personalsafety issues pertaining to their destinations maintaining a permanent interface with the ESA Security Office to ensure timely implementation of physical security policy and responses to audit observations ensuring a consistent and timely response to audits and inspections carried out by that Office, providing specific advice to ensure proper allocation of resources in the physical security domain maintaining a permanent assessment of ESA establishment and centre resources manpower, tools, standard operating procedures to enable full compliance with ESA physical security policies and procedures overseeing ESAs corporate physical security infrastructure to ensure it remains fit for purpose and reflects developments within the sector, in particular considering issues of interoperability, maintenance and management through the equipment lifecycle liaising with and supporting FM site managers and health safetysecurity officers, ensuring close coordination with FM departmental managers for crisis management and business continuity performing proactive and regular expert analysis of physical security incidents to ensure early identification of trends or patterns, providing expert advice as part of a managed response liaising with the prime ESA dutyholders for matters concerning FM departmental information security managing and developing physical security awareness training programmes, providing advice from a corporate perspective when required. Technical competencies Stateoftheart knowledge in area of responsibility at required level Knowledge understanding of the Agencys core business Ability to rapidly assimilate and synthesise complex information Ability to brief senior decision makers under crisis conditions Ability to act calmly under pressure Leadership competencies Leading change Fostering cooperation effective teamworking Driving performance Behavioural competencies Continuous Learning Results Orientation Teamwork Problem Solving Planning Organisation Customer Focus Relationship Management Education Applicants for this post should have a Masters degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant domain. Additional requirements Proven experience in the area of security is required. In addition candidates should have the ability to organise their activities and motivate the work environment strong leadership capabilities, with proven relationshipmanagement and communication skills the ability to drive team performance, developing its members by encouraging lifelong learning, delegating responsibility, giving regular and constructive feedback strong problemsolving skills to deal with daytoday operational challenges, plus demonstrated planning and organisational skills a strong results orientation and ability to set priorities and present practical solutions orally and in writing the ability to manage challenging situations proactively and constructively and to be customer focused. Peoplemanagement experience is an asset, as is international experience, i.e. outside the candidates home country, and experience in various functional areas relevant to ESAs activities. Other information For behavioural competencies expected from ESA staff in general, please refer to the ESA Competency Framework. The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another Member State language would be an asset. The Agency may require applicants to undergo selection tests. The closing date for applications is 6 September 2018. If you require support with your application due to a disability, please email contact.human.resourcesesa.int. Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Canada and Slovenia. According to the ESA Convention the recruitment of staff must take into account an adequate distribution of posts among nationals of the ESA Member States. When shortlisting for an interview, priority will first be given to internal candidates and secondly to external candidates from underrepresented Member States. see Nationality Targets In accordance with the European Space Agencys security procedures and as part of the selection process, successful candidates will be required to undergo basic screening before appointment. Recruitment will normally be at the first grade in the band A2 however, if the candidate selected has little or no experience, the position may be filled at A1 level. Apply HERE
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Head of the ESA Security Office
2018-07-13 13:26:12| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Vacancy in the Director Generals Services. ESA is an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. Applications from women are encouraged. Post Head of the ESA Security Office This post is classified A5 on the Coordinated Organisations salary scale. Location ESRIN, Frascati, Italy Description Head of the ESA Security Office in the Inspector General Office, Director Generals Services. Reporting directly to the Inspector General, the postholder is responsible for all aspects of the Agencys activities related to security of data, people and resources. To this end, the postholder has direct access to the Director General in the event of a major issue arising. Duties Advising the Inspector General on security matters Coordination, supervision and control of implementation of all security measures applicable to personnel, documents, physical infrastructure, communications information systems CIS at ESA, classified and unclassified, for both corporate general purpose and projectspecific infrastructure Conducting associated threatrisk assessments Being the security accreditation authority SAA for ESAs security systems and personnel Authorising ESA staff to access classified information following confirmation from NSADSA of an individuals Personnel Security Clearance Auditing correct implementation of the Security Regulations and relevant policies Production and maintenance of the Security Master Plan and corresponding action plan Monitoring local security incident responses, liaising with national authorities, initiating actions at ESA level whenever necessary Conducting a training and awareness programme on security matters Production and retention of security records and certificates, in line with relevant national requirements Acting as custodian for all approved Programme Security Instructions PSI, together with their classification guide, ensuring required updating of their annexes Preparing the annual inspection programme for ESA and inspections of third states and international organisations to be submitted to the ESA Security Committee Carrying out the annual inspection programme for ESA and inspections of third states and international organisations as approved by Council Submitting reports of annual inspections for ESA and inspections of third states and international organisations to the Security Committee Ensuring Secretariat and Executive support to the Security Committee Acting as TEMPEST authority for ESA Conducting at the Inspector Generals request investigations into any breach of security andor compromising of classified information which, on prima facie evidence, has occurred at ESA, including its IT systems Managing security agreements between ESA and other organisations or third states, particularly those with the EU Managing relations with the ESA constituency and in particular the provision of security