Project Officer - Material Sciences

Project Officer - Material Sciences

ESF - European Science Foundation

Strasbourg, France

ESF Science Connect is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the support of excellent science through partnerships and support to scientific programmes. We operate in the EU and wider European environment and collaborate with major scientific stakeholders. We invite applications for a Project Officer.

The mission of the position is to assist the science staff in supporting ESF’s materials science related projects and platforms, completing grant evaluation processes and, when applicable representing ESF to improve its visibility on the European research landscape.

This position will involve:

• Assisting the science staff in supporting the relevant Expert Boards and Committees within the overall ESF Mission; supporting strategic activities and providing, in a timely manner, high-quality papers, minutes and reports; Supporting ESF activities including the implementation of European Projects with focus on materials science and engineering fields;
• Ensuring compliance with external contracts through full and timely reporting, liaising, in coordination with Administration and Finance, with external partners as appropriate and drafting proposals for future projects; Representing ESF in external meetings when necessary;
• Supporting the management of stakeholders and meetings;
• Informing the research community by proposing actions for science communication and preparing appropriate material (material for hard copy publication, including annual activity reports, and for the Web) under supervision of relevant senior staff; Keeping up-to-date with relevant scientific and research policy developments.

The Project Officer should demonstrate the following competencies:

Specific competencies:

• PhD or Master’s degree and preferably with a further 1-2 years’ research experience in physical or chemical sciences preferably Material sciences and engineering;
• Basic knowledge of European and national research structures and institutions and European and international science policy;
• Experience in scientific project management;
• High standard of spoken and written English, with a working knowledge of another European language being an advantage;
• Ability to draft, under supervision, concise and clear scientific documents;
• Good working knowledge of MS Office systems and of electronic databases and Web sites (Scopus, ISI Web of Science, Google Scholar...);
• Data analysis knowledge would be a plus.

Inter-personal competencies:

• Good organisational skills and capacity to deliver on allocated tasks and respond in a timely manner to deadlines;
• Action-orientated and responsible;
• Creative, willing to take initiative and continuously improvement-minded;
• Transparency in working and a team-orientated work ethic;
• Ability to represent ESF in the scientific community if applicable;
• Good communication skills across cultural and scientific boundaries, showing discretion, diplomacy and tolerance;
• Good presentational skills;
• Positive and constructive attitude.

Employment conditions:

This position empowers an emerging junior scientist with top-class learning in a very pleasant and dynamic environment.

• The position is expected to be full-time (100% FTE) and will start as soon as possible;
• The contract is offered for a duration of 18 months;
• The person selected for the position will be working from Strasbourg head office. The position may involve substantial travel.

Please send your application (cover letter + CV in English) by 07 April 2023 to jobs@esf.org quoting the following reference PO 2023. Interviews will be held in Strasbourg in April 2023.

The ESF will not discriminate, nor allow its staff to discriminate, against any member of staff or applicant for employment or ex-employee on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnic, national, cultural or social origin, skin colour, physical appearance, religion or believes, marital or parental status, mental or physical disability, political opinion, social or economic situation, or health status.

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