A unique workplace at the heart of innovation on a university campus, in a role where you directly contribute to advancing sustainability in construction. An open-air laboratory where innovations for the built environment are put into practice. From smart facades to circular constructions and from solutions for a sustainably healthy indoor climate to innovative, sustainable energy systems. Innovations are tested, made visible, further developed, and validated in a realistic living and working environment.
Science, business, government, and society are connected to accelerate the transition from theory to practice.
What you do
- Initiate, guide, and realize innovation projects in practice.
- Collaborate with researchers, companies, governments, knowledge institutions, and startups on innovative solutions that contribute to sustainability in construction.
- Guide multiple innovation projects from preparation to completion.
- Initiate and develop subsidy projects, participate in consortia, and actively contribute to subsidy applications.
- Responsible for the execution of projects.
- Maintain contacts with partners and actively build a network.
- Identify new innovation opportunities and help advance them into concrete projects.
- Support the team in organizing meetings, demonstrations, workshops, and other activities related to innovations in sustainable building and renovation.
- Ensure good coordination between initiators, researchers, partners, and colleagues within the innovation center.
- Work within the Sustainable Building and Innovation team of the innovation center.
- Lead multiple innovation projects and fulfill a supportive and executive role within subsidy projects.
- Actively build a network of companies, knowledge institutions, and governments.
- Contribute to identifying and developing new innovation projects.
What they ask
- Academic working and thinking level, with a technical background (e.g., in architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering).
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in innovation or project management.
- Excellent command of the Dutch language.
- Demonstrable experience with project management and structured work.
- Demonstrable experience with sustainability and innovation in construction.
- Enthusiasm for the technical side of construction such as sustainable installation technology, building physics, load-bearing structures, and digitalization.
Wishes.
- Experience in acquiring project and research funding.
Profile
- Identifies opportunities and bottlenecks and addresses them independently.
- Communicatively skilled and knows how to engage people with ideas.
- Easily establishes contact and actively builds relationships and collaborations.
- Flexible, eager to learn, and feels at home in a dynamic innovation environment.
- Remains effective when plans change or circumstances are uncertain.
Practical
- The employment is temporarily externally funded.
- The position falls under a university center responsible for valorization.
- The work is diverse, ranging from advising on research funding to setting up large public-private partnerships.
- Involved in the development of a campus as an innovation ecosystem.
- Stimulates entrepreneurship, (inter)national collaboration, and strategic planning in the field of innovation.
- Activities may include research funding (NL and EU), intellectual property, public affairs, corporate innovations, campus development, projects, or innovation affairs.
How to apply
View the full assignment text and application details once your tailored application is ready.
Order a tailored application to view the full assignment and application details.
More context, less searching.
You get enough context to judge whether this job is relevant. The full brief, client details and next steps stay available inside the app.