Scientific & innovation coordinator - DTU Health Tech

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet; Ørsted; On-site; DKK 550,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

DTU Healthtech at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet in Lyngby, Denmark, invites applications for a full-time, 3-year role coordinating EXOAIM and spin-out activities. You will align partners, track progress, manage deliverables, and ensure clear communication across stakeholders.

The role emphasizes coordinating workshops, meetings, and visibility of the project within and beyond the department, with a strong focus on collaboration and proactive stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• MSc, PhD or equivalent in a STEM discipline or project management.
• Proven track record coordinating multi‑partner research projects. Experience with spin‑outs, tech‑transfer or commercialization is desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Experienced presenting to technical and non‑technical stakeholders, funders and investors.
• Experience running meetings and workshops, managing stakeholder engagement plans, and maintaining project control processes.
• Collaborative, proactive and adept at managing competing priorities across teams.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain integrated project plans for EXOAIM and spin-out activities.
• Define milestones, dependencies, and resource allocations, update timelines and communicate changes to partners.
• Define deliverable templates and quality checkpoints, collect, review, consolidate inputs.
• Ensure timely submission of reports and milestones to funders and stakeholders.
• Plan, schedule and run cross-partner technical and management meetings, focused workshops, training sessions and steering committee meetings.
• Prepare agendas, circulate pre-reads, capture minutes and action lists, and drive closure of actions.
• Monitor equipment, coordinate purchase requests, shared facility bookings and provide technical and scientific support.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Meeting facilitation

Project coordination

Team collaboration

Education

MSc, PhD or equivalent

Job description

You will take primary responsibility for coordinating the scientific and innovation activities across our new EU project EXOAIM and providing coordination support for up-coming spin‑out. While you will interface with technical teams working on flexible electronics, energy storage and transistors the role’s core focus is program coordination, aligning partners, tracking progress, managing deliverables, and ensuring clear, timely communication across stakeholders. You will be a visible, engaged member of the department—attending section meetings, facilitating teamwork, and participating in social and networking events. You will coordinate workshops, and overseeing the project’s visibility within and beyond the department. You will also be a visible, engaged member of the department - attending section meetings, facilitating teamwork, and participating in social and networking events.

Primary responsibilities

• Project planning and scheduling. Create and maintain integrated project plans for EXOAIM and spin-out activities.
• Define milestones, dependencies, and resource allocations, update timelines and communicate changes to partners.
• Define deliverable templates and quality checkpoints, collect, review, consolidate inputs
• Ensure timely submission of reports and milestones to funders and stakeholders.
• Plan, schedule and run cross‑partner technical and management meetings, focused workshops, training sessions and steering committee meetings.
• Prepare agendas, circulate pre‑reads, capture minutes and action lists, and drive closure of actions.
• Monitor equipment, coordinate purchase requests, shared facility bookings and provide technical and scientific support.

Qualifications & experience

• MSc, PhD or equivalent experience in a STEM discipline or project management.
• Proven track record coordinating multi‑partner research projects. Experience with spin‑outs, tech‑transfer or commercialization is desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Experienced presenting to technical and non‑technical stakeholders, funders and investors.
• Experience running meetings and workshops, managing stakeholder engagement plans, and maintaining project control processes.
• Collaborative, proactive and adept at managing competing priorities across teams.

Our expectations of you

• Visible, approachable and a team player.
• Able to drive meetings and workshops to clear outcomes.
• Detail‑oriented, reliable and solutions‑focused.

What we offer in return

We offer an interesting and challenging job in an international atmosphere with the focus on research, teaching, innovation and scientific advice for the benefit of the surrounding community. We place emphasis on a high level of professionalism among our staff, so skills development is an integral part of our organization. We offer a great flexibility in the position. In the area of technical and natural sciences, DTU is one of the leading research and education institutions in Europe

Salary and appointment terms

Salary and appointment terms are in accordance with the OAO-S Joint Agreement and the organization agreement for Office Clerks, Laboratory Technicians and IT staff (HK/stat). In addition, supplements can be negotiated in accordance with DTU’s salary structure for clerical employees OR laboratory technicians: https://www.inside.dtu.dk/en/human-resources/during-employment/salary/salary-structures

or

The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). In addition, supplements can be negotiated in accordance with DTU’s salary structure for academic staff employed in technical-administrative positions at DTU (AC TAP): https://www.inside.dtu.dk/en/human-resources/during-employment/salary/salary-structures

The position is a full-time 3 year position. Starting date is 1 October 2026 (or according to mutual agreement).

The workplace is DTU Lyngby Campus at the institute of health technology.

Location

Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

DTU Healthtech

DTU Healthtech is a research department at the Technical University of Denmark focused on translating engineering and life‑science research into medical technologies. It brings together experts in biomedical engineering, diagnostics, medical devices, materials and digital health to develop, validate and commercialize solutions that improve healthcare. The unit combines interdisciplinary research, close industry partnerships, clinical collaborations and support for entrepreneurship and spin‑outs.

DTU – For the benefit of society since 1829

DTU is one of Europe's leading elite technical universities. Through research and education at an international top level, we create solutions to the major societal challenges of our time and help secure Europe's global leadership in sustainable technological development. Since Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU almost 200 years ago, our mission has remained the same: We develop and create value through the natural and technical sciences for the benefit of society. DTU has 13,800 students, 1,600 PhD students, and 6,500 employees. We work in an international environment and have an inclusive, stimulating, and informal work culture. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland and collaborates with the best universities around the world.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open‑source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.