Partnerships and Research Funding Manager — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- fixed-term
- Posted
- 3 days ago
Role overview
Partnerships and Research Funding Manager
80%-100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
The Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich builds robots that are soft, musculoskeletal, and partly alive.
- Partnerships and Research Funding Manager
- 80%-100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
Application process
- You structure the application, build budgets and work packages, and write the administrative sections.
- You manage our running projects.
- You own reporting, budget control, milestones, and deliverables, and you coordinate our European consortia.
- You work closely with our lab admin on these matters.
- You are our interface to the ETH Research Contracts Group, ETH Transfer, the Grants Office, and departmental controlling, and you prepare contracts and agreements.
- You support the scientific operation of the lab by coordinating activities across projects and keeping project documentation on track. Profile
- You are a proven relationship builder.
- You bring experience from business development, industry liaison, technology transfer, or corporate research collaborations, and you speak to company leadership as a peer.
Additional details
- 80%-100%, Zurich, fixed-term
- You represent our lab toward company leadership and funding bodies, you shape which collaborations we enter, and you work directly with the professor. Project background
- The goal is a stable funding base for the lab and a research team that can concentrate on research.
- You support the scientific operation of the lab by coordinating activities across projects and keeping project documentation on track.
- German is a plus, not a requirement. A role with genuine ownership.
- Direct access to research that companies want: artificial muscles, dexterous hands, biohybrid systems, and embodied AI.
Notes and original content
- You represent our lab toward company leadership and funding bodies, you shape which collaborations we enter, and you work directly with the professor.
- Project background
- Job description
- German is a plus, not a requirement.
- A role with genuine ownership.
- A young, intern
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