As an outcome of our successful performance in acquiring competitive funding Erasmus Research Services is looking for a new team member to support major research initiatives: largescale, high impact, complex and multi-stakeholder research projects. This position offers the opportunity for someone with experience in managing multi stakeholder projects to work with scientific leads and to be their right hand on managing consortium relationships and organizational and financial management of the project.

Job description
As Project Manager Major Research Initiatives your focus will be on major and complex research initiatives that are funded via European, national or regional funds. As the scientific lead’s right hand on managing consortium relationships, organizational and financial management and delivery of the project, you will be responsible for all organizational, contractual, and financial/administrative processes and communications. You will safeguard deadlines, monitor progress and prepare any non-scientific reports required by the project. Also, you will organize project events with or without additional help, depending on scale.

You are successful when all stakeholders are always well informed, when the project is compliant with the funding requirements and when your work enables the scientific staff on the project to focus on doing science.

You will be embedded within Erasmus Research Services and report in line to the head of the Grant Support Office at ERS and subsequently to the scientific lead(s) of the projects you support. In your day to day, you will work very closely with your team, the scientific team and the Coordinator Project Management Major Research Initiatives.

Required experience, skills and competencies:

• Working and thinking level equivalent to a university degree or degree from a university of applied sciences;
• Three years of experience in managing multistakeholder projects;
• Affinity with social sciences and humanities.
• A good set of people skills;
• Accurate, solution oriented and capable of dealing with tight deadlines;
• The capability to act as a trusted sparring partner for scientists and other partners in a consortium;
• The ability to recognize the challenges and opportunities of working in a team that is developing;
• Excellent verbal and written command of English (CEFR level C1). Dutch language skills (level B) will be viewed positively. You should have willingness to take Dutch Courses in case the level of Dutch is not sufficient.

It will positively viewed if in addition you bring one or more of the following:

• Experience with projects funded through the European Commission or NWO;
• Knowledge of and/or interest in of project management methodologies.

An internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with good working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU).

The start date of this position is 1 September 2023 or as soon as possible and you will be based at the Campus Woudestein - Rotterdam, located at Erasmus Research Services (ERS). The position is for 0,8 fte - 1 fte. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge and ranges from a minimum of € 3.974 to a maximum of € 5.439 gross per month on a fulltime basis, in accordance with Scale 11 of the CAO-NU. In addition, we offer an 8% holiday allowance, an end-of-year payment of 8.3%, and a very generous paid leave scheme. Furthermore, EUR is affiliated with ABP for the pension provision, and we offer partially paid parental leave, fully paid extended birth leave for partners, a personal career budget, work-life balance coaches, discounted collective health insurance, and more. As an employee, you can also use EUR facilities such as the University library and receive a discount on subscriptions for the Erasmus sports center.

Erasmus University Rotterdam offers a Dual Career Programme (DCP) to assist the life partners of new academic staff (on payroll) in finding employment in The Netherlands. The programme is offered in close cooperation with the nearby universities of Delft and Leiden.

Erasmus University Rotterdam aspires to be an equitable and inclusive community. We nurture an open culture, where everyone is supported to fulfill their full potential. We see inclusivity of talent as the basis of our successes, and the diversity of perspectives and people as a highly valued outcome. EUR provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, functional impairment, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We look forward to welcoming you to our community.

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 3.700 academics and professionals and almost 33.000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl.

Faculty / Institute / Central service
Erasmus Research Services (ERS) advances excellent research and engagement to maximize positive societal impact. ERS creates conditions for transparent, inclusive, collaborative, and impactful research through strategic and operational expertise. We provide pathways for talents to reach their full potential and we advance fruitful collaborations, enabling Erasmus University to be a front runner in embedding excellent research in society. The following areas of support are embedded within ERS: Business Development, Grant Support, Legal Counsels, Open Science, Research Data Management, Ethics Review and Research Intelligence. ERS is a relatively young service department within Erasmus University Rotterdam and is steadily building and extending its service portfolio. ERS provides support to all faculties of Erasmus university Rotterdam (occasionally to Erasmus University Medical Center).