Project Manager

Job Description

We are seeking to recruit an experienced Project Manager for the day-to-day coordination of our PhenoMeNal H2020 grant, to create an international e-infrastructure for large-scale computing and analysis of medical metabolomics data. You will join the Cheminformatics team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located at the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK.

This is a project with a budget of €8M, distributed over 13 partners with about 830 person-months / 65 deliverables scheduled over a 3-year period. The PhenoMeNal project will develop and deploy an integrated, secure, permanent, on-demand service-driven, privacy-compliant and sustainable e-infrastructure for the processing, analysis and information-mining of the massive amount of medical molecular phenotyping and genotyping data that will be generated by metabolomics applications now entering research and clinic. You will also help coordinating outreach and training both in terms of online and face-to-face training, in collaboration with EMBL-EBI's professional outreach and training team.

The EBI is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and it is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community with expertise in data storage, analysis and representation. EMBL-EBI provides freely available data from life science experiments, performs basic research in computational biology and offers an extensive user training programme, supporting researchers in academic and industry.

Qualifications and Experience

Key responsibilities:
•Coordinate and manage a diverse international team
•Timely reporting and delivery of all project commitments to the European Commission
•Tracking of all project related costs
•Keeping the project on schedule
•Organisation and coordination of regular meetings between project partners

Excellent coordination and project management skills with experience of negotiating, managing and reporting research grants are critical to the success of the role. Experience with managing EC funded research projects is a significant asset. Experience of presenting to larger groups is essential.

You must have an outgoing and open personality and be able to work as part of a focussed team, but as the same time be self-driven, trustworthy and able to work independently. You must be a structured worker with good communication skills, willingness to travel to European project meetings.

Benefits

EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research organisation. The remuneration package comprises a competitive salary, a comprehensive pension scheme and health insurance, educational and other family related benefits where applicable, as well as financial support for relocation and installation.

We provide a dynamic, international working environment and have close ties with both the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

EMBL-EBI staff also enjoy excellent sports facilities, a free shuttle bus to Cambridge and other nearby centres, an active sports and social club and an attractive working environment set in 55 acres of parkland.

The initial contract is for a period of 3 years with the possibility of a fixed-term extension.

Application Instructions

We welcome applications irrespective of gender and appointment will be based on merit alone. Applications are welcome from all nationalities - visa information will be discussed in more depth with applicants selected for interview

Applications will close at 23:00 GMT on the 2nd August.