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Job ID: 30901
Specialisation: Management
Level: Management | Team Lead
Location: Bulgaria | Stara Zagora

For our client, the H2Start project in Stara Zagora, we are currently searching for a motivated and experienced

Operational project manager

to support in particular the organisational development and total capacity growth.

H2Start aims to establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE) to drive innovation in renewable hydrogen production. This initiative contributes to the transition towards a lowcarbon, energy-secure economy and is supported by Trakia University (TrU) and BGH2A, in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) and ITAE – CNR. It will provide modern infrastructure to attract and retain top-tier researchers, fostering academic and industry collaboration for cutting-edge innovation and technology transfer and is funded with € 30 Mio. from both EU and national funds.

Requirements for the Candidate:

  • Experience as project manager or deputy in at least 3 projects during last 5 years, at least one with the size of 1M EUR
  • Experience in organisational development
  • Has experience with Bulgarian public procurements for at least 4 years
  • Possibility to work part of the time on-site in Stara Zagora, plus conduct occasionally international business trips – mandatory
  • Fluency in English (written and spoken)
  • Higher education in Management or Economics

Preferences:

  • Experience with scientific projects, especially in STEM field
  • Work with international environment (working abroad or work with international partners)
  • Has good knowledge of Horizon 2020 and/or Horizon Europe administration processes
  • Fluency in Bulgarian language
  • Experience with innovations and business development
  • Experience in building sustained growth
  • Enjoying managing change and organisational transformation (and has strong track record)
  • Ability to adopt in fast growing, dynamic environments
  • Leadership skills and personality to lead people thru periods of change and uncertainty, building new organisation, processes, tools

Main responsibilities:

  • Overall coordination and operational management of the Horizon Europe H2Start project as a project manager
  • Ensuring the key goal to build modern, highly sustainable and internationally competitive Hydrogen technologies research and innovation center in Bulgaria
  • Supervision of reaching objectives, KPIs, milestones of the project
  • Direct work with work package leaders and key task leaders as relevant to reach expected results
  • Organization and supervision of project administration, financial, procurement and legal activities
  • Organization and facilitation of project Consortium and operational meetings
  • Work with international partners, boosting their engagement
  • Coordination and oversight of development, compilation and submission of project periodic reports, deliverables, amendments
  • Full engagement in timely setting up and development of the new H2Start Center of Excellence and all the relevant processes needed for its full operations
  • Ensuring smooth implementation of the project and timely engagement of all relevant team members (H2Start center, Trakia University, Bulgarian Hydrogen Association, Polito, CNR)

Work conditions:

  • Bulgarian Full time labour contract
  • Hybrid working model with at least 50% of time in-person in Stara Zagora
  • Other social benefits
  • Opportunity to gain valuable experience in one of the largest scientific projects in Bulgaria

Please send us your application in English language using the form below.

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