Strategic Funding Proposals Lead - Hybrid

Irish Manufacturing Research Ltd.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 67.000 - 69.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive salary and pension

State-of-the-art Innovation Centres

Friendly and flexible working環境

Zusammenfassung

Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) is seeking a Competitive Funding Programme Manager to lead European and national funding proposals on a 23-month contract, coordinating with technical leads and management to align with IMR goals.

You will manage timelines, assess opportunities, and oversee the proposal content, budget, and consortium coordination, helping strengthen IMR's funding capability and deliver high-impact projects.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in a relevant technical, scientific or business discipline (Master’s an advantage).
• A minimum of 5 years' experience preparing and submitting proposals to competitive funding programmes in Europe and/or Ireland, with a track record of successful proposals.
• Experience in coordinating a European proposal is desirable.
• Proven ability to manage multiple proposals and deadlines at the same time, working effectively within cross functional teams.
• An existing network, or demonstrated ability to build relationships, across European and Irish research and industry ecosystems.
• Confident with AI-enabled tools to support proposal development, research synthesis, evidence gathering, review workflows, knowledge management and reusable content development.
• Excellent written, verbal, client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience in building productive partner relationships across disciplines and cultures, and between research organisations and industry.

Aufgaben

• Manage the development of European and National funding proposals, in close cooperation with the Competitive Funding team, technical leads and Senior Management, to ensure proposal scope aligns with IMR business objectives.
• Identify, assess and propose relevant European and National funding opportunities in IMR technology focus areas, and prepare information to support go/no-go decisions.
• Plan and manage proposal timelines and maintain the shared competitive funding pipeline, interpreting call documentation and funding rules, checking eligibility and funding conditions, and coordinating inputs and review points so submissions are complete, compliant and on time.
• Take ownership of impact, implementation, work plan and budget sections, while working with technical leads to shape, edit and consolidate input into a coherent, high-quality proposal.
• Maintain and improve IMR's competitive funding toolkit, including proposal workflows, templates, review processes, evidence libraries and lessons learned from evaluator feedback.
• Engage with partners, clients, funders and consortium members during proposal development, and manage day-to-day consortium coordination on selected proposals.
• Support grant agreement preparation for successful proposals and manage a structured handover to the project team, after which responsibility for delivery moves to the project lead.
• Work with the Competitive Funding team and relevant leadership stakeholders to support delivery of IMR's competitive funding priorities.

Kenntnisse

Proposal development

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Deadline management

Networking across European and Irish

Excellent communication

AI-enabled tools

Ausbildung

Degree in technical/scientific/business discipline

Tools

AI-enabled tools

Jobbeschreibung

Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) is seeking a Competitive Funding Programme Manager to lead European and national funding proposals on a 23-month contract, coordinating with technical leads and management to align with IMR goals.

You will manage timelines, assess opportunities, and oversee the proposal content, budget, and consortium coordination, helping strengthen IMR's funding capability and deliver high-impact projects.