Senior Analyst - Space - Defence, Security and Justice

RAND is a not-for-profit research institute with over 30 years of experience in conducting policy research for governments, international organisations, research councils, charitable foundations, and other organisations. We believe that good research helps shape sound answers to pressing societal challenges, ultimately making communities safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous in the future. RAND Europe has offices in Cambridge, Brussels and The Hague and employs approximately 200 staff.

We wish to recruit an experienced Senior Analyst in Space Security within our Defence, Security and Justice (DSJ) research group, to contribute to the growth of the RAND Europe Space Hub (RESH). The focus of this role is to help facilitate our growing portfolio of space-related research for governmental clients, with a particular focus on space security, space programmatic and portfolio evaluations, and wider space policy, governance, regulatory or capability issues.

The DSJ research group conducts a wide-ranging portfolio of research for a diverse client base in the UK, Europe and beyond. Our clients include UK government departments and agencies (e.g. Ministry of Defence, Home Office, FCDO, DSIT, UK Space Agency), other national governments (e.g. Dutch), EU institutions (e.g. European Commission, EDA, European Parliament), and international defence and security organisations (e.g. NATO, United Nations), and various third sector a