TDCC-LSH Project Coordinator & community coördinator Health (0.8 - 1.0 fte)

Would you like to contribute to promoting digital competences in the health and life sciences domain? Are you the spider in the web who connects initiatives and people and can move new project ideas forward? Do you have knowledge of FAIR and data-driven health and life sciences research? Health-RI has a vacancy for a project coordinator and community coordinator for the Thematic Digital Competence Centre Life Sciences & Health (TDCC-LSH).   

About Health-RI 
Health-RI realises a health data infrastructure for research, policy and innovation in the Netherlands. Availability and reuse of health data are important to enable researchers, healthcare professionals and also companies to work better and faster in a data-driven way. Health-RI does not do this alone. Health-RI works together with many stakeholders, ranging from citizens and patients, (academic) hospitals to umbrella organisations, governments and industry. We work together with these stakeholders in various projects to realise the health data infrastructure. Thus, together with all stakeholders in the health data ecosystem, we contribute to improving the health of all Dutch citizens. 

We are working to enable a learning healthcare system by promoting FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles. As a national coordination centre, we promote cooperation between stakeholders in the health and life sciences ecosystem. We support researchers and participate in international initiatives to ensure global interoperability.   

Health-RI has received a €69 million grant from the National Growth Fund in 2021 to realise these ambitions in the coming years, with the aim of sustainably setting up and funding the health data infrastructure in the Netherlands.  We also receive funding from NWO as part of the Implementation Plan Investments Digital Research Infrastructure and the Open Science NL work programme. 
 
Core values  of Health-RI are transparent, ambitious, result-oriented, socially engaged, collegial and inclusive. 

TDCCLSH  
The Thematic Digital Competence Centre Life Sciences and Health (TDCC-LSH) is an NWO-funded programme aimed at strengthening and harmonising digital research practices in the broad Dutch research domain of life sciences and biomedical and health sciences. Health-RI coordinates TDCC LSH. More information can be found on the TDCC website.

 Your role  
As a member of the TDCC-LSH team, you will be part of the broad, dynamic Health-RI data team. You will coordinate the TDCC-LSH FAIR LSH fellowship programme and function as TDCC-LSH community coordinator for the health domain. The TDCC-LSH fellowship programme aims to increase the knowledge needed to carefully manage digital data and, if possible, make it reusable for follow-up research. Fellows from research institutions will be invited to work for a year under the guidance of coaches (experts from the LSH field) on their own use cases that contribute to the TDCC-LSH ambitions in the field of FAIR data stewardship and FAIR implementation in the health and life sciences domain. The fellows will follow a training programme set up by the coaches under the guidance of a training coordinator. The solutions developed will be widely shared so that they benefit the entire LSH field. As coordinator, you will ensure the implementation of the fellowship programme according to the project plan and coordinate with all stakeholders. You will work closely with the training coordinator of the fellowship programme and be accountable to the network manager of TDCC-LSH. 

In addition, together with the TDCC-LSH community coordinator for life sciences, you take care of building and maintaining the (inter)national stakeholder network in data-driven life sciences and health research. You bring parties together and facilitate the further development of project ideas that contribute to the ambitions of TDCC-LSH. You contribute to the execution of TDCC-LSH project funding calls and you support assigned projects in realising their network and dissemination activities. You ensure that the network is well informed about the activities of TDCC-LSH and you collaborate with colleagues from the TDCCs in the other domains (SSH and NES) on the shared objectives. 

Your profile 

We are looking for someone:  

• With knowledge of and experience in data-driven research in the health and life sciences;
• With proven experience in project management and/or coordination and in research support in an academic environment;
• With experience in FAIR datastewardship and knowledge of the RDM landscape in the Netherlands;
• With proven experience in dealing with diverse stakeholders in complex, multidisciplinary collaborations;
• who is steadfast, persuasive and strategic;
• With strong communication and social skills and experience in community management;
• With the ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment;
• With a fluent command of English and Dutch. 

Your tasks 

• Project management of the TDCC-LSH fellowship programme, including reporting and communicating project results and budget.
• Coordinating with project partners and liaising with fellows, their institutions and coaches.
• Recruit the fellows and conclude the contracts with their institutions.
• Monitor progress of fellows' projects and deployment of the coaches'
• Support the fellows in the dissemination and further adoption of the results of the programme.
• Build and maintain contacts with local Digital Competence Centres (LDCCs), research groups and domain specialists.
• Connecting people and identifying opportunities for collaboration, harmonisation and joint solutions.
• Organising networking and community building activities.
• Co-manage TDCC-LSH Project call process and co-organise TDCC-LSH programme board meetings and other strategic meetings.
• Provide effective communication to all stakeholders. 

Our offer 
We offer you a job in a young and dynamic scale-up organisation. A place where you can really contribute to social impact. Our office is located in the Beatrix Building in Utrecht, within walking distance of Utrecht Central Station. You can work hybrid, although we do expect you to come to the office more than half the time. You will be compensated for travel and for working from home. We offer you an employment contract for the duration of 1 year with the prospect of extension.  We have a 38-hour working week, 232 holiday hours (almost 6 weeks) when working full-time, are affiliated for pension with ABP and have an 8% holiday allowance in May and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. Based on education and experience, the position is graded in scale 10-11 of the NFU CAO.    

Procedure 
Are you the project coordinator & community coordinator we are looking for? Then apply now and send your CV with cover letter by 15 April by e-mail to recruitment@health-ri.nl. 

After closing, we will make an initial selection based on the responses received. The procedure consists of two job interviews, checking references, an assessment if applicable and the ability to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG). This procedure ends with an employment interview. We will retain your details for up to three months after the closing date.    

For more information about the vacancy, please contact recruitment@health-ri.nl and for substantive questions about the work please contact  Celia van Gelder (celia.vangelder@health-ri.nl).  

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.