PROJECT MANAGER

RECRUITMENT FOR PROJECT MANAGER

APPLICATION N. 10/2022- TRANSFORM

ForestWISE is a Collaborative Laboratory focused on forest and fire issues through the development of (co)research, innovation and knowledge transfer and technology activities. Our goal is to increase and improve sustainable forest management in Portugal, the competitiveness of the Portuguese forestry sector and to reduce negative consequences of large rural fires.

ForestWISE currently leads or participates in national and international large scale and impact projects in the forest and fire areas.

ForestWISE opens position for one Project Manager in the scope of the TransForm Green Agenda - Digital Transformation of the Forestry Sector for a Resilient and Low Carbon Economy, supported by the Component 5 - Promotion of Sustainable Bioeconomy (PRR | C5 Agenda Notice No. 02/C05-i01/2022), through European funds provided to Portugal by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), under the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM) of the European Union (EU), framed within the Next Generation UE, for the period from 2021-2026.

Position: PROJECT MANAGER – one position

Summary description of the function:

Under the supervision of the ForestWISE’s CTO and TransForm´s Director, the Administrative and Finance Manager will:

• Perform the technical monitoring of the activities and quality control of the deliverables set out under the Agenda TransForm in the context of forest production, operations and logistics;
• Support coordinators and consortium members in the technical projects’ management within the scope of forest production, operations and forest logistics;
• Support products and services acquisition processes from third parties, within the scope of the Agenda;
• Develop actions focused on research, knowledge creation and knowledge and technology transfer in the scope of forest production, operations and logistics, within the scope of the TransForm Agenda, namely bibliographical research, data collection in the field and data analysis using different software (R, SPSS or others);
• Prepare activity reports in the context of the Agenda;
• Promote and participate in ForestWISE’s communication, dissemination and knowledge transfer initiatives, associated with the project or others that may be relevant;
• Support the execution of other project management activities, including administrative and financial management and results communication and dissemination;
• Represent ForestWISE when requested.