Project assistant

At Mälardalen University people meet who want to develop themselves and the future. Our 16 000 students read courses and study programmes in Business, Health, Engineering and Education. We conduct research within all areas of education and have internationally outstanding research in future energy and embedded systems. Our close cooperation with the private and public sectors enables us at MDH to help people feel better and the earth to last longer. Mälardalen University is located on both sides of Lake Mälaren with campuses in Eskilstuna and Västerås.

At the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering our students are studying to be for example innovators, entrepreneurs, illustrators, communications officers, network technicians and engineers. Here we have the research specialisations of Embedded Systems, and Innovation and Product Realisation. Our work takes place in cooperation with and in strategic agreements with companies, organisations and public authorities in the region.

The position is in the environment of Embedded System which is mainly dedicated to software development for embedded systems in automotive, rail and telecom domains, as well as in automation and process industry.

Employment information
Employment: Temporary employment
Scope: Part-time 20 %
Closing date for application: 2020-09-09
Campus location: Västeras
School: School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, (IDT)

Position description
Mälardalen University is looking for a project assistant specializing at European industrial collaborative research projects, with competence as lawyer. The position will mainly be for Data protection coordination of a current project (VeriDevOps) and partly for proposal management for European projects within Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

Data protection coordination of VeriDevOps (H2020-ICT-50-2020) being the global data protection officer of the project.

Tasks involve:


• Work package lead of WP8 Ethic Requirements
• Global coordination of the data protection
• Chair the Ethical and Data Protection Committee
• Data protection policy, technical and organizational measures to safeguard rights and freedoms of the data subject/research, description of security measures against unauthorized access to personal data, description of the anonymisation/pseudonymisation techniques implemented in the project, detailed information on the informed consent procedures in regard to data processing, templates of the informed consent forms and information sheets.
• Human participants (recruitment and identification, consent procedures, consent/assent forms and information sheets)
• Also other legal issues will be assigned the project assistant, as follow up IP issues or other issues related to the consortium agreement

Proposal management:


• Network for creating new consortiums, pitching project ideas, collecting contacts at brokerage events, contact new potential partners, organize meetings with new partners, etc.
• Coordinate beneficiaries and chairing consortia meetings on legal issues
• Collect participant data
• Write certain parts as the management section and work packages in European proposals,
• Start up new projects

Qualification requirements
The applicant is required to have:


• At least a University degree in Law.
• Documented experiences from
• Preparing Consortium agreements with ITEA, DESCA and ECSEL templates
• Negotiating consortium agreements
• Dealing with IP issues in existing projects
• Preparing H2020 proposals
• H2020 project reporting
• Legal aspects of ERASMUS+ proposals

Applicants need to be highly motivated and fluent in English both written and spoken. Decisive importance is attached to personal suitability, social skills and team work ability are required.  We value the qualities that an even distribution of age and gender, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, can contribute to the organization.

Decisive importance is attached to personal suitability. We value the qualities that an even distribution of age and gender, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, can contribute to the organization.

Merit
Knowledge of several languages is a merit.

Application
Application is made online. Make your application by clicking the "Apply" button below.

The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete in accordance with the advertisement and will reach the University no later than closing date for application.

We look forward to receiving your application.


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