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Country : Spain

Application Deadline : 17 Feb 2025 - 23 : 00 (Europe / Madrid)

Type of Contract : Other

Extra Information : Open-ended

Job Status : Part-time

Offer Starting Date : 27 Jan 2025

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe - ERC

Reference Number : 101125744

Offer Description

Position Overview : Starting in April 2025, Professor Manuel García Santana seeks to hire a part-time research project manager for his ERC-funded research project. The project manager will be responsible for the overall management of the project's funding, purchases, reporting, data management plans, and research dissemination, assisting the principal investigator and his research team.

Job Location

Barcelona (Spain), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Ciutadella Campus, Department of Economics and Business. The work is to be carried out at the campus.

Funding Body and Project

This contract is funded by the EU's Horizon Europe Programme, European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 'Government Intervention and the Macroeconomy : Micro-evidence on the Transmission of Government Procurement', 2025–2029, grant agreement ID : 101125744.

Professor Manuel García Santana (PhD CEMFI) is a Senior Economist at the World Bank and CEPR Research Fellow, Assistant Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (on leave), Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (on leave), and CREI Research Associate (on leave). His research focuses on understanding how trade, government policies, and market distortions affect aggregate productivity and welfare by changing the way resources are allocated across firms.

Responsibilities

• Assisting the Principal Investigator with hiring pre- and postdoctoral personnel for the project; managing their onboarding, preparing their timesheets, and supporting all team members throughout the project.
• Reporting (midterm, final, and financial reports).
• Arranging travel related to the project for the PI, research team members, visiting co-authors, and external collaborators.
• Addressing ethics issues (if any arise during the project's execution): assisting the PI with the ethics review process with UPF's institutional review board.
• Dissemination: managing social media; creating and maintaining the project website, as well as updating the CORDIS project website and designated sections for publications in the Funding and Tenders Portal; creating and/or updating the PI's academic profiles (e.g., Google Scholar, ResearchGate).