Project Manager – Social Innovation projects

We are looking for a talented and motivated Project Manager of Social Innovation projects to join the Project Management Office, linked to the European/International Post-Award Unit at Fundació Sant Joan de Déu.

The Project Management Office – PMO

The International Post-Award Unit runs a portfolio of more than 50 European projects (mainly from European Commission- Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe), 10 of which are coordinated by our institution. The International Post-Award Unit includes a Project Management Office (PMO) offering support to Principal Investigators from IRSJD and other researchers from Sant Joan de Déu ecosystem in project coordination. Our project manager’s team provides daily scientific, technical and managerial support to Principal Investigators to help them in successfully develop their international or national projects.

The candidate will be integrated in the PMO and shall be responsible for the effective implementation of the assigned projects, specially dedicated to those tasks related to social innovation.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Get involved with the assigned projects and participate in project management and coordination activities:
  • Coordination of day to day internal work according to work plan (control of quality process, periodic internal meetings and agendas, distribution of work, follow up of deadlines),
  • Providing guidance to project partners (technical orientation, mitigation plan, ethical issues, work plan…), resolution of conflict, orientation of partners toward work plan, guidance of consortium toward objectives, traduce coordinator’s decision making toward actions,
  • Coordination of Work package where SJD is leader, organization of meetings, collecting documents, writing activity reports and deliverables where SJD is responsible,
  • Project quality and risk management (revision of all final document as deliverables, communication, exploitation plan….),
  • Support in the elaboration of the scientific-technical reports to the funding agency,
  • Preparation of agendas and presentations for project meetings and project related committees (advisory board, external experts…) participation in meeting, draft minutes,
  • Elaboration of a Data Management Plan and DPIA. Data management plan follow up. Monitoring of data protection compliance,
  • Monitoring of ethical regulatory process and compliance. Preparing and submitting dossier (protocol, informed consent….) to Ethical Committee when relevant
  • Gantt chart follow up.
  • Interface with stakeholders (participants, schools, city councils, providers, social services, associations, subcontractors…)
• Get involved with the assigned projects and participate in social innovation activities:
  • Contribute to define the impact strategy (theory of change, impact pathways and impact narratives) to ensure that projects are transformative.
  • Contribute to define and lead the implementation of project’s monitoring and evaluation activities.
  • Design and lead the implementation of co-creation and participatory activities (workshops, trainings, hackatons…).
  • Design and lead knowledge valorization activities with the involvement of relevant stakeholders.
  • Support in the transferability and standardization of outputs (products, processes, learning experiences,…), development of exploitation plan, foster scalability.
  • Contribute to the communication and dissemination strategy of the project.
  • Social awareness raising strategy definition and implementation.
• Support the Pre-Award unit in the process of defining project ideas or challenges using co-creation and participatory activities with relevant stakeholders.