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Scientific Project Manager Position for ARIES project

Job Summary

The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) offers a full-time Scientific Project Manager Position on the ARIES project under the planes complementarios de investigación conjunta dedicated to biodiversity.
We are looking for a Scientific Project Manager who can support the coordination and management of the ARIES team work in the framework of the “planes complementarios de investigación conjunta” dedicated to biodiversity . The ARtificial Intelligence for Environment & Sustainability (ARIES) platform (https://aries.integratedmodelling.org/), is a semantic web infrastructure that uses AI to build computational solutions to environmental, policy and sustainability problems.

Job Description

The position’s duties will include (1) internal coordination of the ARIES team work within BC3 in the development of the ARIES platform and (2) interfacing with external project partners and stakeholders of the Basque and Spanish institutions involved in the management of Planes Complementarios del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.

Key responsibilities:

Support the Scientific Coordination (F. Villa, S. Balbi and M.J. Sanz) in the Strategic Management of the project.
Financial and administrative project management of the ARIES project.
Focal contact point between the Scientific Coordination, and ARIES collaborators worldwide.
Manage interactions with internal and external specialists on communication, and with the external advisory board.
International travelling and participation to ARIES-related meetings when required.
Team work organization and supervision in relation to ongoing ARIES research activities.
Organization of project meetings, including financial and administrative aspects.
New hires processing and management
Main requirements/skills:

Masters or PhD degree.
Experience in Scientific Project Management.
Experience in R&D projects.
Previous exposure to Open Source Software related projects.
Excellent project management skills related to finance, administration and communication.
Ability to coordinate teamwork and interact with a broad range of scientific and policy stakeholders at European, Spanish and Basque levels.
Excellent written and oral command of English and Spanish.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Benefits and work environment

Interdisciplinary and inspiring work environment.
35-hour week work calendar.
30 work days of vacation per year.
Flexibility

Benefits

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