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Grant Writing Project Manager

Fixed-term / Temporary(1 to 3 months)
Paris
Salary: Not specified
Starting date: November 01, 2020
No remote work
Experience: > 2 years
Education: BAC+3

Learning Planet Institute
Learning Planet Institute

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CRI Research Collaboratory is a research unit of INSERM and University of Paris (UMR U1284), working at the crossroads of life, learning, and digital sciences.
Founded in the spirit of facilitating the transition from closed scientific enquiry to a more open model we aim to transcending barriers between disciplines, science and the society.
We foster research at crossroads between interdisciplinary life and health sciences, basic understanding of learning processes and novel education technology/methodology testing and implementation, and digital sciences.

The CRI Collaboratory (Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity -, Universite de Paris) will be applying to the EU H2020 Green Deal Call in the Area 10 (see more info here). We received a National Research Agency (ANR) grant to support the preparation of the grant application and already secured key partners (e.g. University College London, University of Geneva, JoGL and European Citizen Science Association). The deadline for the funding call is 26/1/2021.
We are looking for a full time person, who could start as soon as possible, to work on consolidating the consortium and grant writing.

Tasks :

 Coordinate grant writing with a coherent set of work packages, tasks and deliverables to be distributed between the partners
 Co-Writing and editing sections of the project proposal
 Merging and synthesizing the text written by others
 Formatting the text and data to confirm with submission rules
 Being in constant contact with the partners to assure efficient information flow
 Collecting needed information from the partners The person would work directly with Dusan Misevic, Director of Research Affairs at CRI, with interactions with Ariel Lindner, CRI co-founder and Research Director and project partners.

Due to the very short timeline, we will only consider candidates who have a valid working permit for France, or are EU citizens.


Preferred experience

Skills needed

 Prior experience in writing EU grants and in assembling consortiums to respond to project calls is essential
 Attention to detail, punctuality, being good at keeping deadlines, working under pressure, working in a team
 Excellent command of online collaborative tools (Google Docs, Slack, etc).
 Excellent command of written and spoken English
 Interest in Sustainable Development Goals, Open/Citizen Science, Sustainability is a plus

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