Project Coordinator — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- fixed-term
- Posted
- 5 days ago
Role overview
Project Coordinator
60%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Division for Prosperity at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), and EPFL is seeking a Project Coordinator for ETEL-AI (Empowering Training, Education and Learning with AI).
- Project Coordinator
- 60%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
- Coordinate interfaces among trainers and facilitators, assignment-feedback staff, the technological and pedagogical expert, content-integration services and the research and engineering teams, ensuring that responsibilities and handovers are clear.
- Plan feedback and evaluation logistics for learners, trainers and program staff, and ensure that operational findings are converted into agreed improvements and tracked actions. Co-design and stakeholder engagement
Main responsibilities
- Coordinate interfaces among trainers and facilitators, assignment-feedback staff, the technological and pedagogical expert, content-integration services and the research and engineering teams, ensuring that responsibilities and handovers are clear.
- Plan feedback and evaluation logistics for learners, trainers and program staff, and ensure that operational findings are converted into agreed improvements and tracked actions. Co-design and stakeholder engagement
- Organize and operationally support living-lab co-design workshops with UNITAR, ETH Zurich, EPFL and UNICC, including participant coordination, agendas, materials, logistics and follow-up.
- Capture operational requirements and prototype feedback, maintain a structured requirements and decision log, and ensure that agreed changes are reflected in work plans and delivery priorities.
- Support regular engagement with regional and national networks, trainers, facilitators and program stakeholders so that the platform fits real workflows and diverse learner contexts. Risk, compliance and production transition
- Maintain the project risk and issue register, coordinate mitigation actions and support timely decisions on operational, methodological, technical and data-protection risks. Coordinate the preparation and follow-
Company and context
- ETEL-AI is an 18-month international innovation project that adapts Ethel, an open-source multilingual AI-assisted learning platform, for training programs delivered by international organizations.
- The project combines three interconnected work packages: platform adaptation and AI-assisted content generation
- psychometric quality assurance and fairness auditing
- and multilingual adaptation, pilot deployment and open-source release.
- The work is co-designed with UNITAR and prepared with UNICC for secure, scalable and sustainable production use.
- The project team brings together expertise in AI for education, design-led co-creation, psychometrics, multilingual large language models, international training delivery, cybersecurity and UN infrastructure. Job description
- As Project Coordinator, you will connect program and learner needs with the work of ETH Zurich, EPFL, UNICC, UNITAR, trainers, facilitators and specialist consultants.
- Your role is to make the overall program work coherently and to keep the consortium focused on operational impact. Project coordination and governance
- Serve as primary operational contact and governance focal point for project partners, and maintain effective communication across organizations, disciplines and time zones.
- Organize regular coordination meetings; prepare agendas, briefs and decision material; document decisions, actions, owners and deadlines; and follow through to completion.
Additional details
- 60%, Zurich, fixed-term
- The coordinator will serve as central operational point of contact and governance focal point, ensuring that program, pedagogical, research and technical activities remain aligned and that decisions, timelines and deliverables move forward. Project background
- The project combines three interconnected work packages: platform adaptation and AI-assisted content generation; psychometric quality assurance and fairness auditing; and multilingual adaptation, pilot deployment and open-source release.
- The project team brings together expertise in AI for education, design-led co-creation, psychometrics, multilingual large language models, international training delivery, cybersecurity and UN infrastructure.
- Your role is to make the overall program work coherently and to keep the consortium focused on operational impact. Project coordination and governance
- Track progress against the project milestones, provide concise status updates, identify emerging issues and escalate risks or delays to the appropriate project leads. Program and pilot integration
- Plan feedback and evaluation logistics for learners, trainers and program staff, and ensure that operational findings are converted into agreed improvements and tracked actions. Co-design and stakeholder engagement
- Support regular engagement with regional and national networks, trainers, facilitators and program stakeholders so that the platform fits real workflows and diverse learner contexts. Risk, compliance and production transition
- Maintain the project risk and issue register, coordinate mitigation actions and support timely decisions on operational, methodological, technical and data-protection risks. Coordinate the preparation and follow-
Notes and original content
- The coordinator will serve as central operational point of contact and governance focal point, ensuring that program, pedagogical, research and technical activities remain aligned and that decisions, timelines and deliverables move forward.
- Project background
- Job description
- Your role is to make the overall program work coherently and to keep the consortium focused on operational impact.
- Project coordination and governance
- Track progress against the project milestones, provide concise status updates, identify emerging issues and escalate risks or delays to the appropriate project leads.
- Program and pilot integration
- Plan feedback and evaluation logistics for learners, trainers and program staff, and ensure that operational findings are converted into agreed improvements and tracked actions.
- Co-design and stakeholder engagement
- Support regular engagement with regional and national networks, trainers, facilitators and program stakeholders so that the platform fits real workflows and diverse learner contexts.
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