services to Programme Directorates. Technical competencies Knowledge of the ESA institutional framework, policies andor programmes technology, science, launchers, manned space andor applications Knowledge of the European and international space sector institutional, commercial andor industrial Experience of managing security processes Security auditing standards Security engineering, especially security monitoring Leadership competencies Fostering cooperation effective teamworking Leading change Strategic vision business context Behavioural competencies Responsible DecisionMaking Relationship Management Communication Ambassadorship Education Applicants should have a Masters degree or equivalent qualification in engineering andor management. Additional requirements Proven experience in the area of security. In addition, candidates should have the following understanding of ESAs functions, rules and policies relating to management of the different pillars of security strong leadership, ability to work effectively in a team under pressure and customer focus strong sense of diplomacy, ability to formulate judgement while applying measures with strictness, tact and discretion solid communication skills, ability to interface and network with people at all levels proven experience of leading, motivating and developing a team ability to provide strategic direction to individuals and teams within the Division and relate team objectives to the overall and evolving organisational goals and context the ability to drive performance and foster cooperation within and across teams throughout the organisation demonstrated excellent leadership, relationship management and communication skills, both oral and written a proven track record of representing the Agencys interests to external interfaces excellent cognitive, analytical, delegation, planning and organisational skills the ability to anticipate problems, solve complex issues and relate situations to their context the ability to reach solutionoriented, pragmatic and timely decisions of high standard and integrity as well as to support others team members, senior management, other stakeholders in this process. Previous experience of managing managers and multiple teams is an asset, as is international experience, i.e. outside the candidates home country, as well as experience in diverse functional areas relevant to ESAs activities. The appointment is subject to the applicant having, or obtaining, Personnel Security Clearance from hisher National Security Authority. Other Information For behavioural competencies expected from ESA staff in general, please refer to the ESA Competency Framework. The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another Member State language would be an asset. The Agency may require applicants to undergo selection tests. The closing date for applications is 24 August 2018. If you require support with your application due to a disability, please email contact.human.resourcesesa.int. Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Canada and Slovenia. According to the ESA Convention the recruitment of staff must take into account an adequate distribution of posts among nationals of the ESA Member States. When shortlisting for an interview, priority will first be given to internal candidates and secondly to external candidates from underrepresented Member States. see Nationality Targets In accordance with the European Space Agencys security procedures and as part of the selection process, successful candidates will be required to undergo basic screening before appointment. Apply HERE
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NASA, ESA Aim to Bring a Piece of Mars Back to Earth
2018-04-27 19:02:38| Extremetech
The first phase of the mission will kick off with the NASA 2020 Mars rover, but the return mission is still in the early planning stages. The post NASA, ESA Aim to Bring a Piece of Mars Back to Earth appeared first on ExtremeTech.
ESA Business Applications Officer
2018-03-29 14:26:18| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Summary An opportunity for a Space Industry Professional with experience of market development and business intelligence relevant to space based applications to work for Telespazio VEGA onsite at ECSAT. Fixed Term Contract from 1 June 2018 to 31 December 2019. Objective To support the Applications Business Innovation Service in stimulating a range of new applications that utilize and integrate different space assets, resulting in improved or new services for the citizens of Europe on a regional or national scale. Responsibilities Duties Duties will include but will not be limited to Assist in preparation of the ESA Business Applications BA Countries and Outreach strategy Identify User Communities and their Requirements Identify suitable Space capabilities Inform and educate potential Users Interface with dedicated user groups in accordance with the objectives of ESA Business Applications Promote the uptake of new Business Applications projects in identified ESA member states Undertake business intelligence analysis in market sectors and specific countries of relevance to TIA Assess the impact that technology trends e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, robotics and automation have in the market and the derived opportunities for spacebased business applications Undertake outreach activities for establishing contacts with user communities, industry fora, and relevant stakeholders 20 Short duration European missions 2 days per trip during the duration of this contract 3 Medium duration European missions to ESTEC 1 week per trip during the duration of this contract Qualifications Experience Masters degree or equivalent qualification in Physics, Engineering or EconomicBusiness studies Significant experience in market development and business intelligence, preferably applied to some of the market sectors of relevance to space based applications Sound knowledge of the overall space applications market, including the main space actors technology suppliers, satellite operators, service providers Familiarity with the underlying space technologies i.e. satellite communications, navigation and Earth Observation High standard of document drafting The following experience are desirable Knowledge of ESA and in particular of TIA space applications programmes Experience in managing space applications activities is desirable. Qualities Good analytical, strategic and problem solving skills Systematic work, creativity and an innovative attitude Excellent communication and presentation skills Willing to travel to ESA establishments andor other European locations Comfortable in an international working environment Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Be able to function as part of a team A proactive and flexible attitude will be required An ability to work independently and to establish good working relations Further Details All roles within Telespazio VEGA have a defined closing date, however if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed early. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Closing Date for applications is Friday 20th April 2018 Location of the position is ECSAT, Harwell, UK Benefits Competitive Package Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks.
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