EU-project manager

The Systems Microscopy Network of Excellence (NoE) is a five year EU-financed project with eight partner institutes all over Europe that will start in January 2011.This NoE will be coordinated by Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Novum, Huddinge, where the NoE management office will be setup, and serve to coordinate and manage the NoE activities in research and technology development, training and dissemination.A full time position is now available as project manager for the Systems Microscopy NoE.The tasks of the project manager will include to maintain regular contacts and good relations with all partners and involved research groups, to overlook the execution of partner commitments in research, training and dissemination, to participate in the development and administer a dedicated web page for dissemination of results, to organize and execute NoE meetings and conferences, to handle budgeting, as well as financial monitoring and reporting, to establish and maintain good links with involved European commission officers and to compile yearly reports to the EC.Candidates should have a strong scientific background, preferably with a PhD in the Life Sciences, with experience of Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Statistics, Molecular Cell Biology, Cellular imaging and/or High throughput screening.A recent review of the topic can be found in: Lock JG.and Strömblad, S. Systems microscopy: an Emerging Strategy for the Life Sciences.Exp Cell Res 316, 1438 (2010).The position requires considerable experience from scientific project management, preferably from EU-projects, and excellent communication skills.The working language is English; excellence in oral and written English is therefore also a requirement.Experience from web page development and administration will be a strong merit, as well as experience from financial management of EU-projects. Applications marked with reference number 4575/2010 should be written in English and contain a personal letter, CV, and three letters of recommendation, and be sent by regular mail.