Are you passionate about scientific research and technology? Do you thrive in an innovative environment, surrounded by experts who share your enthusiasm? Are you excited about navigating the intricate world of funding and helping researchers achieve their goals? Do you possess strategic thinking skills and love empowering researchers to turn their visions into reality? Do you enjoy fostering connections between academia and industry, and acting as a content-driven leader? If your answer is a resounding "yes" to these questions, we want to hear from you! Let's connect and explore how we can collaborate to make a difference in the world of research.
InformationAs an Institute Program Manager, you will be engaged in a diverse range of activities related to research funding acquisition, proposal and project development, strategic thinking and stakeholder management to meet industrial needs, and providing support to a wide variety of researchers. In your role as a Program Manager, you will assist researchers in identifying attractive funding opportunities, refining their research ideas, and funding strategy, coordinating (inter-)national consortia, linking researchers' competencies with industry needs, and articulating their research vision with clarity and precision. You will collaborate closely with researchers, other Institute Program Managers and Project Development officers (PDOs) from the TU/e departments involved in the Casimir Institute, as well as industrial fellows and the research centers, and colleagues in supporting roles such as finance, legal, and HR. The focus of your activities will be part of the Equipment and Components domain, which is one of the four research domains within the Casimir Institute.
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Research Support Office (RSO) is the central Research Support Office of TU/e and consists of a small, close-knit team of professionals who support the scientific staff in applying for European and national grants for research. The RSO team further consists of research funding advisors, grant consultants, corporate lawyers, and project managers.
As Institute Program Manager Casimir you will be embedded in the RSO and from there be allocated to work for Casimir. You will become part of a larger team of Institute Program Managers and Research Support staff for other TU/e institutes such as EAISI, EIRES and ICMS. This allows knowledge exchange and team building with colleagues with a similar role, albeit for a different institute.
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https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-support-network/research-support-officeYou will be positioned in the Casimir Institute and be part of the TU/e-wide research support network. This is a position that offers lots of freedom and opportunities to define and shape your role, and ample space for personal development and growth. Your daily activities consist of:
- Proactively supporting researchers in the acquisition of research projects.
- Matching opportunities to the expertise and research interests of researchers in the institute by communicating the current and future developments in both the national and European funding landscape.
- Helping build consortia, by enriching the researchers’ network with internal or external collaborators.
- Be an influencing member in relevant (NL and EU) networks.
- Have deep understanding of specific collaborative programs in the national and European funding landscape
- Form, build and maintain communities around equipment and components, where researchers from various departments collaborate.
- Manage the proposal development of complex, multi-disciplinary projects proposals, in good cooperation with departmental research support (PDOs and others).
- Initiate and create research programs directly with industry.
- Strategic networking and lobbying to increase funding opportunities.
- Support the head of science for equipment and components in creating and developing all the activities related to that domain.