We're Hiring! EU Horizon Project Manager: Sustainability Tool & Best Practice Guidance Development

Thursday, 21 December, 2023

 

Home-based with monthly travel to Oxford and occasional travel within Europe.
Full-time post – 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £39,500 per annum
Fixed term position until 31 December 2027
Apply by: 11:55 pm on Sunday 14th January 2024
Interviews: 22nd January 2024
Start: 1 March 2024 or as soon as possible.

*Please note while this post is a re-adversitment of the 'EU Horizon Project Manager: Benchmarking Tool & Best Practice Guidance Development (WP5)' role, the JDPS document has since been updated* 

About the Horizon Europe Project: ‘KitNewCare’

The Horizon Europe initiative is the EU’s key funding programme for innovation and research to tackle climate change and achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. CSH is part of a consortium of organisations across the UK and EU that has been funded by Horizon Europe to develop and disseminate a model for sustainable healthcare. The ‘KitNewCare’ project will focus on the medical specialty of kidney care, due to its large disease burden (e.g. 10% of Europeans have impaired kidney function severe enough to impact their health status) and its significant resource footprint, particularly in the use of dialysis in clinical settings. The project comprises several inter-related work packages, with different organisations leading or contributing to each package. These include: developing the knowledge base of sustainability trends, costs, environmental hotspots and solutions in kidney care across the EU; piloting organisational and workflow optimisations and technological innovations to improve sustainability in kidney care; and upscaling, disseminating and implementing sustainable solutions identified through the development of guidance, toolkits and training resources. The main pilot sites of the project are in Poland, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.

About the role

The Project Manager for Sustainability Tool & Best Practice Guidance Development will be responsible for the successful delivery of Work Package 5 which focusses on the design and development of a sustainability benchmarking dashboard which measures clinical outcomes, environmental and social impact and costs (4-factors) of kidney care. This will include project planning, implementation and monitoring and managing the relevant milestones, deliverables and risk registers. WP5 will support and build on the project’s WP2 which will develop and implement a 4-factor life-cycle assessment model at the project’s 4 pilot sites, and WP3’s 4-factor impact evaluation of sustainable service improvements at these sites. The Project Manager will work closely with the project’s consortium members, including the software company and local project coordinators at the 4 clinical pilot sites (in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland) to design, pilot and evaluate the dashboard. In addition, they will be responsible for converting the results of the project into green kidney care guidelines. The project will provide many opportunities for the project manager to lead or contribute to academic publications.

Key responsibilities:

  • Project management of Work Package 5 (Sustainability Tool & Best Practice Guidance) of the Horizon Europe project on sustainable kidney care (KitNewCare).
  • Coordination with other Work Packages as required.
  • Supporting WP2 with the development of a 4-factor Life Cycle Assessment model and database which captures health outcomes, financial, environmental and social impacts (WP2).
  • Working as one of the analysts to apply the 4-factor Life Cycle Assessment model at the four project pilot sites (Utrecht, Modena, Madrid, Warsaw) (WP2 & 3).
  • Leading the design, technical development, implementation and validation of a sustainability benchmarking dashboard, based on the 4-factor Life Cycle Assessment model and database, including:
    • To set up and liaise with a stakeholder group to agree the patient outcome and sustainability metrics for the benchmarking tool.
    • To liaise with an online software provider to create the benchmarking tool.
    • To pilot and evaluate the benchmarking tool with the projects’ immediate and extended pilot sites.
  • Exploration of the transferability of the benchmarking dashboard to other specialties.
  • Development of a best practice guide for sustainable kidney care based on the findings of this project and existing guidance and research.
  • Contribute to dissemination of project outputs internally (to consortium partners) and externally, including through co-authoring of papers for publication and conference presentations.
  • Participation in consortium meetings and liaison and coordination of activities with the KitNewCare project manager and consortium members.

How To Apply

Please email a cover letter and CV to Info@sustainablehealthcare.org.uk.

Your cover letter should detail how you fit the Person Specification and be no longer than two pages long. Your application will be assessed solely by how well you fit these requirements and to what extent you demonstrate your experience and/or knowledge of the tasks you will be required to complete.

Closing date: 11:55 pm on Sunday 14th January 2024

Job reference code: EU Horizon Project Manager WP5

For any questions, please contact info@sustainablehealthcare.org.uk

 

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