We are looking for a talented and motivated Project Manager of Social Innovation projects to join the Project Management Office, linked to the European/International Post-Award Unit at Fundació Sant Joan de Déu.
The Project Management Office – PMO
The Project Management Office – PMO was created in 2019 under the umbrella of the European/International Post-Award Unit. This Unit runs a portfolio of more than 50 projects (mainly from the European Commission), 10 of which are coordinated by our institution. The PMO offers support to Principal Investigators (PI) in several areas of scientific and project management, such as project management, scientific coordination, support in ethics and regulatory issues, communication, social innovation, impact management, financial issues, and reporting. The mission of the PMO is to accompany the researcher in a professionalized manner by offering support in the areas of scientific and project management. The ultimate goal is that the projects are implemented with the quality standards required by our institution and funding agencies, fulfilling the expectations of the research team and the collaborating entities.
The candidate will be integrated into the PMO and shall be responsible for the effective implementation of the assigned projects, especially dedicated to those tasks related to social innovation activities such as design and implementation of co-creation and participatory activities, monitoring and evaluation during the project lifecycle, knowledge valorization, impact evaluation, and communication and dissemination.
Main tasks and responsibilities:
* Get involved with the assigned projects and participate in project management and scientific coordination activities :
o Coordination of day-to-day internal work according to the work plan (control of quality process, periodic internal meetings and agendas, distribution of work, follow-up of deadlines),
o Providing guidance to project partners (technical orientation, mitigation plan, ethical issues, work plan…), resolution of conflict, orientation of partners toward work plan, guidance of consortium toward objectives, translate coordinator’s decision-making toward actions,
o Coordination of Work package where SJD is leader, organization of meetings, collecting documents, writing activity reports, and deliverables where SJD is responsible,
o Project quality and risk management (revision of all final documents as deliverables, communication, exploitation plan….),
o Support in the elaboration of the scientific-technical reports to the funding agency,
o Preparation of agendas and presentations for project meetings and project-related committees (advisory board, external experts…) participation in meetings, draft minutes,
o Elaboration of a Data Management Plan and DPIA. Data management plan follow-up. Monitoring of data protection compliance,
o Monitoring of ethical regulatory process and compliance. Preparing and submitting dossier (protocol, informed consent….) to Ethical Committee when relevant,
o Gantt chart follow-up.
o Interface with stakeholders (participants, schools, city councils, providers, social services, associations, subcontractors…)
* Get involved with the assigned projects and participate in social innovation activities :
o Contribute to define the impact strategy (theory of change, impact pathways, and impact narratives) to ensure that projects are transformative.
o Contribute to define and lead the implementation of project’s monitoring and evaluation activities.
o Design and lead the implementation of co-creation and participatory activities (workshops, trainings, hackathons…).
o Design and lead knowledge valorization activities with the involvement of relevant stakeholders.
o Support in the transferability and standardization of outputs (products, processes, learning experiences,…), development of exploitation plan, foster scalability.
o Contribute to the communication and dissemination strategy of the project.
o Definition and implementation of capacity-building workshops and trainings.
o Social awareness raising strategy definition and implementation.
* Support the Pre-Award unit in the process of defining project ideas or challenges using co-creation and participatory activities with relevant stakeholders.
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