(Junior) Project Manager for Clinical Trial Paediatric Scientific Advice | conect4children

Be part of the largest European paediatric research infrastructure to date and ultimately contribute to effective and safe medicines for children. As our activities are successful and expanding, our conect4children team is now looking for an (junior) project manager. We offer a collaborative and friendly work environment, including our international collaborators. Will you join our important project?

You assist on the coordination scientific advice requests for paediatric drug trials and paediatric drug development programs as well as write the advice reports. In order to support these requests, knowledge of clinical trials and/or pharmacology/ (paediatric) medicine is a pre. Currently a new legal entity is being set-up to secure the advice service for the future. You will contribute to further develop the innovative advice organization into a successful and sustainable legal entity.

While you will spend part of your time in the office or working from home… no day is the same!
You will collaborate on a daily basis with the team and advice requesters to further evolve the strategic feasibility advice service, support the coordination of ongoing a newly received advice requests and the improvement of the different processes all simultaneously.

You will work closely with the Radboudumc team as well as with our national and international partners.

Day to day activities will include but are not limited to;

• Support the advisory board meetings.
• Provide support in the creation of written advice report.
• Monitor and collaborate with Quality Improvement Plans.
• Oversee the centralized contracting structure.
• Update and maintain process flows, SOPs and other documents.
• Liaise with Expert Group Leads and c4c partners across The Netherlands and Europe.
• Collaborate with the coordination of the different Expert Groups.

This job is not for everyone! You need to gain energy in working with different partners on different levels and love to quickly swift from one activity to the other. Conect4children is a project fully in motion and therefore the project manager needs to thrive in a continuously changing environment. Willingness and flexibility to travel (both nationally and in Europe) is a prerequisite.

We are looking for a enthusiastic and service-minded (junior) project manager, who loves to work on a service level, with a clear interest in process management and project support in an international context. Starters to the working field are invited to apply as well.

You should be a proactive and independent person, with an MSc (or proven experience at least at Master level) in medicine, biomedical sciences or pharmacy with expertise in drug development.

In addition you possess the profile below:

• Excellent communication skills in the Dutch and English language.
• Knowledge on: (paediatric) medicine/pharmacology/drug development/pharmacy/consulting
• Organization and time management skills.
• Experience with international project management.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).
• Ability to manage and keep oversight on multiple activities.
• Experience with paediatric trials and working experience in both academia and industry is a pre.

Working at Radboud university medical center means that you are ahead of the curve and working together on the healthcare of the future. And there is more. Our secondary terms of employment are impressive. These are fully tailored to you thanks to our Employment Conditions Selection Model. At Radboud university medical center, you will be given trust, and you will take the responsibility to handle everything together.

• A gross monthly salary between € 3.514 and € 4.817 (scale 9) based on full-time employment.
• An annual vacation allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• If you work irregular hours, you will receive an allowance.
• As a full-time employee (36 hours per week), you are entitled to approximately 168 vacation hours (over 23 days) per year.
• Radboud university medical center pays 70% of the pension premium. You pay the rest of the premium with your gross salary.
• Discount on your supplementary health insurance. You can make use of two collective health insurance policies: UMC Health Insurance and CZ Collective. They offer many extras to stay vital and healthy, such as a prevention budget, workshops, and apps.
• We provide annual courses, both professional and personal.

In addition to our terms of employment, we also offer employees various other attractive facilities, such as childcare and sports facilities. Want to learn more? Take a look at the CAO UMC.

Currently, approximately 40-60% of drugs prescribed to children are off-label. Their efficacy and safety have not been adequately studied, partly due to the lack of an infrastructure to support the development and execution of well-designed paediatric clinical trials. This leaves children at an increased risk of therapy failure or drug toxicity. The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Radboudumc is participating in a large EU funded project, conect4children (c4c) which is building an European-wide paediatric trial Infrastructure.

Being part of c4c, Radboudumc hosts an EU-wide one-stop shop for paediatric scientific advice. Our group is the Advisory Group Secretariat and coordinates the different advice requests to support the design of feasible, scientific solid and child-friendly trials.
To provide this service, an international network of over 400 experts, including clinicians, researchers, methodologists and parents & patients has been formed. We organize advisory board meetings (virtual and live) and provide advice reports upon request of pharmaceutical companies or academic institutions.

Our team
The Radboudumc c4c Advisory Group team consists of a coordinating paediatrician, a head advice service, an advice project manager and a secretary/management assistant. The larger c4c team is located throughout Europe and includes academic as well as industry partners.

The division
The division of Pharmacology and Toxicology aims to improve effective and safe drug therapy by preclinical and clinical research, with a focus on drug transport, vascular pharmacology, medication safety and perinatal/paediatric pharmacology.

Radboudumc
Radboud university medical center is a university medical center for patient care, scientific research, and education in Nijmegen. Radboud university medical center strives to be at the forefront of shaping the healthcare of the future. We do this in a person-centered and innovative way, and in close collaboration with our network. We want to have a significant impact on health and healthcare. We want to improve with each passing day, continuously working towards better healthcare, research, and education. And gaining a better understanding of how diseases arise and how we can prevent, treat, and cure them, day in and day out. This way, every patient always receives the best healthcare, now and in the future. Because that is why we do what we do.