Centre Coordinator: DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability

Administration, community building and outreach

DTU’s Centre for Absolute Sustainability is looking for an outgoing and organised Centre Coordinator, to take the lead on administering the Centre, building our internal community, and spearheading our external outreach activities.

The job
We are looking for an academic new colleague with organisational competencies, to help us administer the Centre, plus a flair for communication and teamwork, to support the management and take the lead role in our internal and external community building and outreach activities.

Primary areas of responsibility will include:

• Supporting the centre management with the operational activities and management of the centre 
• Internal coordination and research community-building activities, including management of centre facilities and organisation of monthly Centre meetings for internal Centre staff and affiliated colleagues
• Planning and execution of the Centre’s outreach activities, including lunch seminars (ca. 10 per year), industry workshops (ca. 5 per year) and annual conference (ca. 200 delegates)
• Coordination of accounting and reporting of research projects and other related projects at the Centre
• Assisting with administrative duties for the Sustainability Dean, who is Chair of the Centre’s Steering Committee and Advisory Board

Our expectations of you
You have experience in coordinating projects and people, with respect to administrative, practical and organisational issues, and with respect to motivating and developing the team members. You have qualifications and/or experience within the field of sustainability, preferably with a relevant degree or similar qualifications, in order to be able to communicate with internal and external stakeholders and to organize, host & facilitate the Centre’s outreach events and activities. You enjoy working in a dynamic and fast developing environment and are able to prioritise and manage many tasks of different shapes, sizes and importance. You thrive amongst subject experts and enjoy helping to prepare them to communicate their research and expertise to others.

What we offer in return
The DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability offers collaboration with a highly purpose-driven team of colleagues, all of whom share a common goal to advance the scientific field, in collaboration with each other, internally, and to communicate this broadly to relevant societal stakeholders. Our team is highly diverse with respect to nationality, gender, age and interests. Our own ambitions and activities drive our everyday working life, and we look forward to welcoming a colleague who can help us to develop and coordinate these.

Salary and appointment terms
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

The period of employment is 3 years. 

Application and contact
Please submit your online application no later than Monday, 30 September 2024.  Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form and attach your motivated application, CV and exam certificates. 

If you would like additional information about the position, please contact Centre Lead, Professor Michael Z. Hauschild, via [email protected] , or Centre Co-Lead, Professor Tim C. McAloone, via [email protected] .

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, disability, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

The DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability is a cross-departmental initiative at DTU, bearing the mission of fostering research and innovation, to support fact-based strategic sustainability decision-making in Denmark and internationally. By bringing leading experts on assessment and engineering approaches together in an orchestrated collaboration, the Centre is strengthening and consolidating sustainability competencies at DTU and is enabling ground-breaking research results within technology-focused environmental sustainability transition.

Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.