Project Manager

Type of employment: Limit of tenure, 10 months
Extent: 50 %
Location: Department of Technology and Society, Lund
First day of employment: 1st of February, 2014
Official Records Number: LTHPA 2013/1242

Job assignments

- Initiating then managing research projects
- Managing and driving forward a large scale research definition process
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
- Helping to manage research project groups
- Reporting to K2 board, as well as to other colleagues on its management team
- Helping to build the centre
- Informal supervision of PhD students


Qualifications

Formal qualifications needed Master's degree, preferably in a discipline such as Transport Planning, Spatial Planning, Applied Economics, Human Geography or Real Estate; or experience and qualifications that in sum are equivalent to a Master's degree.

Skills and experience needed

Essential:
- Able to lead and run research or similar projects; experience of having done so - Able to initiate and secure financing for projects; experience of having done so
- Able to represent K2 and university in contacts with external stakeholders
- Knowledge and understanding of public transport industry in Sweden, and its challenges
- Excellent communication skills, including ability to carry out training sessions for people working in industry
- Excellent written and spoken English

Desirable:
- Extensive contact network in public transport in Sweden
- Experience of developing programmes of research projects
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- PhD in a relevant subject