Coordinator of European AI-Ecosystem Development

Coordinator of European AI-Ecosystem Development

• Initiating and organizing participation of industrial and SME partners in the program (including through workshops, sponsorship, and general communications);
• Supporting the involvement of industry and SME-players and representatives in other activities in the network where requested;
• Encouraging and supporting the adoption of AI technologies by supporting regional ecosystems to boost high-tech, high-performance innovation;
• Communicating and disseminating the project’s vision and progress to the general public, industry at large, educational institutions, other regional hotspots, and other EU projects;
• Monitoring and administrating progress towards overall project deliverables and goals, while ensuring smooth communication with the projects’ central coordinators and other stakeholders in the projects;
• Keeping up to date with the Amsterdam AI ecosystem, identifying synergies and overlap when possible, and acting on opportunities to establish joint activities or collaborations.

• Responsible for the tracking of the overall progress of the projects towards their deliverables and goals while ensuring smooth communication with the coordinators and the stakeholders of the project;
• Responsible for budget monitoring (in collaboration with financial controllers);
• Managing periodic reporting and support the partners of your work package for the preparation of amendments;
• Initiating and organizing project meetings;
• Responsible for coordination and stakeholder management (broad variety of multiple internal and external stakeholders);
• Actively supporting external communication and dissemination activities;
• Proactively identifying synergies and overlap when possible, and acting on opportunities to establish joint activities or collaborations;
• Develop two reports for the AI ecosystem in Europe; and
• Develop and organise events and workshops that facilitate the collaboration between different European key stakeholders.

• has completed academic training (Master), preferably in business administration, communications, international relations, or similar;
• has experience in project management, ideally in an international (research or educational) setting;
• has very good organizational qualities and process insight;
• has a profound level of cultural sensitivity and diplomacy;
• feels comfortable working with a diverse and complex network of stakeholders;
• can work independently and proactively, especially to identify synergies between initiatives as this role is highly collaborative with other projects both local and international;
• is process-driven and can take ownership of an entire process from ideation to execution;
• has excellent communication skills, with capacity to produce written progress reports to a high standard of quality;
• has an excellent command of the English language both spoken and written; and
• is willing to travel across Europe.

• 232 holiday hours per year (based on fulltime) and extra holidays between Christmas and 1 January;
• Multiple courses to follow from our Teaching and Learning Centre;
• Multiple courses on topics such as leadership for academic staff;
• Multiple courses on topics such as time management, handling stress and an online learning platform with 100+ different courses;
• 7 weeks birth leave (partner leave) with 100% salary;
• Partly paid parental leave;
• The possibility to set up a workplace at home;
• A pension at ABP for which UvA pays two third part of the contribution;
• The possibility to follow courses to learn Dutch.

• Prof. dr. Cees Snoek.

• A detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience;
• A letter of motivation.