Project Assistant for Grant Accounting and Project Management

The Institute for Biomedicine, located at Bolzano's science and technology park NOI Techpark, is dedicated to improving health through precision prevention research. This interdisciplinary effort seeks to predict, slow or preempt illness progression by understanding genetic, biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Utilizing a decade-long population study in collaboration with the South Tyrolean Healthcare Service, the institute offers access to extensive data and biological materials suitable for such research.

With a focus on neurological, cardiovascular, and metabolic health, the team employs state-of-the-art labs and innovative management to span the full translational research cycle, from data generation to potential clinical application.

For our operational team we are seeking a highly motivated collaborator to provide our researchers with support in third party funding acquisition and management. As a project assistant, your main task is the organizational, administrative and financial management of all project activities (including communication) of third party funded projects.

Tasks:

Active contribution to the acquisition of external funding.

Supporting the project managers in the initial phase of project and budget planning (preparing all the requested documentation).

Providing project managers with timely financial reports and budgets, as well as project forecasts.

Monitoring of project deliverables/milestones achievement.

Supervision of dissemination and exploitation activities.

Preparing official projects financial reports (collection of all accounting documents, invoices, timesheet, uploading data on the different web portals, etc).

Being the administrative project’s contact person.

Monitoring receivable income.

Requirements:

BSc or MSc in economics or life sciences or equivalent experience in project accounting.

Experience in administration, controlling, management, preferably in a scientific institution.

Experience as a Project Accountant of European Projects (FESR-EFRE; Interreg ITA-AUT; Interreg ITA-CH; H2020; COST; LIFE; PNRR; etc).

Knowledge of Italian accountancy system.

Very good knowledge of English, written and spoken.

Very good knowledge of Italian, written and spoken. German, welcome but not necessary.

Extreme precision, stress resistance.

Capability to work in a structured, motivated and autonomous way.

Interest in biomedical research.

We offer:

A one-year full-time position.

Challenging and varied tasks with space for creative work.

Flat hierarchies and open communication and information sharing.

A collaborative work environment with multidisciplinary teams.

Attractive living and working conditions which allow professional growth and know-how-acquisition.

Gross annual salary ranging from 39.658,54 € to 46.842,19 €

Workplace location:
Eurac Research NOI Techpark, Via

A. Volta 21, 39100 Bolzano, Italy.

Benefits and work-life balance:
Eurac Research offers a welfare package designed to support employees’ well-being and work-life balance, contributing to a positive and inclusive working experience in an international research environment. The full and regularly updated list of benefits is available here.

Employment conditions:

Employment classification and applicable collective agreement: II level of the Italian National Collective Labour Agreement for the Tertiary/Commerce Sector

Gross Annual Salary range: the gross annual salary range is primarily linked to the advertised position, its requirements and expected level, and is defined according to Eurac Research’s internal remuneration framework. The candidate’s highest academic degree and any relevant professional experience documented in the CV are taken into account where applicable, but always within the salary range defined for the advertised position.

The range also reflects whether the position is full-time or part-time.

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