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Social & Creative project – External expert call

(edit: deadline for applications has been extended until 30th of January 2021 – please consult the announcement on the extended open call – https://enoll.org/newsroom/?news-id=9299

 

Assignment title: External Expert Engagement Coordinator

Assignment duration: February 2021– June 2021
Type of contract:
Service contract (100 hours per month)
Preferred starting date: 
01 February 2021  (potentially contract to be extended based on the project’s needs)

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2021 (edit: extended)

Call published on: 29 December 2020

 

About Social & Creative

Social & Creative project under the Interreg MED Programme on ENoLL’s Project Portfolio. The project is currently on its first year of activity out of three years. Social & Creative aims to promote trans-local innovation clusters for creative and social innovation by providing instruments that allow trans-national MED modular projects to connect with local innovation communities, starting from the regions of participating partners. See website for more information: https://social-and-creative.interreg-med.eu/

 

Role Specification

ENoLL Office is looking for an External Expert Engagement Coordinator to join our international team with the focus of successfully implementing goals and objectives of the Social & Creative project. The expert will work under the guidance of the ENoLL Office and will regularly report to assigned supervisor as well as compliment activities of ENoLL Office. The expert will need to coordinate between the horizontal projects, the consortium, other external experts and the ENoLL office and will have a significant role in project development.

 

 

Key responsibilities:

  • Actively contributing to transferring[1] and capitalizing[2] project outputs
  • Coordination of Working Groups and liaison with the ENoLL Office and project partners with regards to set-up, running and reporting of the activity. Alignment with activities of ENoLL.
  • Coordination of the Transferring Focus Groups and liaison with the ENoLL Office and project partners with regards to set-up, running and reporting of the activity
  • Coordination of the Evidence based policy making task and supervision of production of five innovative policy templates
  • Support in the preparation of the Joint Summer School
  • Support ENoLL Office and project partners in advocating policy change.
  • Timely production of results and meeting deliverable deadlines
  • Regular reporting to supervisor from the ENoLL Office. Coordination of activities together with the ENoLL Office and when necessary project partners
  • Attendance at monthly reporting meetings with project partners, as well as technical meetings when deemed necessary by the ENoLL Office

 

 

Person Specification

The successful candidate will balance excellent required technical, policy and advocacy skills in a multicultural context with the ability to execute its work in a team environment. The candidate will share ENoLL’s Vision and Values.

 

Qualifications & Knowledge

  • University degree in social sciences subject; advanced university degree will be of advantage
  • Good knowledge of management and reporting of working groups
  • Good knowledge of the Living Lab approach
  • Knowledge of the Cultural & Creative Industries policy domain, as well as the Social Innovation field
  • Very good understanding of co-creation and co-design methodologies
  • Knowledge of semantic technologies for knowledge management and user interfaces
  • Ability to produce clear and concise documents in a timely manner.

 

Experience

  • Proven track record in management of groups; experience with coordination of working groups is a plus
  • Experience in development and implementation of policy templates will be an asset
  • Liaison with senior experts and project partners
  • Experience with inter-regional or cross-border Living Labs
  • Previous experience with the InterregMED Programme will be an asset.
  • Good knowledge/track record of working in the Mediterranean Culture and creative community.

 

 

Skills

  • Capacity of distance collaboration and coordination of multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary work groups
  • Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and delegate tasks effectively
  • Strong analytical and research skills
  • Strong interpersonal and advocacy skills.
  • Confident and flexible, proactive and self-motivated, able to move easily between tasks
  • Capable networker, able to coordinate and operate effectively in partnerships
  • Positive and energetic approach towards work
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, for a variety of audiences and in a variety of settings, with the highest level of attention to detail
  • Excellent level of written and spoken English; Italian is an asset.
  • Capability to influence policy making.

 

Working Conditions

  • Duration: From 1 February 2021 until 30 June 2021 (100 hours per each month)
  • Remuneration: Based on experience, maximum 55 € per hour incl. all taxes
  • Location: teleworking
  • Travel: Travel might be necessary depending on need, within Europe.

 

How to apply
If you meet the requirements above and are interested in applying for this post, please send your CV and motivation letter in English, and any example of  your work in transferring[3]; capitalizing[4]; management of groups; policy and advocacy (if available) to [email protected] with “Application: Social & Creative External Expert” in the subject. Deadline for applications is 15th of January 2021. The interviews will be held in the following week.

In the cover letter, please explain your vision and how results from the Social & Creative InterregMED community could be brought to the wider Living Lab community.

(edit: application deadline extended until 30th of January 2021)

 

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[1] All used protocols and results must be transferable to the MED area and therefore, the actions must be reusable and/or adaptable.

[2] Organisation of data concerning the implementation of programmes, projects, their impacts, the methods used in order to make the accumulated experience usable for other programmes, projects or stakeholder groups.

[3] All used protocols and results must be transferable to the MED area and therefore, the actions must be reusable and/or adaptable.

[4] Organisation of data concerning the implementation of programmes, projects, their impacts, the methods used in order to make the accumulated experience usable for other programmes, projects or stakeholder groups.

 

 

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