EU Funding Specialist

Introduction

Do you have experience in writing EU Funding and Tenders such as HORIZON, Erasmus+, Daphne, EUAid, EU4Health, European Social Fund+, European Solidarity Corps, Justice Programme, Citizens, Equality, Rights and Value Programme, Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, Humanitarian Aid, and EU Aid? You will be responsible for the overall administration and management support of EU-funded projects and actively contribute to preparing new EU project proposals.

Duties and Responsibilities

Proposal Writing

• Mapping of EU and international funding opportunities and private investors funding.
• Conducting research, analysis and documentation.
• Design EU and international projects.
• Consortium-building, introduction to relevant consortia and partners’ recruitment for EU funding applications.
• Writing EU project proposals including scientific excellence, societal impact and project implementation, budget, deliverables and planning.
• Submission of EU project proposals.

Project Management

• Lead on the successful implementation of EU project deliverables and develop and manage an implementation timetable to ensure delivery of project targets to a high quality and within the contracted timeframe and budget.
• Plan project activities, supporting project leads to ensure detailed project implementation plans are in place, understood by team members and effectively implemented as scheduled.
• Track progress against programme objectives, ensuring full completion as per programme work plans.
• Ensure effective systems to monitor and evaluate the quality of project delivery are in place.
• Develop and oversee implementation of comprehensive and cost-effective project visibility and communication strategies, reaching out to all project stakeholders.
• Ensure quality reporting of project achievements and documenting best practices and lessons learned in the course of implementation.
• Work closely with support departments (Finance and ΙΤ) to ensure adequate support for project delivery.

Budget Management

• Be responsible for designated project budgets, including monitoring expenditure against budget lines and ensuring funds are appropriately utilised in meeting project objectives.

Qualification

• Academic background in International or another relevant field with a Bachelor’s or/and preferably a Master’s degree. Those without academic qualifications, but with a vast experience of grant writing, are welcome to apply. We will discuss this during the interview.

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of EU policy and decisions about education, social issues, technology, environment, territorial cooperation etc.
• Responsibility, consistency and adherence to strict deadlines.
• Proven track record in drafting and implementing USAID-funded projects with at least 5 years of experience.
• Administrative, organisational and communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a can-do attitude.
• Intercultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Good problem solver, enjoying the variety and delivering efficient, scalable, and project focused solutions.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work on own initiative.
• A drive to achieve quality in all aspects of the role

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English (both written and oral).
• Knowledge of a second language such as French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian is an asset.

Technological Awareness:

• Fluency in office software, email, web-based applications and databases.
• Command of social media.
• Actively seeks to apply technology to appropriate tasks.