Project manager position in Sweden

[Sylvie Le Guyader-2]

Dear list

 

I would like to share with you the opening of a project manager position for an EU Network of Excellence at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

This project is based on Systems Microscopy and involves a lot of imaging as well as other techniques.

 

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

 

Sylvie

 

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Sylvie Le Guyader

Live Cell Imaging Unit

Dept of Biosciences and Nutrition

Karolinska Institutet

Sweden

office: [phone]

mobile: [phone]

 

 

Karolinska Institutet invites applications for a EU-project manager
Workplace:	Department of Biosciences and Nutrition
Department / unit or equivalent:	The Systems Microscopy Network of Excellence (NoE)
Form of employment:	Permanent
Scope:	Full-time
Description of the work group/equivalent and its work/focus:	The Systems Microscopy Network of Excellence (NoE) is a five year EU-financed project with eight partner institutes all over Europe that will start in January 2011. This NoE will be coordinated by Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Novum, Huddinge, where the NoE management office will be setup, and serve to coordinate and manage the NoE activities in research and technology development, training and dissemination.
Area of responsibilities/duties:	A full time position is now available as project manager for the Systems Microscopy NoE. The tasks of the project manager will include to maintain regular contacts and good relations with all partners and involved research groups, to overlook the execution of partner commitments in research, training and dissemination, to participate in the development and administer a dedicated web page for dissemination of results, to organize and execute NoE meetings and conferences, to handle budgeting, as well as financial monitoring and reporting, to establish and maintain good links with involved European commission officers and to compile yearly reports to the EC.
Qualifications:	Candidates should have a strong scientific background, preferably with a PhD in the Life Sciences, with experience of Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Statistics, Molecular Cell Biology, Cellular imaging and/or High throughput screening. A recent review of the topic can be found in: Lock JG. and Strömblad, S. Systems microscopy: an Emerging Strategy for the Life Sciences. Exp Cell Res 316, 1438 (2010). The position requires considerable experience from scientific project management, preferably from EU-projects, and excellent communication skills. The working language is English; excellence in oral and written English is therefore also a requirement. Experience from web page development and administration will be a strong merit, as well as experience from financial management of EU-projects.
Contact:	Professor Staffan Strömblad [phone] [hidden email]
Chief Administrator Ingwar Lennerfors [phone] [hidden email]
Application procedure:	Applications marked with reference number 4575/2010 should be written in English and contain a personal letter, CV, and three letters of recommendation, and be sent by regular mail.
Application sent to:	Karolinska Institutet Department of Biosciences and Nutrition Vivian Hildebrand 14183 Huddinge Sweden
Reference number:	4575/2010
Last date for applications:	September 15 2010       Karolinska Institutet is one of the world´s leading medical universities. Its mission is to contribute to the improvement of human health through research and education. Karolinska Institutet accounts for over 40 per cent of the medical academic research conducted in Sweden and offers the country´s broadest range of education in medicine and health sciences. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine. The department performs research and education in areas of medical science. These include signal transduction and gene regulation, structural biology and bio-organic chemistry, human genetics and functional genomics, cellular virology and environmental toxicology.