to support in particular the organizational 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 low-carbon, 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 million 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 full, or 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, Economics, or Technical Sciences
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 organization, 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