Project Manager Grant Support

Tilburg University is an inclusive and engaged academic community, dedicated to sustainable broad prosperity for all. We are looking for a project manager to help researchers fund and coordinate their European research projects on complex societal issues.

As project manager you will join the Grant Support team and you will assist researchers from Tilburg University in applying for and coordinating consortium projects, in European (main focus) and Dutch funding programmes. You will act as the contact point for our researchers and the partner organizations and stakeholders both in project development and implementation. You are the linking pin within our organization, maintaining contact between the grant advisors, project/research support officers, project controllers, contract managers, and data managers.

You actively monitor the development process by, amongst others, finding suitable partners and maintaining contact, coordinating consortium meetings, and ensuring timely planning and writing of the proposal. If the project is awarded, you actively manage and coordinate the implementation process, prepare and submit reports on the scientific and administrative deliverables of the project.

The Grant Support team is currently composed of 10 grant advisors, who all have their own specific pre-award focus, be it research or education grants, individual or collaborative grants, specific funding schemes, specific Schools or research communities. You will fill a crucial role by managing and coordinating the awarded projects in the post-award phase. You also offer advice and help the grant advisors in the pre-award phase when needed. Grant Support is part of a larger support network and we work closely together with other units like Project Control and the Knowledge Transfer Office. If you enjoy working in a team, are proactive, and have strong communication and organization skills you could be a good match to join our team and our support network. 

Your tasks include (but are not limited to):

• Acting as contact point for the consortium, bring together and manage the consortium, make mutual agreements and proactively keep track of the partners’ activity.
• Acting as contact point for the internal support network, activate the right support units at the right time.
• Setting up and maintaining project administration, from pre-award to post-award.
• Organizing consultations and consortium meetings with relevant partners and stakeholders, pre- and post-award.
• Contributing to the project plan: approach, phasing, division of roles, specific requirements, etc.
• Facilitating and coordinating project development and completion of outputs from the various consortium partners.
• Prepare, coordinate, write and submit interim and final reports for the funding agency.
• Organizing activities such as conferences, workshops, lectures, and presentations.
• Ideally assist in financial coordination and negotiation between the partners of the consortium.

Your qualifications and talents:

• Experience with project management.
• Experience and/or demonstrable affinity with research projects.
• Excellent written and oral skills in English, command of the Dutch language is a plus.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills, you can control several projects and/or deadlines at the same time.
• Excellent social and communication skills.
• A proactive, stimulating attitude; you form a team with the researcher, the consortium, and the colleagues from Grant Support and the wider support network.
• Preferably, you have knowledge of rules and procedures for European funding programmes, or the experience which will enable you to quickly master these rules and procedures.

Our offer:

This is a position for 0.8 FTE (32 hours per week) of the full-time working week. The salary amounts to a minimum of €3546 and a maximum of €5538 gross per month for full time employment contract, based on UFO position: Project leader, level 1 / scale 10 of the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. Tilburg University uses a neutral salary system for scaling that is based on relevant education and work experience.

This is a vacancy for a position whose work is temporarily funded on the basis of project funding, in accordance with Article 2.3 paragraph 7 sub b CLA DU. You will be given a temporary contract for the duration of 12 months (max 36 months in 3 contracts).

You are entitled to a vacation allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% of your gross annual income. If you work 40 hours per week, you will receive 41 paid days of leave per year.

Tilburg University offers excellent employment conditions. We think flexibility, professional and personal development, and good employee benefits important. We make clear agreements about career paths and offer all kinds of facilities and schemes to maintain an optimal balance between work and private life. You can also follow numerous training courses, for example in the areas of leadership skills, personal effectiveness, and career development.

Serving society and making it better for its citizens. That is what drives us. Tilburg University's founder, Martinus Cobbenhagen, believed that anyone who wants to understand society must be actively and consciously involved in it. These ideas still form the basis of our university.

Under the motto Understanding society, our more than 1,500 employees develop and transfer knowledge and bring people from different disciplines and organizations together. In this way, we want to contribute to solving complex social issues. In doing so, we work from the fields of economics, business and entrepreneurship, social and behavioral sciences, law and administration, humanities and digital sciences, and theology.

We educate our 20,000 students of 132 nationalities to become Tilburg University Shaped Professionals: responsible and entrepreneurial thinkers, driven by solidarity, a sense of responsibility and empathy, who are able to influence and give direction to a rapidly changing society in an innovative way.

Academic Services

More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Suzanne Jongman at s.r.jongman@tilburguniversity.edu or 013-466 3710.