Scientific Project Officer​/Scientific Project Manager

Our EMBL-EBI Training Team has a new opportunity for an experienced Scientific Project Officer or Scientific Project Manager for a 13 month absence cover. In this position you’ll play a key role in delivering an international portfolio of grant-funded projects, working at the intersection of science, training, project management and stakeholder engagement.

You will join our highly collaborative Training Team of around 20 colleagues, delivering face-to-face, virtual and online learning to a global audience. Our work spans the life sciences and bioinformatics communities and includes major externally funded programmes involving training, facilitation, project management and community strengthening.

This is a role where your scientific background, training and project management expertise, and ability to bring people together can make a tangible difference. Delivery of activities may, on occasion, require work outside of normal office hours and may involve some international travel.

You will help ensure the successful delivery and continuity of a portfolio of grant-funded projects, working with colleagues across EMBL-EBI and partners in international consortia. Depending on your experience and level of appointment, you will either contribute to the coordination of projects or take independent ownership of significant project activities and work packages.

• Driving project delivery – managing plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, KPIs, budgets and reporting to keep projects on track, in collaboration with key colleagues across the organisation.
• Working internationally – building productive relationships with project partners, funders, collaborators and stakeholders across EMBL-EBI and beyond.
• Creating impactful training – co-developing, delivering and evaluating high-quality training and knowledge-exchange activities across face-to-face, virtual and on-demand formats.
• Understanding community needs – conducting stakeholder and training-needs analysis, identifying emerging skills requirements and developing competency frameworks and communities around shared goals.
• Coordinating collaborative work – supporting or leading work packages, meetings and working groups, ensuring decisions and actions translate into delivery.
• Strengthening capability – contributing to train-the-trainer approaches, fellowships and participant-support activities, helping others develop their skills and expertise.
• Supporting the wider community – engaging with ELIXIR and other relevant international activities.
• Managing resources and quality – Maintain clear documentation and provide an orderly handover at the end of the absence-cover period, protecting continuity of project knowledge, decisions, relationships and next actions.

You will have the autonomy and responsibility appropriate to your experience, with the opportunity to take the lead on projects and guide colleagues where appropriate.

We are looking for someone who combines scientific credibility and training expertise with strong project and people skills.

You will have a PhD or equivalent expertise in molecular life sciences or a related subject, together with significant experience contributing to or managing international grant-funded projects.

• Demonstrable experience designing and delivering training, engagement or learning programmes for specific audiences across multiple formats.
• Experience in stakeholder analysis, training-needs analysis and competency development.
• Strong project management, organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences and…