Project Manager for Aalto Networking Platform

Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 13 000 students, 400 professors and close to 4 500 other faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community. 

 

We are looking for a Project Manager for Aalto Networking Platform  
 
The Aalto Networking Platform team is part of Aalto's Research Services. It supports and brings together the seven key research areas of Aalto University, which are digitalization, health, materials, energy, living environments, arts and design, and business. The Aalto Networking Platform combines the expertise of Aalto's different schools and departments so that Aalto may solve global challenges and build a sustainable future. We are now looking for experts to represent and support especially health, arts and design, materials and business key research areas. 

 

Your duties include  
 
The task of the Project Manager is to act as a contact person in one or a few key research areas and to organize activities that strengthen these key research areas and help smaller research initiatives grow larger. As a Project Manager, you promote the visibility of multiple research areas and cooperation between Aalto researchers, and you also maintain good relationships with external partners. You act as a contact point and mediator for external and internal communication and networking and community building. You help newly recruited professors find collaborators. You also participate in the development of Aalto's multidisciplinary activities in general. You work in a team of platform managers, each of whom has expertise in a few of the abovementioned key research areas, so that in total the team covers all seven areas. 
 
The task may also include other tasks depending on your skills and experience. 

 

We expect from you  

• Doctoral degree from one of Aalto University's seven key research areas  

• Solid understanding of research activities and its support processes   

• Cooperation skills, networking ability and service orientation 

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills  

• Ability to work in a matrix organization   

• Excellent communication skills   

• Fluent written and spoken English and basic Finnish language skills (capability to follow meetings and events in Finnish) 

You are flexible and open to new things and communicate actively. You can keep many balls in the air at the same time and make sure things get done by the deadline. We appreciate previous experience in organizing events (e.g. being on stage and acting as a host) and maintaining communication channels and web interfaces with the team's Communication and Event Coordinator. 

  

What we offer 

• The opportunity to work in a dynamic community of world-class researchers and professionals. 

• Meaningful and inspiring environment. We are proud of our purpose to shape a sustainable future. We spark the game changers of tomorrow, and renew society with research-based knowledge, creativity and an entrepreneurial mindset. 

• A work culture where everyone is valued. Our work is guided by the university's values ​​of responsibility, courage and collaboration. We want to be an open community where equality and inclusion enable curiosity, innovation, collaboration and wellbeing. 

• Great possibilities for competence development and learning. We try to utilize the strengths and passions of every Aalto member in the best possible way. We help each other succeed, focusing on community and people, learning new things from each other. Together we can make a difference. 

 

We work in a hybrid way, and the primary workplace is Otaniemi, Espoo. The Otaniemi campus is a thriving and connected community of 100 nationalities, 13,000 students and 4,500 employees. Life at the transformed campus is vibrant and filled with amazing architecture, calming nature, and a variety of cafes, restaurants, services and good connections along the recently opened metro line.  
 
The position is permanent, and your employment contract can be full-time or part-time (50%). 

 

Interested? 

 
If you want to join us, please submit your application through Aalto’s recruitment system as soon as possible, but no later than 9th of October, 2024. Please attach your CV and a cover letter describing how your skills and experience match this position's requirements.  

 

If you are an Aalto employee or visitor, please apply for a position through the Workday system (internal jobs).  
 
For more information, please contact the Head of Platform Services, Krisztina Cziner,  tel. +358 50 316 1028. She is available to take phone calls during the following timeslots:  

• Wednesday, 25th of September, from 13:00 to 15:00 

• Monday, 30th of September, from 10 to 11  

• Friday, 4th of October, from 13 to 14  

 

HR Partner Kirsi Söderlund, [email protected], tel. +358 050 338 7437, may also help you with questions related to the recruitment process.  

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