Project Management Officer

**Job Reference**: - 199_25_DIR_ER_PMO **Position**: - Project Management Officer **Closing Date**: - Saturday, 22 March, 2025 **Reference**: 199_25_DIR_ER_PMO **Job title**: Project Management 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. Look at the BSC experience: BSC-CNS YouTube Channel Let's stay connected with BSC Folks We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences. **Context And Mission** This position will report to the Team Leader and senior advisor for international partnerships inside the BSC Director's Office. The main task will be to assist the team leader in exploring opportunities internationally with a special focus on regions and countries strategic for BSC, such as South America and the Caribbean, Japan, India, the US, and south Mediterranean countries. **Key Duties** - Explore and identify potential international partnerships in line with the BSC objectives and interests. - Organise meetings and conference calls with potential international partners. - Draft collaboration proposals and help define responses to EU and other funding agencies. - Support the Team Leader in his activities in projects in which he is the BSC PI. - Draft project deliverables and reports, monitor the project budget. - Coordinate consortium meetings. - Keep the project documentation in order and prepared to be audited by internal and external authorities. - Liaise with the other BSC departments, such as Communications, Legal, Education and scientific departments, to incubate and run international and EU-funded projects. - Manage the international schools that the TL leader directs, such as the ACM HPC summer school in Barcelona and the ACM HPC ASEAN school in South East Asia. **Requirements**: - Education - Bachelor degree in related disciplines or equivalent experience - Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience - At least 5 years experience in managerial roles in international projects. - Proven ability to draft proposals and answer EU and other funding agencies' RFPs. - Proven ability to coordinate the drafting and review of EU project deliverables. - Experience in organizing and running international events. - Proven ability to liaise with administration and service units in scientific institutes. - Availability to work on a flexible time schedule and to travel when necessary. - Excellent mastery of at least English and Spanish, working knowledge of other languages an additional advantage. - Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience - Experience in supervising and training junior staff in the same team. - Solid presentation skills and mastering of the necessary office tools such as MS PowerPoint, Excel, MS Teams, etc. - Master or Doctoral Degrees in related disciplines will be an additional value. - Competences - Capability to work independently and to face unexpected urgent peaks of work. **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 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement - Starting date: 01/04/2025 **Applications procedure and process** - A full CV in English including contact details - A cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the applicant wishes to be considered. Additionally, two references for further contacts must be included. Applications without this document will not be considered. **Development of the recruitment process** The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system ("Concurso-Oposición"). The recruitment process consists of two phases: - **Curriculum Analysis**: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history