Overview

EMBL-EBI Training Team has an opportunity for an experienced Scientific Project Officer or Scientific Project Manager for a 13-month absence cover. In this position you will play a key role in delivering an international portfolio of grant-funded projects, working at the intersection of science, training, project management and stakeholder engagement.

You will join a highly collaborative Training Team of around 20 colleagues, delivering face-to-face, virtual and online learning to a global audience. Work spans the life sciences and bioinformatics communities and includes major externally funded programmes involving training, facilitation, project management and community strengthening.

Delivery of activities may, on occasion, require work outside of normal office hours and may involve some international travel.

Your Role

• •Driving project delivery: managing plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, KPIs, budgets and reporting to keep projects on track, in collaboration with key colleagues across the organisation.
• •Working internationally: building productive relationships with project partners, funders, collaborators and stakeholders across EMBL-EBI and beyond.
• •Creating impactful training: co-developing, delivering and evaluating high-quality training and knowledge-exchange activities across face-to-face, virtual and on-demand formats.
• •Understanding community needs: conducting stakeholder and training-needs analysis, identifying emerging skills requirements and developing competency frameworks and communities around shared goals.
• •Coordinating collaborative work: supporting or leading work packages, meetings and working groups, ensuring decisions and actions translate into delivery.
• •Strengthening capability: contributing to train-the-trainer approaches, fellowships and participant-support activities, helping others develop their skills and expertise.
• •Supporting the wider community: engaging with ELIXIR and other relevant international activities.
• •Managing resources and quality: maintaining clear documentation and providing an orderly handover at the end of the absence-cover period, protecting continuity of project knowledge, decisions, relationships and next actions.

You will have the autonomy and responsibility appropriate to your experience, with the opportunity to take the lead on projects and guide colleagues where appropriate.

Grade Levels

The role may be appointed at Grade 5 (Scientific Project Officer) or Grade 6 (Scientific Project Manager).

• •At Grade 5, you will contribute to the coordination and delivery of assigned projects, working closely with colleagues and partners to ensure activities are delivered effectively.
• •At Grade 6, you will take greater independent ownership of assigned projects, with responsibility for coordinating delivery, budgets, risks, reporting and stakeholder relationships, and will be expected to lead project activities and provide guidance to colleagues where appropriate.

The final grade will reflect your experience, expertise, autonomy and demonstrated level of responsibility.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• •PhD or equivalent expertise in molecular life sciences or a related subject.
• •Significant experience contributing to or managing international grant-funded projects.
• •Demonstrable experience designing and delivering training, engagement or learning programmes for specific audiences across multiple formats.
• •Experience in stakeholder analysis, training-needs analysis and competency development.
• •Strong project management, organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• •Excellent communication, facilitation and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences and build effective relationships.
• •Experience using digital collaboration and project-management tools.
• •A commitment to building trust, setting realistic expectations and working collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• •Experience of community strengthening, train-the-trainer approaches, coaching or mentoring, outreach and communications.
• •Familiarity with European research infrastructures, ELIXIR or international research consortia.
• •Experience working with project budgets, forecasting and expenditure tracking.
• •Familiarity with bioinformatics tools and resources, Agile working or product ownership.
• •A teaching or training qualification.
• •A project management certificate or equivalent formal project-management training.

Contract and Salary

• •Contract length: 13 months (absence cover)
• •Salary: Grade 5 or 6, monthly salary from 3,452 or 3,861 GBP after tax plus generous benefits and allowances based on family circumstances.
• •Tentative interview dates: 1-2 October 2026.
• •Application closing date: 12 September 2026.

Benefits

• •Monthly family, child and non-resident allowances, annual salary review, pension scheme, death benefit, long-term care, accident-at-work and unemployment insurances.
• •Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• •Private medical insurance for you and your immediate family.
• •30 days annual leave per year plus public holidays.
• •Relocation package including installation grant if required.
• •Free shuttle bus, on-site library, subsidised gym and cafeteria, casual dress code, sports and social club activities.
• •On-site nursery, 10 days child sick leave, generous parental leave, holiday clubs and monthly family and child allowances.
• •Visa exemption, education grant for private schooling, financial support for travel to home country every second year and a monthly non-resident allowance for non-UK residents.