Education & Training Officer - International Hpc Training Program Officer

**Job Reference**:

- 118_25_DIR_E&T_ETO

**Position**:

- Education & Training Officer - International HPC training program officer

**Closing Date**:

- Friday, 28 February, 2025

**Reference**: 118_25_DIR_E&T_ETO

**Job title**: Education & Training Officer - International HPC training program officer

**About BSC**
- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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**Context And Mission**
- We are seeking a professional with technical training in a field related to High Performance Computing (HPC), computer science, other science or engineering to join our team, to play a key role in European projects related to HPC education and training.

The Education and Training team coordinates activities and develops opportunities for collaboration with other HPC research centers and Supercomputing centers, as well as world class universities. The team collaborates at the local, national, and European levels.

Current projects of greatest interest to our team and relevance for this position include CASTIEL2 and EuroCC2. EuroCC2 is a project designed to map and enhance each participating European country’s HPC resources, expertise, and skills. CASTIEL2 is a project aimed at enhancing cooperation and expertise across Europe in HPC. Its main goals include promoting collaboration, standardising HPC knowledge and practices, and facilitating the exchange of expertise.

**Key Duties**
- Play an active role in the energy and success of internationally coordinated HPC education and training initiatives with your presence, enthusiasm, and creative contributions based on your technical background and perspectives
- Facilitate contact and communications at the European level with international participants, speakers, training providers, and other stakeholders
- Accompany strategic decision-making in HPC education in Europe through active collaboration and discussion with partners, incorporation of input, and response to feedback
- Prepare and submit reports and documentation professionally and within the deadlines
- Coordinate, and support meetings, training events, seminars and other activities of the Education & Training team for different audiences
- Contribute to writing of international and national grant proposals
- Support the design and implementation of the BSC training program in alignment with European initiatives
- Provide broader administrative support for the team and BSC for relevant activities, as needed

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience, preferably in a technical field such as computer science, HPC, a scientific domain, engineering, or similar
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Ability to effectively manage time and organise information to ensure the smooth functioning of multiple ongoing activities in parallel
- Competence using office software and tools to edit documents, create presentations, and store and analyse data
- Competence participating in, hosting, and presenting during online and hybrid meetings
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
- Experience in international project management would be advantageous
- Experience working in European projects would be advantageous
- Experience in event organisation would be a plus
- Additional European languages would be a plus
- Competences
- Organisation skills to handle multiple assignments
- Communication skills
- Ability to work independently, in a team, and in a multicultural environment

**Conditions**
- The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 23