We seek a skilled and motivated research manager with excellent communication skills to provide support in developing the research programme of the Research Group Business and Law, in particular for the overarching research themes of digitalization and/or sustainability.
- You will stimulate external research funding acquisition and support other activities within the research group, allowing its research program to flourish and grow, while helping to create a dynamic and stimulating work environment that catalyzes collaborative research. To that end, you will work closely together with the research group director (prof. dr. Wouter Verheyen) and the steering committee (including all professorial staff).
- You inform, guide and provide support in planning, attracting and managing external funding for research and innovation.
- You are proactive in designing and writing project applications and bring together national and international partners to this end. In particular, you facilitate multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, suggesting collaborations and synergies inside and outside the research group.
- To stimulate the information flow and create cohesion within the research group, you will help to organize seminars and workshops, and prepare and participate in the research group’s strategic meetings in which you and the promoters will prepare and coordinate the group’s research strategy.
- You will facilitate international collaboration, summer schools and research stays by external researchers within the research group (e.g. by advertising FWO and Marie Curie grant possibilities on international forums and international calls).
- To maximize the dissemination of project results, and to increase visibility of the research group, you will help to develop and implement an active communication strategy towards the general public as well as relevant actors and stakeholders (e.g. policy makers and public sector actors, societal and business interests and media).
- You are prepared to take up a limited teaching assignment (e.g. a (methodological) course unit in one of the master programmes and assessing master theses).
- You take on internal and external assignments of scientific and social service.
In your role, you take instructions and regulations into account with a view to achieving predefined objectives.