Scientific Officer - National Facilities Access Milano

Scientific Officer - National Facilities Access
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: October 7th 2024

The Human Technopole (HT) is an interdisciplinary research institute, created and supported by the Italian government, whose aim is to develop innovative strategies to promote human health and healthy aging through a multidisciplinary and integrated approach, combining genomics, computational biology, structural biology, neuroscience and health data science. HT scientists work together to enable interdisciplinary research and to create an open, collaborative environment to help promote life science research nationally and internationally. In line with its mission to serve the research community at large, HT operates National Facilities, specifically aimed at making HT's technologies, methods and tools available to the national scientific community.

HT's User Access Office is responsible for managing the access of external Users to HT's National Facilities, including through the coordination of the _Convenzione_'s provisions in terms of identification of national community needs, publication of open calls for access and evaluation of user access requests, by supporting the Standing Independent Evaluation Committee (SIEC).

Human Technopole is looking for a motivated, fast learning **Scientific Officer - National Facilities Access **to support the starting activities of the office, including the set-up of the access procedures and related documentation and the management of the pilot call for access.

**Your main tasks and responsibilities**:

- Provide support in Setting up and managing the User Access management system, including supervision of projects in terms of status and fulfillment of administrative steps. ;

- Preparation of documents and workflows related to Physical and non-physical User Access;

- Organizing the kick-off meeting and coordinating the finalization and signature of the Access Agreement;

- Assist the cooordination of the physical Access of external researchers to the National Facilities, inlcuding the onboarding;

- Liaising with relevant stakeholders when Access includes a research collaboration between the parties;

- Actively manage the set up and the update of the NF webpage as requested by the Convenzione;

- Support National Facility Heads and Managers in managing logístical aspects of user access;

- Organise meetings and/or events to promote the offer of the National Facilities;

- Help develop tools and methods to assess the impact of National Facility activities.

**Mandatory requirements

- University degree in life sciences or other relevant field;

- Experience in the academic and/or life sciences sector, nationally and internationally;

- Familiarity with core facility access procedures;

- Experience in at least one of the technology fields relevant to HT National Facilities;

- Experience with management of scientific projects;

- Fluency in English.

**Preferred requirements

- PhD degree in life sciences or other relevant field;

- Knowledge of Italian.

**Organizational and social skills

- Pro-active attitude;

- Team player;

- Fast learner;

- Good written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills;

- Good problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills;

- Good negotiation and conflict resolution attitude;

- Ability to work independently, manage deadlines and changing priorities;

- Strong attention to detail.

**Application instruction

- a full CV in English

- a motivation letter in English

- names and contacts of two referees

**WHY HUMAN TECHNOPOLE?

- HT seeks for **scientific excellence**, we recruit the best scientific talents through international, open calls and meritocratic selection procedures.

- Our working environment is **international**, **friendly** and **inclusive**. Our scientists **work together across disciplines** on research topics of biomedical relevance, **leveraging synergies** between their diverse skillsets and methodological approaches.

- We believe that **highly diverse teams yield the best and most innovative results. **:

- We engage in **outward-facing scientific activities** aimed at benefiting the national and international **research community. **Training is also at the heart of our activity, with initiatives and opportunities for our staff, including scientific courses, conferences and workshops.

**Main** **benefits

- Welfare plans

- Canteen service

- Work-life balance provisions

- Italian language training for foreigners

- Parental leave up to 1 year and other support for new parents

- Counseling

**Number of positions offered**: 1

**The position is based in **Milan

**Contract offered**: CCNL Chimico Farmaceutico, Fixed-term - 2 years with possibility of a permanent role at the end of the term - Employee level