Your future responsibilities
SAL is looking for a motivated Junior Expert to support our Research Support Office (RSO) team. RSO offers research services to researchers at SAL. It accompanies projects from the idea to project planning, the application and bidding phase (pre-award), supports the start and during the implementation phase (post-award) to project completion and the exploitation of research results and technologies. As an interface to industry, other research institutions and funding authorities, it facilitates SAL´s Research Units R&D excellence and supports all forms of technology transfer.
You will will work closely with SAL´s Researchers and Project Managers, other experienced members of the RSO team specialized on grants, SAL Management and relevant financial and administrative contacts of SAL to advance, support and guide SAL´s acquisition and implementation of research and in particular its research-related grants and/or collaborations with Industrial Partners.
Your future tasks include:
- Identification of strategically relevant trends and decisions of funding organizations with a focus on the EU and research grants calls or project opportunities relevant for SAL´s research groups.
- Contribute to the co-development and implementation of the long-term strategic vision for research, ensuring alignment with the organization's goals and objectives, with a focus on third-party collaborations.
- Advise and provide support regarding research funding, innovation funding and application within the framework of competitive national, EU or international funding programs and SAL´s collaboration schemes
- Support in the conception and preparation of a variety of proposals, ranging from grants to collaborative proposals and facilitate international project consortium-building, for the purposes of successful grant and project intake.
- Collaboration in the compilation and, selectively, on coordination of international and national consortia (e.g. with partners in scientific collaborations)
- Build good relationships with the funding agencies, develop and maintain expert knowledge on research grants together with the entire team and researcher community
- Support Project management and administration of funded projects, ensuring PM´s excellent project delivery and business success. e.g. contracts, content-related project controlling facilitation, preparation of reports, maintenance of databases and interfaces, etc.
- Interface to other departments such as legal department, human resources, controlling, etc. and connect researchers within SAL to facilitate interdisciplinary research
- Communication with national and international partners as well as Project Officers of the funding agencies
- Collaboration in the design, support and implementation of internal SAL programs
- Conception, organization and implementation of information and training/teaching events