Project Coordinator

Are you an experienced Project Manager with an interest in digital skills and capacity building? Then this job is for you!

Job Description

As Project Coordinator at 4TU.ResearchData you will coordinate a two-year project to build digital skills training and lesson development capacity in the Netherlands for the Natural and Engineering Sciences (NES). The project is funded by NWO through the Thematic Digital Competence Centre for Natural and Engineering Sciences and aims to stimulate digital research skills in NES using the methods and networks of the Carpentries. More specifically, the project will train 50 new Carpentries instructors and connect these instructors in local/regional training hubs of research performing organisations. The project will also train three teams to develop new lesson materials relevant to the NES domain which will be made publicly available.

In this role, you will work closely with project partners from several institutions in the Netherlands as well as the Dutch network of Carpentries Coordinators, Research Software Training NL (RST-NL), Coding Cafés and other stakeholders. You will be part of the 4TU.ResearchData team at the TU Delft Library.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• Project coordination including leading work packages and overseeing project timelines, milestones and deliverables;
• Project administration and reporting, including financial administration of the project for 4TU.ResearchData;
• Liaising and coordinating with other work package leaders, project partners and networks (e.g. Carpentries Coordinators Network NL, RST-NL, Coding Cafés) and other project stakeholders, including related TDCC NES projects;
• Developing and managing calls for instructor training, lesson development and workshop hosting, including all processes and documents (e.g. eligibility criteria, selection processes, application forms);
• Facilitating and strengthening connections between new instructors and relevant networks and training activities;
• Supporting the formation of local training hubs by liaising with institutions and networks;
• Writing and disseminating project news, announcements and updates to showcase outcomes;
• Organising project meetings and events as needed;
• Supporting other colleagues within and outside the 4TU.ResearchData team, as appropriate and relevant.

About 4TU.ResearchData

4TU.ResearchData is a research infrastructure, community and training provider whose mission is to enable researchers from science, engineering and design disciplines to make a global impact with research data and software. We provide a trusted digital repository which supports Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data and software by offering curation, sharing, long-term access and preservation. Our community and training activities facilitate knowledge sharing, help to upskill data professionals and researchers, and promote open and reproducible science. 4TU.ResearchData is governed and led by a consortium of four technical universities in the 4TU.Federation (TU Delft, University of Twente, TU Eindhoven and Wageningen University & Research) and is hosted by TU Delft.

Job Requirements

We are looking for enthusiastic candidates who have:

• Demonstrated project coordination skills and experience, including project management, administration and reporting;
• Good understanding and experience of working in higher education and research contexts;
• Excellent team-working and collaboration skills, including experience leading or working with multiple project partners, networks and stakeholders;
• Strong personal communication skills, including an ability to engage and communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders;
• Strong written communication skills, including an ability to tailor communication for different audiences;
• Good command of English and willingness to learn Dutch if not yet proficient;
• Familiarity with organisation ‘The Carpentries’ is desirable but not essential.

About TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

University Corporate Office – TU Delft Library

TU Delft Library is the largest technical-scientific library in the Netherlands, a physical and virtual meeting place. The Library helps to find valuable knowledge needed for education and research, and to publish and store the knowledge generated at TU Delft. We believe it is important that knowledge is easily accessible and freely available to everyone. In this way, knowledge can flow freely and TU Delft's knowledge can become valuable to others. The Library is also a place where everyone can study in peace and quiet. This fits in with our inclusive organisation.

The Library has chosen three strategic themes to guide its daily activities.

• Open Science. We make an important contribution to TU Delft's broad strategic programme "Open Science - Research and Education in the Open Era".
• Visibility and impact. With our expertise and tools in the field of research data management, research intelligence and publishing, we increase the findability, visibility and impact of TU Delft knowledge.
• Inspiring learning and working environment. Through stimulating programming, we show how freely available and reliable knowledge makes life richer. This makes the Library a place where you can find new ideas and insights.

Conditions of Employment

• Duration of contract is 1 year with possibility of (maximum) extension of 1 year.
• Temporary external finance
• A job of 22-24 hours per week.
• A salary based on Scale 11 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €4728 - €6433 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

For more information about this vacancy, please contact Daniel Bangert, Director 4TU.ResearchData at d.f.bangert@tudelft.nl.